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"For students in Grades 2-5, LEGO Education StoryStarter is the helping hand that kick-starts creativity and boosts reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. With StoryStarter, learners work together to create and build stories with LEGO bricks and figures and then use the unique StoryVisualizer software to photograph, write, and publish their stories."

"Beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year, the Office of Special Education, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education initiated a new approach to addressing the achievement disparity between students with disabilities and students without disabilities. This initiative is the Collaborative Work. By invitation, Missouri districts may choose to participate."

From Missouri's SPDG grant

"EduSAIL - Educational Systems and Instruction for Learning - features the Missouri Collaborative Work initiative. Through Missouri Collaborative Work, PK-12 educators establish collaborative data teams, develop and administer common formative assessments, use data-based decision-making, and implement effective teaching/learning practices. With support from the Missouri State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG), the statewide system of support receives training tools, processes, and structures to bridge professional development to practice. This website is maintained with funds received through the SPDG."

OIP and school improvement rsources

"This section of the OLAC website is intended to be used by State Support Team (SST) personnel and other educators (e.g., OLAC-certified facilitators) working on a full- or part-time basis to support districts in the effective use of the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) to support higher levels of student, educator, and organizational learning. It is also relevant to SST personnel whose primary work may be other than direct OIP facilitation since the OIP serves as the foundation for district-wide continuous improvement in the majority of Ohio school districts."

In SST region 9 - responsible for supporting improvement efforts in approximately 40 districts in Stark, Wayne, and Holmes counties - SST personnel work closely with Stark County Educational Service Center (ESC) personnel to coplan and co-deliver professional development (PD) to practicing and aspiring principals

"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."

"When you have a Google Document open, open the Add-ons menu and search for "tag cloud generator." The Tag Cloud Generator Add-on will create a word cloud in the right-hand margin of any of your Google Documents that contain more than one hundred words."

ODE infographics school stats 14-15

""Here we are in a majority-minority district, and our leaders didn't see that our African-American male students could be a success," Mr. Chatmon said. "We had to change the narrative that had normalized failure in black children.""

"  Until we actually focus on teaching the standards-that is, until we decide that our job is to ensure that kids learn what we have agreed to teach them-then it will continue to look like our kids are failing. (And, no, "test prep" is not teaching to our standards, it is just one more example of educators focusing on particular activities rather than on reaching particular outcomes)."

"This sample of classroom management strategies has been taken from the full '55 Ways to Get Silence from a Noisy Group' "

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