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"Universal Design for Learning Resources"

"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

"WizFolio is a web based reference manager for researchers and scientists to efficiently manage their research and academic papers. An intelligent locate PDF engine easily retrieves PDFs from more than 500 top open access journals. The performance can be enhanced by linking the engine to your library resources. Cite as you write your scholarly work is easy when you can manage bibliography and organize references with a powerful citation tool. You can format bibliography and customize the citation style on-the-fly."

One size fits all mandates and their dangers. Alfie Kohn

Statewide teaching strategies unveiled.

A hot topic!

New book coming out from ASCD. Looks like some good questions being addressed, very timely for our new CURR course. PG

Design Your Educational Philosophy To Guide Your Decisions

Ricki Sabia on Universal Design for Learning: Practice and Policy

"Based on current research on teacher efficacy and best practices, the plans have been designed to facilitate both school planning and district level planning. Each plan includes detailed, user-friendly guidance to help professional development committee members, administrators, teachers and other members of the school community understand the elements of high quality professional development. "

"The Johns Hopkins Digital Portfolio (DP) is a Web-based assessment and presentation application that allows users to demonstrate their capabilities and achievements in relation to a pre-determined set of principles or standards."

"Effective teachers are the key to student success. Yet our school systems treat all teachers as interchangeable parts, not professionals. Excellence goes unrecognized and poor performance goes unaddressed. This indifference to performance disrespects teachers and gambles with students' lives."

Peer Review Undergoing Revitalization An old concept that calls for teachers to assess their own is gaining traction as evaluation comes under the spotlight.