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"Welcome to the new Oyez: devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work."

"NSBA's School Law Issues pages provide resources, news, and court decisions on a range of legal issues for public schools. Most news items and recent cases are from NSBA's free school law e-newsletter, Legal Clips."

"What will it take to make teacher evaluation a useful tool for improving teaching and learning?"

"The Montgomery County Public Schools Study Circles Program helps schools address the challenges posed by cultural and racial differences by bringing together parents, teachers, and students from different backgrounds. Trained facilitators help participants talk, build relationships, develop a better understanding of the challenges, and plan action steps to help all students succeed."

"This collection of books provides readers with background information, research and practices related to Equity and equity issues. Topics include cultural identity and racial consciousness, cultural patterns and culturally responsive teaching. The books explore various obstacles to academic success and offer models and strategies to overcome the obstacles."

"Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. "

"Welcome to the CEO Forum's Interactive School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart, a self-assessment tool designed to provide schools with the information they need to better integrate technology into their educational process. Here, you can complete an online, multiple-choice questionnaire that will provide you with instant feedback on how well your school is doing in this process. The STaR Chart identifies and defines four school profiles ranging from the "Early Tech" school with little or no technology to the "Target Tech" school that provides a model for the integration and innovative use of education technology. The STaR Chart is not intended to be a measure of any particular school's technology and readiness, but rather to serve a benchmark against which every school can assess and track its own progress."

"Here are ten ideas I have learned in the 30 years since I became a principal. "

"This web site provides information about Adaptive Schools: what they are, why they affect student learning, and how they develop essential capacities for sustained growth in achievement. Our Mission The mission of the Center for Adaptive Schools is to help schools develop the technical and social resources to realize continuing student improvement. Steady improvement in student learning is happening in a new kind of professional culture within schools. Sustaining these collaborative, results-focused working relationships requires leaders at all levels of the organization to develop new ways of seeing their work and new templates and tools for engaging collective energies toward common goals."

"Through this document, I am trying to accomplish two things. First, I am attempting to weave together two sets of standards for school leaders, the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders (2008) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) (2009). Second, I am trying to map technology tools/applications onto those standards. My hope is that this will become a guidance document for anyone who works with sitting and aspiring school leaders and who wants to better bring together the fields of educational leadership and educational technology."

Darling-Hammond

"The efficacy construct refers to peoples' beliefs about and confidence in their abilities to attain success in their actions. The purpose of this research is to advance the study of school administrators' efficacy through a unique model and measure designed to target the confidence of school administrators in performing a variety of leadership/management tasks. An instrument was created to measure school administrators' efficacy levels, based on the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) Standards. A sample of 367 early career principals and principal trainees was surveyed. Through factor analysis, eight dimensions of school administrator efficacy were derived. Based on Cronbach's Alpha, the instrument has high reliability; thus, this instrument can serve as a consistent tool in evaluating school administrators' efficacy levels."

BNET provides working professionals with the tools, advice, and insight they need to succeed in today's workplace. This isn't a site for those who merely punch the clock: It's for people who are committed to nurturing their own excellence, who believe in the meaning of work, and who know that a fulfilling career is an excellent way to make personal ambitions come true.

"Teachers are discovering that informally grouping and regrouping students in a variety of ways throughout the school day can make a teacher's job easier and students more productive. This teaching strategy is called flexible grouping. "