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Kevin Forgard

Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Putting Teachers in the Driver's Seat - 0 views

  • A professional development coach says teachers themselves are the best PD resource.
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    Teacher development through the creation of communities
Kevin Forgard

Where AP teachers go to learn what they teach - St. Petersburg Times - 0 views

  • survey of 1,000 AP teachers released by the Fordham Institute in A
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    Article on an AP training program. Refers to study by Fordham Institute.
Yan Suo

Mod 4: Teacher Verification - 0 views

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    PASS, teacher verification.
Kevin Forgard

Views: Getting Serious About College Readiness - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • A handful of states have taken action toward improving college readiness -- notably Arkansas, California, Indiana, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas, all of which have at least established specific state policy agendas for dealing with the problem
  • There is simply not the critical convergence of thinking around various elements of the readiness challenge that is necessary for all interests to establish or commit to a bold action agenda.
  • n other words, frequently the most difficult task is defining the problem clearly and in such ways that all of the key parties embrace the definition. The solutions are more apparent when the definition is clarified.
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  • Improving college readiness depends on strengthening high school graduation requirements and diplomas, but states and higher education systems cannot delay dealing with the readiness problem until these graduation requirements rise to meet college-readiness standards
  • We must specify what readiness means in those essential skills that every person needs to learn further in school and at work -- reading, writing and math.
  • Sixth, postsecondary education and the public schools need to recognize that meeting the college-readiness challenge will center on setting specific, measurable performance standards in key learning skills and having more students achieve them.
  • uniformly communicating them to all high schools in a state.
  • College readiness will be improved only when high school classroom teachers receive clear and concise signals about standards, backed by all of postsecondary education in their state
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    D. Spence article on CR
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    David Spence article succiently summarizing the issue and providing state policy suggestions. Good to use as a comparative framework
Kevin Forgard

AFT - Publications - America Educator - Spring 2008 - There's a Hole in State Standards - 0 views

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    Article explaining the need for instructional support in implementing CR standards
Yan Suo

College-readiness Performance Assessment System | EPIC Online - 0 views

  • assessment designed to track the development of the Key Cognitive Strategies (KCS) or thinking skills necessary for college-readiness and success.
  • measure the KCS through rich performance tasks that teachers embed within existing curricula
  • interconnected dimensions: content knowledge and KCS.
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    C-PAS is designed to simultaneously track the development of student Key Cognitive Strategies and student content knowledge.
Kevin Forgard

The Early Mathematics Placement Testing Program - 0 views

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    Ohio's assessment program to dianostically inform teachers, parents, and students on their college readiness level
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