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Lakewood High School 2.0 Moodle site

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 learning organization Just what constitutes a 'learning organization is a matter of some debate. We explore some of the themes that have emerged in the literature and the contributions of key thinkers like Donald Schon and Peter Senge. Is it anything more than rhetoric? Can it be realized?"

"Peter Senge's vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create has been deeply influential. We discuss the five disciplines he sees as central to learning organizations and some issues and questions concerning the theory and practice of learning organizations. "

"The release of the 2009 PISA results this past week has created quite a stir and has provided ample fodder for public school bashers and doomsayers who further their own philosophical and profit-motivated agendas by painting all public schools as failing. For whatever reason, these so-called experts, many of whom have had little or no actual exposure to public schools, refuse to paint an accurate picture of the state of education. "

This report is the culmination of a yearlong effort to study the efficiency of the nation's public education system and includes the first-ever attempt to evaluate the productivity of almost every major school district in the country. In the business world, the notion of productivity describes the benefit received in exchange for effort or money expended. Our project measures the academic achievement a school district produces relative to its educational spending, while controlling for factors outside a district's control, such as cost of living and students in poverty.

Stephanie_Hirsh- from ASCD article

A link to the spreadsheet we created to look at district data

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants "The United States' education system is neither coherent nor likely to see great improvements based on its current attempts at reform, a reportRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader released this week by the National Center on Education and the Economy concludes. "

read this just before you posted. thanks! There is a lot to think about...................and change is always inevitable!

Olmsted Falls Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment site

Dr. Seuss poem on budget cuts

Welcome to Turning Data into Action - a workshop designed for Ohio educators! ...sponsored byeTech Ohio Logo

Ohio School Leaders - Building Decision Frameworks

"This website provides public access to data about children and youth with disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - Part B and C; technical assistance (TA) materials to support the collection, analysis and reporting of IDEA data; and the forms and spreadsheets used for collection."