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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Impero Software Announces Philip Walters as its New Chairman

techlearning

Walters, of London, brings the wealth of knowledge and expertise he has acquired during his more than 40 years in the global education marketplace to Impero as it enters into a new phase of growth. In 2010, Walters was awarded membership in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to educational publishing.

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How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners

The Hechinger Report

Personalization is a growing focus for policy development, technology applications and educational marketing. Today’s education and cognitive scientists affirm that every learner has a dynamic profile of strengths and challenges that impacts their learning journey. The idea itself is not new.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. An intervention agent must help to hire and train babysitters, respite providers, in-home education service staff and job coaches.

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