"Model and facilitate best practices with administrative leadership for supporting personalized learning."

"ISSUE: Many educators and advisory groups emphasize high standards as an important factor in improving the quality of education for all students. As a result, schools and districts are looking at ways to develop a high-quality curriculum that is based on standards. An important starting point for this effort is a carefully thought-out curriculum framework that reflects the standards and goals for which the education community is willing to be held accountable. Developing a standards-based curriculum requires changes in the way teachers teach and schools are run, so care must be taken to build capacity for all educators and to provide adequate time for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the curriculum. The curriculum-development process also should provide opportunities for reflection and revision so that the curriculum is updated and improved on a regular basis. "

"Resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs."

"Educational and Assistive Technology to support Universal Access and Universal Design for Learning"

UDL Spotlight aims to * Recognize and celebrate implementations of UDL features -whether or not they are called by the UDL name * Educate web visitors about UDL by making explicit connections between the featured work and the UDL Guidelines-Version 1.0 * Stimulate conversation* about what constitutes "best practices." * Foster new UDL-based relationships, partnerships, and innovations Each featured Spotlight illustrates some of the CAST UDL Guidelines. Taken as a group, the Spotlights build a vision for a future of learning environments that are truly universal.

"What is Universal Design for Learning? "

"Universal Design for Learning Resources"

"...If the focus of an educational system is student learning, as most mission statements claim, then leaders must compare the reality of their employment of technology with their stated intention."

"he old-fashioned view of leadership is that leaders are marked out for leadership from early on in their lives, and that if you're not a born leader, there's little that you can do to become one. That's not the way we see it now. The modern view is that through patience, persistence and hard work, you can be a truly effective leader, just as long as you make the effort needed. The articles in this section (which are drawn from our How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You course) help you develop your leadership skills so that you, too, can become an exceptional leader."

The School 2.0 eToolkit is designed to help schools, districts, and communities develop a common education vision and explore how that vision can be supported by technology.

...for Development and Implementation BY: Allan A. Glatthorn

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