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"Deafblindness is a combination of vision and hearing losses. Most individuals who are deafblind have some usable hearing and vision. Even a small amount of hearing and vision loss can have a huge impact on a child's education and development."

"High-functioning learning communities are driven by the core beliefs detailed in their mission, vision, values, and goals statements. Working together, parents, principals, and teachers define priorities that carry great implications for instruction. Those priorities should play a role in all of the choices made by a school-including choices about the kinds of technology to incorporate into classrooms. Use this handout to ensure that your technology plans align with your school's mission, vision, values and goals."

"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"

"This Toolkit provides a clear vision of best practice related to an RTI-based SLD Identification process. With this vision, school systems can develop structures to ensure that the identification process for specific learning disabilities facilitates decision making about instructional decisions to improve outcomes for students. Explore the resources using the menu above or access the criteria through the links in the graphic below."

"This blog is written by Melissa Cropper, President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT), to engage OFT members and others in advancing the mission, vision, and purpose of the Ohio Federation of Teachers"

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.

nice description of what is going on at the school. Example for districts in outlining purpose of TBTs, early release, etc. "At Montecito Union, our vision is to set a global standard of educational excellence. We strive to give our students the academic foundation to creatively solve complex problems, to apply interpersonal and collaborative skills, and to demonstrate a genuine sense of curiosity in a student-focused and supportive environment. We seek to help our students be empowered thinkers who positively impact and adapt to our ever changing and diverse world."

"As many schools and districts are now rushing to buy every student a digital device, I'm concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources."

Moving at the Speed of Creativity | blog "These are my notes from Matt Hardy's WONDERFUL presentation on February 9th on Classroom 2.0 Live about Blogging in the classroom and the platform he co-founded, KidBlog! The official title of his presentation was "Using Kidblog to Document Student Learning." "

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."

"As many schools and districts are now rushing to buy every student a digital device, I'm concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources."

"When the writers of the Next Generation Science Standards began sketching out a new vision for K-12 science education, they gave themselves a mandate: Develop standards with all students in mind, not just the high achievers already expected to excel in the subject."

"These indicators may serve as a needs assessment, a set of strategic goals and outcomes, a framework for decision making, or the definition of what a whole child approach to education truly requires. In fact, these indicators are among those we consider in the selection process for Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. However you choose to use them, please share them widely among your stakeholders and involve many voices in soliciting evidence related to their implementation. Although these are largely school-based, a whole child approach to education requires the engagement of the entire community to ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged."

Through the guiding principles and framework of this Strategic Plan, MGSD has embarked on an extraordinary and innovative journey.  The school system, parents, community and various other partners and constituents have joined forces to realize a shared vision - A Digital Conversion. The purpose of the Digital Conversion Initiative is to employ technology in ways that improve teaching and learning through increased student engagement while teaching the NC Standard Course of Study focusing on reading and mathematics. It is imperative to note that this project is a curriculum and instruction project, not a technology project. Through this paradigm shift in methodology, we are changing the way teachers teach and students learn, while utilizing an awesome set of technological tools

"The report, Accountability for College and Career Readiness: Developing a New Paradigm, draws on research, actual practice of states and nations, and input from leading policymakers, researchers, administrators, and practitioners (see list of advisors, below) to develop a vision of this new accountability, which is portrayed in an imagined "51st state." The report was released jointly by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education at Stanford University and the National Center for Innovation in Education (NCIE) at the University of Kentucky. It was authored by Darling-Hammond, NCIE Executive Director Gene Wilhoit, and NCIE staff member, Linda Pittenger."

"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. "

"Inspired by Sandy Speicher's vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day. How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says he's seeing some of these already beginning to come to fruition."

Branstad-Reynolds administration's blueprint unveils vision for Iowa's education remodel "

"For the past year, our teaching team has been putting together a vision for what a public school might look like if it was reimagined as an active and connected community centered on learning by making and doing.  We hope to open MakerSpace@LCS for the 2015/2016 school year."

Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities A Vision for the Future edited by Martin Agran, Ph.D. University of Wyoming, Laramie