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Lauren Parren

Tom Vander Ark: Flex Schools Personalize, Enhance and Accelerate Learning - 6 views

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flex personalize online pathways Rowland blended instruction

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  • Jason Finley on 09 Feb 12
     
    There are four big benefits of flex models: Competency-based: Students progress based on demonstrated mastery; they use cohort groups and teams when and where they are helpful. Customized experience: Flex models make it easy to customize the experience for each student. Portable and flexible: Students can take a flex school on the road for a family vacation or for a work or community-based learning experience. Productive operations: Flex models have the potential for more productive staffing and facilities solutions.
  • Lauren Parren on 14 Feb 12
     
    Lacks detail about HOW flex learning actually works, but the basic concept is appealing.
Jason Finley

Commissioner Vilasec School Choice Memo - 2 views

education.vermont.gov/..._Vilaseca_on_School_Choice.pdf

school choice

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  • Jason Finley on 06 Feb 12
     
    Important to know. What is your school doing to define its brand? Can you articulate in a sentence or two what your school is all about and has to offer students?As this progresses things may get even more competitive. How many students does your school need to lose to translate to reduction in staff? 10:1? 7:1?Under the progressive possibilities what would losing 35 or 40 students mean to your staffing, programs, and academic offerings?
  • Jason Finley on 06 Feb 12
     
    Under this interpretation, if a school has opted to limit transfers to the fullest extent permitted by law, the 5% or 10 students limit is calculated based on the school's current full 9-12 enrollment, which excludes those who have already transferred, but have not yet graduated. In determining how many transfer slots are available in any given year, the number is the lesser of 5% of the then-enrolled students, or 10. And this standard is cumulative over a four-year period. For example, a high school with 180 presently-enrolled students may limit transfers (during the following year) to 9 students (the lesser of 9 (5% of 180) or 10). In the following year, if enrollment at the school is 171, and if all of the 9 remained in other schools, the transfer limit for students participating for the first time would be 8, for a total of 17.
Adam Rosenberg

Open Educational Resources (OER) - 1 views

Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from Around the World: http://www.oercommons.org/

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Adam Rosenberg

Gooru - 1 views

Gooru is an online study tool that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover fifth grade through high school math and science to...

good teaching blended instruction

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Adam Rosenberg

Stanford History Education Group - 2 views

Projects, curricula, & other resources for teaching History: http://sheg.stanford.edu/

good teaching

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Adam Rosenberg

Educational Technology Guy - 3 views

Free resources for teachers, educational ideas and tips, educational topics, personal learning networks, project based learning, Google, Evernote, Discovery Education and more: http://educationalte...

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Jason Finley

Education Endowment Fund - 3 views

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school change innovation research Data-driven decision making

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  • Jason Finley on 02 Feb 12
     
    "Based on a review of the best educational research, the Toolkit is an independent and accessible resource which helps teachers and schools identify the most promising and cost-effective ways to support their pupils.Existing evidence shows that how money is spent in schools is at least as important as how much is spent."
Lauren Parren

Good to Know - Google - 1 views

www.google.com/goodtoknow

google security privacy cybersafety digital citizenship data safety isafe

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  • Lauren Parren on 29 Jan 12
     
    Google's move to a new privacy policy includes information about staying safe on line and how Google will use your data.  Probably good to share with staff and students.
Jason Finley

Vermont Communities in a Digital Age - 2 views

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conference technology

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  • Jason Finley on 28 Jan 12
     
    Vermont Communities in a Digital Age brings community leaders and learners together to share what they have discovered so far. Take away lots of new ideas about how digital tools and broadband can be used in your community to: create jobs, reinvent your schools, attract visitors, improve civic involvement, and enliven your community.Thursday, February 16th; 9am - 4:30pmVermont Technical College, Randolph Vermont
chuckscranton

Home page | Stanford History Education Group - 3 views

sheg.stanford.edu

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  • chuckscranton on 27 Jan 12
     
    Projects Our projects range from the newest ways to use digital technologies in history instruction to how students collaborating across national borders formulate broader interpretations of the world. People Our staff comprises full-time researchers, former history teachers now pursuing their PhDs, and post-doctoral researchers from the U.S. and abroad.
Adam Rosenberg

Freshman Interdisciplinary Team - 6 views

http://www.aasaconnect.com/All-Success-Stories?id=28

school change thematic instruction 9th grade transition

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Adam Rosenberg

Climbing Toward School Improvement - 5 views

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012201260311

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Jason Finley

NESSC Conference: High School Redesign in Action - 4 views

www.newenglandssc.org/conference

conference

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  • Jason Finley on 27 Jan 12
     
    New England Secondary School Consortium's third annual conference for secondary educators to share success stories, exchange best practices, and build momentum for innovations that will prepare all students for success in the colleges, careers, and communities of the 21st century.
  • Jason Finley on 27 Jan 12
     
    WHEN: Thursday + Friday, March 22-23, 2012 WHERE: Four Points by Sheraton in Norwood, Massachusetts WHO: Educators and teams from high schools, charter schools, and technical schools across New England engaged in school improvement COST: $75 per person (includes appetizers, beverages, breakfast, lunch, and materials) PROGRAM: Click HERE to read the session descriptions
Jason Finley

Rubenstein School Lecture Series : University of Vermont - 0 views

www.uvm.edu/lectures

conference sustainability UVM Peter McConville

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  • Jason Finley on 27 Jan 12
     
    Education for Sustainability - A Public Lecture/Learning Series - Spring 2012" ...questions addressed in this lecture series seek to: clarify what we know about educational approaches to learning that can move people to authentically embrace sustainability (what is "education for sustainability"), share best practices and new approaches to engaging with the values and substance of sustainability (updates from the field), and provide opportunities for practitioners and educators to evaluate, integrate, and create new approaches to education for sustainability (learning next steps)."
  • Jason Finley on 27 Jan 12
     
    Series ScheduleFeb 2: Lecture: A conversation with Bill McKibben about educational priorities in the 21st CenturyFeb 9: Panel: New concepts in engaged education for sustainability (Poleman, Kolan, Nordstrom)Feb 16: Lecture: Greg SmithFeb 23: Lecture: Taylor RickettsMar 1: Workshop: Understanding major themes in Education for SustainabilityMar 15: Panel: Student Voices on SustainabilityMar 22: Lecture: TBAMar 29: Lecture: Environmental Contamination (Paul Ligon and Jill Kauffman Johnson)(Tentative) Apr 5: Workshop: Practices that work - concepts and experiences(Tentative) Apr 12: Panel: Spreading Sustainability - A Programmatic Model (UVM Sustainability Fellows)Apr 19: Lecture: Tentative Debra RoweApr 26: Workshop: Sustainability futures - Ideas and collaborations
Jason Finley

Harvard EdCast: Make Just One Change | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 4 views

www.gse.harvard.edu/...rd-edcast-make-just-one-change

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  • Jason Finley on 24 Jan 12
     
    Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, authors of the book, Make Just One Change, explain why teaching students to ask their own questions just may revolutionize the classroom. Audio clip.
  • Jason Finley on 24 Jan 12
     
    "The simple shift in practice, from teachers asking questions of students to students learning to generate and improve their own questions, leads to significant cognitive, affective and behavioral changes in students."
  • Jason Finley on 24 Jan 12
     
    Do you teach to inform...or to facilitate learning? jf
Jason Finley

Tony Wagner - 2 views

www.tonywagner.com

conference

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  • Jason Finley on 22 Jan 12
     
    Tony Wagner, of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be the keynote speaker at the September 27, 2012 Rowland Foundation Conference on High School Transformation.
Jason Finley

On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service - 2 views

www.educationsector.org/...UKInspections-RELEASED.pdf

NCLB administration Data-driven decision making

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  • Jason Finley on 12 Jan 12
     
    "...argues that education policymakers should take a closer look at another accountability system-on-site inspections."
  • Jason Finley on 12 Jan 12
     
    "...detailed look at the methods school inspectors use to evaluate schools. The process is thorough and rigorous: '[I]nspectors observe classroom lessons, analyze student work, speak with students and staff members, examine school records, and scrutinize the results of surveys administered to parents and students,' he notes."
Jason Finley

Six Steps to Master Teaching: Becoming a Reflective Practitioner - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...master-teaching-margaret-regan

professional development

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  • Jason Finley on 11 Jan 12
     
    Articles like this are interesting. But, they are powerful when we take a critical look at own practices and really evaluate if our classroom actions match the work we promote and speak so highly of in the teachers' lounge.
  • Jason Finley on 11 Jan 12
     
    Becoming a master teacher takes continuous effort.1) Understand Your Reasons for Teaching2) Cultivate Ethical Behavior in Your Students and Yourself3) Pool Both Patience and Perseverance4) Design Curriculum That Works5) Perfect Instructional Practices and Assessment Skills6) Connect Positively to the Whole-School Culture
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