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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. "

Delivery of Services Model for Special Services' Response to Intervention for All Student Success

Delivery of Services Model for Special Services' Response to Intervention for All Student Success manual - great resource!

"This case presents the story of an elementary school leader with the vision, courage, and practical knowledge to rethink traditional service delivery. Principal Deb Hoffman worked with her staff to develop an Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) approach that drew together teachers, specialists, parents and staff in a shared vision for supporting student who traditionally struggle"

"It can often be difficult to come up with new ideas when you're trying to develop or improve a product or service. This is where creative brainstorming techniques like SCAMPER can help. This tool helps you generate ideas for new products and services by encouraging you to think about how you could improve existing ones. We'll look at SCAMPER in this article."

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. 

"Give Em The Pickle and Leadership Pickles and What's Your Pickle? from Bob Farrell , customer service & leadership training videos!" Mentioned by Ritz Carlton guy

"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."

"When it comes to public education, 2013 is likely to be a year of new thinking, from innovative approaches to classroom technology to a potentially game-changing decision by the Supreme Court on affirmative action. States and school districts will continue to struggle with the recession's fiscal fallout, even as demands for more programs and services -- including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives, extended learning time, and early childhood education -- increase."

They were here to see the schools. Specifically, a network of Cincinnati Public Schools dubbed "Community Learning Centers." These schools - there are 34 full-fledged examples at CPS so far and counting - hold more than the kids, teachers and extracurricular activities associated with public schooling. They also hold full-service health clinics, eye centers, dental clinics, mental health counselors, tutoring programs and after-school programs on everything from ballroom dancing to construction classes.

"GoClass is a cloud based teaching and learning platform designed for connected mobile devices in the classroom. This App allows you to use several GoClass services and features on Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices. If you do not already have a GoClass account you can set one up for free at the GoClass website."

Mentioned by Penny Reed in our workshop today "Our Vision... is for every individual with a disability to automatically receive the services and inclusion they are entitled to in order to reach their fullest potential."

"Striking.ly is a service that can be used to create one page websites to show off your best digital work or to advertise an event. Striking.ly provides a variety of templates for digital portfolios and digital flyers. Each template can be customized by hovering your mouse on any element of the template and selecting the edit button. Free Striking.ly pages are assigned Striking.ly subdomains. Premium accounts can have custom domains."

"Graphite, a free service from Common Sense Media, helps teachers find, understand, and share the best digital learning products available."

T.H.E. P.A.C.T.™ is a 4-step, language-based teaching framework that is easy to implement in regular ed, special ed, or related services.

"The truth is that the iPad is not destined to change the face of education. Nor is it just an expensive toy bought only by Apple fanboys, as some anti-Apple bloggers hyperbolize. It's a tool, like any other, and in the classroom it must always be thought of as being in the service of pedagogy. The pedagogical foundations must be solid, because the tool will achieve no heights the underlying pedagogy will not support. "

"LiveBinders is an electronic portfolio that allows its users to organize , bookmark, and share online content . It is a bookmarking tool that facilitates the organization of the information found online. Instead of saving the links of your favorite websites in other bookmarking services like Delicious for example, LiveBinders lets you organize your links into tabs accessible through instant click . "

"North Central Ohio Educational Service Center's Data Gathering Tool (DGT) is a data collection tool for administrative walkthroughs and observations. Aligned to the OTES Rubric, the DGT assists administrators in collecting focused data that assists you in implementing OTES."

"Ohio Federation of Teachers is taking the lead in making sure all children in the state have a quality public education. By ensuring schools safe and welcoming, teachers and staff are well-prepared and supported, children have an engaging curriculum, and families have access to wraparound services, OFT is reclaiming the promise."

Development of the "All Children Can Read" site began in 2006 as part of the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) Literacy Practice Partnership. The goal of this site is to provide information and resources for teaching and working with children who have complex learning challenges. Specifically, the site is designed for individual state deaf-blind projects, teachers, family members and related services providers interested in beginning or enhancing literacy instruction for children who have combined vision and hearing loss.