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Douglas B. Reeves is the founder of the The Leadership and Learning Center and author of 30 books and many articles on leadership and organizational effectiveness, particularly in the school system.

By Richard DuFour, published in Educational Leadership, May 2004, V. 61, N. 8, p 6-11. Educational Leadership is a publication of ASCD. Author discusses the concepts of Professional Learning Communities, the ideas behind their core principles and how the principles guide schools' efforts to sustain the professional learning community model until it becomes inherent in a school's culture.

Formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ASCD is an international educational leadership organization. Members are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members. Two key publications include: SmartBriefs, a free subscription with daily information on top stories in K-12 education and Educational Leadership, a monthly publication for ASCD members.

"The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board provides leadership and coordination for the Texas higher education system." Agency reports are available to download from the site.

In innovative urban schools, educators work together to find solutions to the perennial problem of getting struggling students to do homework.

Grant funded partnership formed to research and provide national leadership to advance knowledge about the employment and earnings benefits associated with postsecondary education.

"Ineffective use of technology happens because even when given the opportunity- some over burdened teachers shy away from working hard enough to understand how emerging tools can be used for powerful learning. Ineffective use of technology is a teacher problem, a PD problem, a leadership problem, a time problem, a systemic problem, a culture problem - not a computer problem."

By David T. Conley, published in Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) - Illinois, Update Newsletter, spring 2009, 20(2). This article was one of the assigned readings for MCNC's Principals and Directors meeting, Feb 2010.

The following excerpt says so much to me..."goal state is initially only partially described" (every time!); the need to "scaffold the work of leaders" while "making a more improvisational style of collaboration possible". These phrases express truth and performance goals for me. "Her research on leadership in creative collaboration online explores how people can collaborate across distance on projects where the goal state is initially only partially described. Amy and her students are creating tools both to support existing creative collaborative practice by scaffolding the work of leaders, and also to try to transform that practice by making a more improvisational style of collaboration possible."

Organization founded to provide long-term leadership and support the progressive movement.

Resources on College and Career Readiness (CCR) Act Pilot, including Conley's Comprehensive Model. These resources are on the site for Office of Community College Research and Leadership at the College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reports on the Illinois College and Career Readiness Act and other resources available on the site.

Tony Wagner is a first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. He consults widely to schools, districts and foundations around the world.

Home Google site for I-Lab SLI 2011-2012

MCNC Edgecombe Early College High School students are making boats out of cardboard and learning about business models and investments in the process.

Marrying the four Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity) to the three Rs to lead to 21st Century schools, teachers, students, and graduates.

"Lead Your School provides school leaders with the tools, training and support to rapidly correct areas of concern and leverage areas of strength."