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"Effective collaboration is an important aspect of a successful department. Over the last two years I have helped implement different ways to encourage synergy both within and between different departments. I use the word synergy because when this is achieved the outcome or work you try to achieve is greater than the sum of each individual contributor in a department. Learning sessions and schemes of learning for example are far more effectively produced when a team works with synergism. Effective teams have effective leaders that encourage synergism."

Recognizing that employees are the district's most important resource, the Department of Staff Development will facilitate the achievement of the district's mission through ongoing organizational, site-based, and individual professional development services.  Staff Development is dedicated to quality service provided in a timely, polite manner with effort made to explore every possible avenue to assist individual faculty and staff.  Staff of the Department of Staff Development will do everything they can, within the established and publicized guidelines and procedures, to help the division faculty and staff meet their individual and departmental goals. 

"The Ohio Department of Education is committed to providing a wide variety of documents in formats that can be easily viewed on popular electronic readers. This will include Ohio's new Model Curriculum and Academic Content Standards, which we are actively working to convert into e-reader files"

"In a public service campaign that launched Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment is highlighting the experiences of seven Americans with varying disabilities who've excelled at work, sports and in life because of the support of others."

"H.B. 290 of the 128th General Assembly provided for the sharing of data between the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of Education to link the performance of educators to the institutions that prepared them."

"The Ohio Department of Education offers you free downloads of two dynamic videos about important new education standards that will blaze the path to better futures for America's students. Suitable for presentation at teacher meetings, parent nights, PTA meetings, association conferences and community events, they can stimulate great conversation about why the standards are necessary and how classroom teaching and learning will change."

"Last year my colleagues in the Special Education department and I did a faculty training on differentiating instruction.  We were grateful for the positive feedback.  Here is the 12-page handout and the PowerPoint from that presentatio"

Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology

Ohio Department of Ed's YouTube Channel

"The Instructional Materials & Technology Department of the Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22 is excited to present this year's lineup for our Virtual Speaker Series. Our goal is to bring top notch talent from across the nation directly to Bucks County teachers and administrators through the use of Elluminate. Bucks County educators will have the ability to participate in high quality, interactive professional development without having to leave their classroom. Having virtual presentations not only saves us money, but it allows us to schedule multiple speakers throughout the school year."

"You are viewing the first electronic edition of Tools for Teachers, the Ohio Department of Education's long-standing newsletter for educators"

"This video was produced by the U.S. Department of Education for the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)."

"For these reasons, the U.S. Department of Education's Connected Educators initiative is launching Connected Educator Month in August 2012. Throughout August, there will be coordinated opportunities to participate in events and activities in dozens of online locations to develop skills and enhance one's personal learning network."

Arne Duncan's address to an ASCD group

"This textbook is the result of over a year of collaboration between several individuals. Garth Holman, the Social Studies department chair and 7th grade world history teacher envisioned this project as a way to engage students through the use of technology and help them see the "big picture" that is often lost, or ignored, in history classes. Beginning in the summer of 2006, Garth began working with a student teacher, Michael Pennington (Currently teaching at Chardon Middle School). Another member of this project was Angie White, an intervention specialist at Beachwood Middle School (now at Hilltop Elementary in Beachwood CIty Schools). Angie provided a strong knowledge of curriculum differentiation and techniques to include students of varying abilities. A project of this nature, allows students to disseminate knowledge in a digital format that is congruent to the world in which they live. Our students are digital natives and this new technological paradigm allows for the democratization of knowledge. Wiki technology and the ability to instantaneously communicate across cultures and physical boundaries means that nothing our students create is isolated. We not only want our students to learn, but understand how the puzzle pieces fit to create the world in which we live."

Greetings from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, English Language Arts Section! This binder provides an organized collection of resources for the ELA Common Core State Standards.

The U.S. Department of Education would have us believe-yet again-that we are in an unprecedented crisis and that we must double down on the test-and-punish strategies of the past dozen years. The myth persists that once our nation led the world on international tests, but we have fallen from that exalted position in recent years. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

"The Ohio Charter School Accountability Project is a joint venture of the Ohio Education Association and Innovation Ohio. All data comes from public sources, principally the Ohio Department of Education."

"Join Michael Roush, Technology Coordinator for the Region 14 State Support Team, and Tom Kitchen, Curriculum Consultant at the Ross-Pike ESD, to learn about research-based practices to improve literacy in grades 6-12. Michael and Tom will introduce each of the five Practice Guide recommendations for improving adolescent literacy from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), an arm of the U.S. Department of Education. For each recommendation, they will suggest free tools that support it."

"The U.S. Department of Education [ED] conducts the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), formerly the Elementary and Secondary School Survey (E&S Survey), to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools. The CRDC collects a variety of information including, student enrollment and educational programs and services, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency and disability. The CRDC is a longstanding and important aspect of the ED Office for Civil Right's overall strategy for administering and enforcing the civil rights statutes for which it is responsible. Information collected by the CRDC is also used by other ED offices as well as policymakers and researchers outside of ED."