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Common Core in the Cloud, with Vicki Davis, will show teachers how to "use technology to produce writing and to collaborate with others.

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Research Research Summary:  Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education. In 2006, this report was named one of the most influential affecting U.S. education and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation's ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade. Among Darling-Hammond's more than 300 publications are Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and be Able to Do (with John Bransford, for the National Academy of Education, winner of the Pomeroy Award from AACTE), Teaching as the Learning Profession: A Handbook of Policy and Practice (Jossey-Bass: 1999) (co-edited with Gary Sykes), which received the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000; and The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Schools that Work, recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998. Current Research:  Teacher education; school leadership development; school redesign; educational equity; instruction of diverse learners; education policy. Research Interests:  Professional / Staff Development Academic Restructuring Research Design Adolescent Development High-stakes Testing Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)

TCEA is a member-based organization devoted to the use of technology in education. Founded in 1980, the organization has been very active throughout its history supporting instructional technology. Our primary focus is on integrating technology into the PreK-12 environment and providing our members with state-of-the-art information through conferences, workshops, newsletters, the Internet, and collaborations with higher education and business.

Following the very successful forum that the Campaign for Educational Equity held with state officials at Teachers College last fall, we are co-hosting - along with the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education - a forum with New York City officials.

Mobilizing the Tennessee Board of Regents (mTBR) for the new innovations of Mobile Devices and App Technology, Social Networking, Gaming, Simulations, Virtual Worlds to increase recruiting, retention, graduation rates, and for meeting the needs of 21st Century Technological Workforce. -6 Universities/-13 Community Colleges /-27 Technical Centers /-State Wide Workforce Training and Development Twiddle: Need an Interactive Smart/WhiteBoard?

K-12 education may be at a pivotal point in its evolution. New approaches to schooling are being tested around the country, technological tools are making it easier to adjust classroom teaching methods to target individual student needs, and an emerging market of educational entrepreneurs is seeking to make money by solving problems. Indeed, the word "innovation" seems to be in everyone's lexicon these days; it's even turning up as part of new education job titles in school districts and states.

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A Texas school district is trying to close its digital divide by distributing thousands of Apple tablet computers in a move that could make it the largest iPads program for students in the U.S. McAllen Independent School District in the southern part of the state began distributing 6,800 devices this week-mostly the iPad tablet computers, but also hundreds of iPod Touch devices for its youngest students.

The learning map itself is very helpful for teachers in learning alternative routes for students to end up at the same destination," said Terri Portice of Michigan. The map will undergo two more reviews by education experts in the fields of special education and cognitive psychology in 2012 and then be validated through the extensive collection of student data in the 13 participating states.