Middle College National Consortium

The21stCenturyTeacher.com is a new online community devoted solely to education in the 21st Century.

Passionate about the impact of technology integration on student success! 2006 TCEA Classroom Teacher of the Year. Carol Mortensen: Blogger. Author.

Online publication suite focused on public school education.

A regional organization of 15 Western states created to facilitate resource sharing among these states' higher education institutions. Offers student exchange programs, regional initiatives, and research and policy work.

OECD works with governments to provide a forum for exchange and helps to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change.

A San Francisco-based college access program that helps students finish high school and become the first in their families to graduate from college. The program takes a long term, individualized approach, making a 10 year commitment to each student, starting the summer after sixth grade through college graduation. The program serves more than 200 San Franciso-based students each year.

First in the Family: Your College Years is comprised of two products for sale: Audio slideshows that capture the voices of students interviewed by the Next Generation Press and a 124-page book that shares the stories of those interviewed and provides tips for high school graduates. These are intended for first-generation college students and the faculty and staff who guide them.

An Austin-based program that combines individualized case management, rigorous programming, a "do whatever it takes" philosophy, and performance management to address low-income students' unique academic needs and personal circumstances as they work to become the first in their families to go to college.

NADE seeks to improve the theory and practice of developmental education at all levels.

Research studies and other resources. Pathways To College Network is an "alliance of national organizations that advances college opportunity for underserved students by raising public awareness, supporting innovative research and promoting evidence-based policies and practices across the K-12 and higher education sectors."

Organization aimed at "building, strengthening, and empowering communities committed to college access and success..."

National College Access Network listserv

Member benefits include NCAN Daily E-Briefing and Discussion Listserv, Advisor Discussion Listserv, access to webinars, and more.

The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is part of the Insitute on Education and the Economy, Teacher's College, Columbia University. From their site: "CCRC"s mission is to conduct research on major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students."

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

As posted on eLobbyist.com. This House bill requires the state to review and make recommendations on "Early College High Schools" for the state of Mississippi.

This research is why I was encouraging host ambassadors to upload their pictures and profiles--they can be far more successful than I at engaging their peers in Polilogue-learning prior to the Conference.

Very interesting experiment by Packard Foundation to create a '"see through"filing cabinet' wiki open to the world. What would be the benefit to a class or school or educational nonprofit doing something like this?

"Unlike most traditional academic conferences, sessions at an unconference don't consist of one or three or five people delivering papers to an audience. Instead, they might feature project demonstrations, discussions, creative work sessions, or other formats that build on the knowledge and expertise of whoever attends. For the Texas THATCamp (and I think this is fairly typical at others), participants posted session ideas beforehand on the website, followed by a 45-minute scheduling process as THATCamp began. Topic headings generated by those initial session ideas were posted on the walls of a large meeting room, and participants circulated through the space to meet up with others interested in similar topics. After some productive chaos (which admittedly tested my structure- and schedule-loving personality a bit) the group developed a schedule of sessions that represented not only a variety of interests but also the desire to cluster certain topics into tracks. Like any conference, I frequently wanted to be in two places at once - which I see as one marker of the event's success."

Blog on high school economics and 4th grade collaboration on Lawn Boy book that focuses on economic principles that guide a young boy's lawn mowing practice into a money maker. I like that because it takes sophisticated principles and presents them within an interesting story that grabs 4th graders and high school students. Then through a collaboration online between the two age groups, they discuss the book together through a series of Skype interviews/interactions.

Great presentation on how to use Adobe Connect for synchronous learning by K-8 students and Encarde, a way to communicate with students and parents and keep them responding to deadlines on projects without using email, that most people read late or not at all. This virtual model could also work for SLI.

"Corporations use TWO process form, BOTH missing entirely from dowdy lazy sloppy dishonest (Harvard) universities; a) process weaves----emediated process flows PUNCTUATED with mass workshop EVENTS b) pulsed systems---rhythms of engagement with disengagement, sameness with difference, local with global---so that mere addition of connectedness is not allowed to destroy all creativity. "