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Anne Bubnic

Mary Ann Wolf: The Importance of Teacher Professional Development - 0 views

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ARRA_Education ATTAIN technology_funding stimulus

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  • ATTAIN builds upon the successful education technology programs that began with No Child Left Behind and focuses more on systemic school redesign through the innovative use of technolog
  • A stand-alone workshop has less than a 5% chance of actually changing teacher practice in the classroom. However, if you add on-going and embedded professional development, provide professional learning communities where teachers interact with their colleagues, and ensure on-going support from coaches and administrative staff, the chance of really affecting teaching and learning increases dramatically -- to nearly 90%
  • y using online resource hubs and other tools for collaboration, i.e. blogs and discussion boards, and including virtual or in-school coaching and mentoring, schools, districts, and states are beginning to see gains in teaching quality and student achievement. The greatest successes are seen with professional development that includes high-quality content, is tailored to the needs of students, takes advantage of the assets of technology, and is embedded in professional learning communities to enable teachers to actively participate.
  • Anne Bubnic on 29 Apr 09
     
    Earlier this month, the Senate introduced their bill to reauthorize the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001 -- The Achievement Through Technology and Innovation Act (ATTAIN). ATTAIN builds upon the successful education technology programs that began with No Child Left Behind and focuses more on systemic school redesign through the innovative use of technology. I am pleased to see that there is an increased focus on teachers and funding for sustainable and ongoing professional development.
Anne Bubnic

ARRA Opportunities to Build & Support the Use of State Longitudinal Data Systems - 0 views

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ARRA_Education competitive_grant data_system assessment stimulus

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  • Anne Bubnic on 28 Apr 09
     
    10 page document detailing funds available to promote the use of data statewide. $250 Million for State Longitudinal Data Systems. $48.6 billion to improve the collection and use of longtitudinal data. Phase II: Changing the Culture around data use and maximizing states' investments in longitudinal data systems.
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ARRA/ Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems program - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 28 Apr 09
     
    The Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems program provides grants to State Education Agencies to enable them to design, develop, and implement statewide, longitudinal data systems to efficiently and accurately manage, analyze, disaggregate and use individual student data. As provided for under ARRA, funding provided under this competition is to be used for Statewide data systems that, in addition to K-12 data, also include postsecondary and workforce information
Anne Bubnic

Schools get stimulus money to bring technology into classrooms - 0 views

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ARRA_Education Title_IID technology_funding stimulus

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  • Anne Bubnic on 27 Apr 09
     
    More federal stimulus money is proposed to flow into local school systems, this time focused on bringing technology to classrooms.\nTennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and Commissioner of Education Timothy Webb on Tuesday announced more than $5.8 million in Title IID Education Technology funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Stimulating EdTech Investments: How To Maximize Stimulus Dollars - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 02 May 09
     
    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contains several pots of money slated for educational technology. Those funding sources could be used to help K-12 schools to use new digital tools to improve teaching and learning. Although this webinar took place already (Apr 30), it is archived and can be viewed upon registration.
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EdStimulus.org - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 04 May 09
     
    The goal of this site is to provide information and access to events, information, and discussion areas relating to the educational portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), with the specific goal of helping to facilitate a dialog that will promote the best long-term uses of the funds.
Anne Bubnic

Nation Can't Afford Short-Sighted ARRA Spending (Opinion) - 0 views

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ARRA_education opinion Broadband_Technology stimulus

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  • Contrast that with the potential double-whammy from the nearly $8 billion dedicated for building broadband. First, laying fiber is a construction project in itself, so that means jobs right away. But more importantly, it holds the promise of a long-term economic payoff by attracting companies to out-of-the-way towns; it's also a driver for the creation of small businesses.
  • Preach patience. The first funding window for broadband projects started in April, and there will be more opportunities for money through mid-2010. The same lag time holds true for high-speed rail, electronic health records and green technology. These projects might not be built out until 2015. Most of the public doesn't realize this. Someone must tell them.
  • Anne Bubnic on 08 May 09
     
    Shovel-ready projects - or not?
Anne Bubnic

A School Windfall That Set Off a Whirlwind of Controversy - 0 views

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  • Morris said that schools had to hurry so that the plans could be brought to the school board before unrolling any major changes, such as changing the school calendar, which could take time to put together before next school year. The budget deadline is June 30. No final decisions have been made, the school board has yet to weigh in, and it is unclear when the final plans will be chosen
  • The teachers union plans to file a charge that San Diego Unified violated labor law when patching together the plans, alleging that it dodged the union on issues that must be bargained, such as how many days teachers work. It contends that such changes can only be brought to the union, not directly to teachers, just as individual schools cannot ask teachers to change their salaries without going to the bargaining table.
  • While Grier has earned praise for his fast pace and passion for change, that same speediness has sparked criticism for failing to get input from parents and teachers on his plans. And with millions in stimulus money at stake, those arguments are even more pressing, especially as tension builds between the stimulus goals of doing new things and saving jobs that already exist.
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  • "There needs to be community input and participation. That doesn’t happen extremely quickly," said school board member John Lee Evans. He added, "It is a quandary in terms of, 'Here is some quick stimulus money to hold things together, and we want you to be innovative, and we want your ideas to be well thought out and based on research.' There are a lot of contradictions there."
  • Every principal there was excited about the possibility of doing something different," Allen said. "But they were concerned about getting the buy-in on the ideas."
  • Technology is also touted in plans from Lincoln, Crawford and San Diego High, several of which push for digital whiteboards and laptops for every student. Other ideas include adding more counselors, nurses and social workers to schools around Crawford, emphasizing writing at all the schools that lead into San Diego High, and creating a district-run middle school that leads into Lincoln, where many surrounding middle schools are charter schools that are independently run with public funding
  • Both the Lincoln and Crawford plans include extending the school year for four more weeks, which costs money because schools must pay teachers more for the extra time. Some reformers like the idea because it gives children more time in the classroom, which has been shown to benefit disadvantaged students who tend to backslide during breaks. But changing schedules is logistically tricky and sometimes unpopular with parents.
  • Parents charged with overseeing federal money complain that they were not included in the plans that were hastily drafted by schools last week. Teachers and their union say the superintendent has sidestepped them. The school district refused to share the draft plans with the media on Friday. And some of the brief plans hashed out by schools, obtained from other sources by voiceofsandiego.org, raise a barrage of new questions, from whether schools can mandate that teachers stay in one area to curb turnover to how lengthening the school year would work.
  • Anne Bubnic on 28 May 09
     
    This article about San Diego Unified School District paints an honest picture of the classic struggle that many school districts and counties will face in trying to get together an Economic Stimulus action plan so quickly that favors school reform ideas put forth by Arne Duncan. Union negotiations, feedback from teachers, parents and community will all stall the process.
Anne Bubnic

Initial Guidance on State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Title 1 and IDEA - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 27 Apr 09
     
    The U.S. Department of Education released a new PowerPoint overview of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on March 24. While much of the information we have already covered, there are some new points that are of importance to the charter community.
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Economic Stimulus and Powering Through The Recession - 0 views

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ARRA_Education stimulus K12 Title_I IDEA ESEA funding

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  • Anne Bubnic on 26 Apr 09
     
    What will President Obama's stimulus package mean for K-12 budgets? How can you make best use of federal dollars to protect instruction and extend achievement amid cutbacks at the state and local levels?
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Stimulus Solutions from PCI Education - 0 views

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ARRA_Education funding IDEA Title_I assistive_technology

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  • Anne Bubnic on 25 Apr 09
     
    Special ed products, struggling learners, autism, Developmental disabilities, ELL/ESL
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ARRA Stabilization Funding Roundtable for K-12 Education [Webinar] - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 02 May 09
     
    Roundtable topic: Accountability, Transparency, Workforce Management and Optimizing Federal Dollars. This webinar will take place on May 12, 2009. 2:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM PDT.
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ARRA Education Fund Finder - 0 views

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ARRA_Education Title_I IDEA SFSF stimulus

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  • Anne Bubnic on 09 May 09
     
    Find your state's recently released allocations for ESEA Title I Grants to LEAs, IDEA Parts B and C, Rehabilitation Act State Grants, Independent Living State Grants, and Services for Older Individuals Who Are Blind, as well as your school district's allocations for Title I, Part A, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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$3.1-billion economic stimulus windfall offers a chance to reform California schools, t... - 0 views

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ARRA_Education stimulus teacher_jobs school_reform special_education Vocational_rehab funding

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  • Anne Bubnic on 25 Apr 09
     
    As California received billions of dollars Friday to stave off widespread teacher layoffs, the state's highest elected education official pledged to reform schools, aligning academic standards with other states, rewarding teachers who work in the most challenging classrooms and improving student assessments.
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Stimulus money may fund summer school, teacher pay - 0 views

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ARRA_Education stimulus technology funding_ideas professional_development economic_stimulus education charter_schools

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  • You can identify your best teachers and pay them to coach their colleagues who are having trouble," Duncan said in prepared remarks. "You may have to scale this down after two years, but it can really help your younger teachers get up to speed."Duncan also recommended adding afternoons, weekends and summer days to the school calendar: "Our school day, week and year is too short as it is. Many kids just need more time on task," he said.
  • Anne Bubnic on 25 Apr 09
     
    Education Secretary Arne Duncan has some suggestions for how schools can spend their windfall from the economic stimulus law, including summer school and extra pay for teachers to coach struggling colleagues. The nation's schools will get an unprecedented amount of money - about $100 billion, double the amount of education spending under President George W. Bush - over the two-year life of the new stimulus law.
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Saving and Creating Jobs and Reforming Education [PDF] - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 24 Apr 09
     
    In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity- it is a pre-requisite. The countries that out-teach us today will out-compete us tomorrow.
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