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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

2004; Vescio, Ross, and Adams, 2008 ; The Wallace Foundation, 2012): A vision of academic success for all students based on high expectations. 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration. 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ). A safe and cooperative climate for learning.

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Transforming Schools and Outcomes by Using a Culturally Responsive Curriculum

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He also believes the arts are especially important in a district like Mount Vernon because many of the students turned out to be “twice gifted,” despite having received standardized assessment scores that did not reflect their proficiencies. And, this sort of culturally relevant approach extends beyond the students themselves.

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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

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Active professionals within this network have put on numerous GBL workshops for interested CUNY faculty members and have developed both board and paper (e.g. card) games, as well as digital game-based learning (DGBL) teaching and learning environments, including a DGBL learning management system designed by Bisz and Crocco, called.

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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

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Prior to that, he founded Provost Systems an online learning platform acquired by Edison Learning in 2008. Plan and Align The work began in May 2015 with a diagnostic readiness assessment. When the staff came back to school that fall, the workshops began. The ”Plan and Align” phase was complete before the end of the school year.

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Live Thursday Dec. 16th with Writer Alfie Kohn (note early time)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In addition to speaking at staff development seminars and keynoting national education conferences on a regular basis, he conducts workshops for teachers and administrators on various topics. His many articles on education include a dozen widely reprinted essays in Phi Delta Kappan from 1991 to 2008.

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Data, Policies, and Plans for the Journey to Equity

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Access to gifted/talented programs and advanced courses is also unevenly distributed in regard to race, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores reveal similar inequities in regard to student outcomes. In 2015, he served as the president of Region 7 of the Association of California School Administrators.

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The Use of Technology for Reading Acquisition

Saving Socrates

Now I have confess, I made a major mistake (ok this is nothing new and definitely not my first nor last) by not taking the full Columbia Readers and Writers Workshop while at TC. I hope to rectify this in the near future, but since 2008, reading acquisition has become something on the forefront of my mind.