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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)

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Why Parents Should oppose teacher rankings by standardized testing five reasons

ASSISTments is a free online platform that allows teachers to write and select questions, students get immediate and useful tutoring, and teachers receive instant reports to help inform their classroom instruction.

By William Johnson, New York Times In Print: Sunday, March 11, 2012 I am a special education teacher. My students have learning disabilities ranging from autism and attention-deficit disorder to cerebral palsy and emotional disturbances. I love these kids, but they can be a handful.

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Sitting through stuffy lectures with a monotonous teacher is a student's worst nightmare. But Pinterest may be changing that. Yes, Pinterest, the site where people pin their favorite pictures on boards to share with the world. With Pinterest gaining traction by the day, it's becoming a valuable tool for educators.

Education Blog by Anthony Codey, excellent read

Good resource for teachers and creating rubrics

They have become known around the world as the first teachers to flip the classroom.  In the flipped classroom, the students watch video lessons made by their teachers and then use class time to do more hands-on activities and work with their teacher on difficult topics. For more info on flipping the classroom see the links here .

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Effective teachers are the key to student success. Yet our school systems treat all teachers as interchangeable parts, not professionals. Excellence goes unrecognized and poor performance goes unaddressed. This indifference to performance disrespects teachers and gambles with students' lives. Read an overview of The Widget Effect.

Principal shares how he uses technology in his school. Blogs, Wiki's etc. have become regular parts of his daily work.

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I really enjoyed these videos from different schools all over the country. Many of the topics covered relate to what was shared in our class last week.