Assessment of teachers using materials designed by Pearson. If you teach elementary literacy, have you seen this information about new standards for teachers?
This is informative site on flipped classroom. This is becoming more popular.
Students do most of the work at home, learn what they need to at home and then apply the information in the classroom. This helps make more time for the formal assessments of the students rather then the "lecturing" time. Students who don't understand, teachers will have more time to spend with them.