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New White Paper on Technology and SLOs from Core Education’s President

Download a new white paper written by Core Education’s president, Kimberly Fleming, PhD: https://www9.performancematters.com/?page_id=1308 Following is from the press release about the white paper: Over the last 15 years, Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) have gained tremendous momentum in K-12 education. In several states, including Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Read more

By coreeducation, 13 yearsMay 30, 2013 ago

Coursera to Offer Free Teacher Development Classes

Coursera, one of the larger MOOC’s (massive open online courses), will begin offering free online teacher development courses this summer. And for a set of courses that are just beginning, a rather impressive list of traditional universities including the College of Education at University of Washington and John Hopkins University Read more

By coreeducation, 13 years ago

Online Communities & Resources

Common Core Open Resources

As the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) moves ever closer, debate over them certainly has not slowed, yet that does not mean that the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and others, like the National Math and Science Initiative, aren’t doing their best Read more

By coreeducation, 13 years ago

School Reform & Leadership

Ten Innovators at the 2013 Ed Tech Industry Summit

The Education Division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announces winners and finalists in its Innovation Incubator Program. The program was held during the annual flagship Ed Tech Industry Summit, May 5-7, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Ten products and services were featured during the event, Read more

By coreeducation, 13 years ago

Online Communities & Resources

TNTP Launches Blog

Over the last 15 years, TNTP, a national nonprofit committed to ending the injustice of educational inequality, has shared what they have learned about education policy and effective teaching mainly through publications like “The Irreplaceables.” Recently, they have launched a TNTP blog. TNTP hopes to use the blog to offer Read more

By coreeducation, 13 years ago

Online Communities & Resources

Making the Case for College and Career Readiness

A newly updated and released website, The Future Ready Project, provides college and career readiness advocates with the information, strategies, messages and tools they need to effectively make the case for the college- and career- ready agenda in their states and communities. With customizable resources and fact sheets, stakeholders may Read more

By coreeducation, 13 years ago

Online Communities & Resources

MOOC for Educators: “Digital Learning Transition”

The Alliance for Excellent Education and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation are offering a first-of-its-kind online course for school district leaders. Last month, the Alliance for Excellent Education and Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University opened enrollment for a first-of-its-kind Massive Online Open Course for Read more

By coreeducation, 14 years ago

Online Communities & Resources USCEE

New Resources for 21st Century Learning Design

In 2012, Microsoft announced a new professional development program called 21st Century Learning Design (21CLD), formerly known as “LEAP21”, that helps teachers build innovative pedagogical practices and develop resources for designing learning activities that foster higher order skills. It includes: practice-based professional development, so new ideas are used immediately in Read more

By coreeducation, 14 yearsFebruary 15, 2013 ago

Online Communities & Resources Professional Learning

New Spotlights from Education Week

Education Week Spotlights contain essential news and commentary on the big issues. These Spotlights provide the information you need to understand the most talked-about topics. Each spotlight contains seven articles. Download the Latest Spotlights for Free! Deeper Learning: Applying brain studies to teaching students with disabilities Dual-language classes offering instruction Read more

By coreeducation, 14 yearsOctober 16, 2012 ago

Online Communities & Resources School Reform & Leadership

What Works Clearinghouse: School Turnarounds

A recent report from the U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low-performing schools — a process commonly referred to as “turnaround.” The report, Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools, makes four recommendations based on current research into school turnaround efforts: Schools Read more

By coreeducation, 14 years ago

Online Communities & Resources Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Unlocking Student Effort

TNTP, a national nonprofit organization working to ensure that all students get excellent teachers, recently released a first-of-its-kind resource on effective teaching written by and for practicing teachers. The resource, Unlocking Student Effort , is a paper that includes five essays written by the winners of TNTP’s 2012 Fishman Prize Read more

By coreeducation, 14 years ago

Online Communities & Resources

Free Webinar: The Comprehensive Assessment Consortia

Two state consortia—Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium—have made great strides to develop new assessment systems ready for use in two years. Over the summer, for example, they released sample items and tasks and are putting together teams of educators Read more

By coreeducation, 14 yearsOctober 2, 2012 ago

Online Communities & Resources

Should Teachers Be Allowed to Sell Their Lesson Plans?

Last week Andrew Rotherham from Time magazine wrote about whether teachers should be able to sell their lesson plans. He talks about kindergarten teacher Deanna Jump, who has made more than one million dollars selling her lesson plans online. That is what teachers are looking for, since the new Common Core Read more

By coreeducation, 14 yearsSeptember 27, 2012 ago

Teacher Preparation

Holding Teacher Preparation Programs Accountable

The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) is offering a free webinar to discuss teacher preparation improvement and accountability: Teacher Preparation Program Evaluation for Accountability and Improvement Thursday, September 27, 2012 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time During the past decade, teachers have been increasingly held accountable Read more

By coreeducation, 14 yearsSeptember 9, 2012 ago

School Reform & Leadership

Implementing the Common Core

With the new school year just starting, the majority of educators across the country are hard at work implementing the new K-12 Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The new standards have sparked a range of resources and tools to support CCSS-aligned instruction, as well as drawn a lot of media Read more

By coreeducation, 14 yearsSeptember 5, 2012 ago

Online Communities & Resources Teacher Evaluation

Hope Street Group Launches the Teacher Evaluation Playbook

The Hope Street Group, a national, nonpartisan non-profit organization that focuses on bringing together political leadership with non-governmental innovators in business, nonprofit organizations, etc. to develop creative solutions for America’s current economic problems, has launched a new website—The Teacher Evaluation Playbook. The site serves as a guide for implementing strategies Read more

By coreeducation, 14 years ago

Kim Fleming has experience working at the school, district, state, and university levels. She earned her PhD in Teacher Education and Professional Development from the University of Maryland and her Masters in Teacher Leadership from Johns Hopkins University. She has worked with 24 school districts and 28 institutions of higher education as professional development schools facilitator and alternative teacher preparation program specialist. In addition, she has worked with four state education agencies, several school districts, and many nonprofit and for profit organizations as a consultant. Fleming is an accomplished grant writer and presenter. She has published numerous publications and book chapters.