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Cleveland Reads, the Greater Cleveland Literacy Coalition, acts as a primary literacy resource for more than 99 youth and adult education programs. It works beyond the boundaries of any one literacy organization to strengthen and enhance literacy efforts in Greater Cleveland by linking learners to programs; recruiting, training and referring literacy volunteers; promoting best practices; and creating literacy awareness. Central to all services is the Literacy Hotline, 216-436-2222.

"REFLECT, RELATE, REINVIGORATE CASEL's Cross-Districts Learning Event 2015 Hosted by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Cleveland, Ohio May 6-8, 2015"

Edcamp Cleveland schedule

Cleveland.com article about William Foster in Garfield Heights

"It's a dramatic departure for the state from a culture of having virtually all teachers receiving a good rating almost by default and with little commentary. By next school year, each teacher will be rated based on students' academic growth, usually measured on standardized tests, and on how teachers do in the classroom observations"

Group working with the former Stokes Elementary in Cleveland, one of the Investment Schools " As the newly named Voyager Education Services, we will continue this important mission while now expanding our offerings to include the latest research-based services around multi-tier support systems, schoolwide improvement, and school turnaround, transformation, and restart. "

"Nothing matters more to student learning than teacher quality. Not class size, not poverty, not family background, not even overall school quality. This was the key takeaway from a highly controversial Los Angeles Times analysis of teacher value-added scores for students in the L.A. Unified School District. The significance of this finding can't be understated. Many people still believe either that "these kids can't learn" or that "school can only do so much with kids like this until society fixes their families and communities.""

Column from a CH-UH teacher "I knew my class was the most challenging of my teaching career, and our success would be evident by growth, not a minimum score. "You've never let us down," my principal said. But I did. Only half of my students made the "proficient" score of 400 on the spring reading Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA). In math, only 69 percent made it. These scores, used in this month's state report card, represent the lowest passage rates I've ever had. That they occurred during the year I was chosen Ohio Teacher of the Year is a sobering irony. "

"School superintendents across Northeast Ohio are either crowing about their district's high grades or scrambling to explain the low ones to district residents following the annual release of state report cards Friday. "

Eugene Sanders Whatever it Takes Transformation Plan address 1/5/10

"What he found was a pattern of districts taking a big hit in grades when they had students take tests online, while also having great success when students took them with paper and pencil."

" PRE4CLE, a plan that began in 2014 to provide high-quality preschool to all children in Cleveland, was developed through a public-private partnership created to address major preschool challenges and complement the district's education goals."

Legacy New Tech  Legacy New Tech's foundation is Project Based Learning (PBL) with a STEM focus - science, technology, engineering and math. Legacy New Tech uses student centered projects and problem based learning methodology to increase relevance and rigor.

"Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth-a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It's a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learnin"

"Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLEs) are created when educators and/or parents encourage kids to work as a community to answer their own vibrant and challenging questions by using the internet."