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"Easy Portfolio is the easiest and most powerful way to create an electronic ePortfolio. Let your digital and analog work shine with this professional and truly gorgeous tool. Students and Teachers will be able to capture and share their work with ease allowing them to showcase their learning in ways never before possible. "

"PicPlayPost® is the first all in one Video and Photo editing tool that offers a full suite of customization options to inspire story telling through captivating video collages. But it just got better with the latest update because we added several key features based on feedback from our incredible fans. Most notably, you can now loop short videos and create GIFs with your favorite video clips! "

"With Talkboard you can visually express your ideas... together. Invite friends and colleagues from across the room or around the world. Talkboard's simple yet elegant drawing tools and integrated audio allow you to easily capture, communicate and develop your ideas."

"An eBook is a downloadable, electronic file which can include digital text, hyperlinks, images, embedded audio and embedded video. Enhanced or multimedia eBooks can be "aggregated documents" including media elements created and saved earlier."

"After examining the social and academic experiences of students who attended these six classrooms, our response is no. The students in these classrooms are not receiving the purported promise of self-contained classrooms. They were not learning in a location with a protective and/or strong community. There were in a much more, not less, distracting settings. Students were not receiving access to the general curriculum in an individualized manner. Teachers and paraprofessionals were not using thoughtful behavioral interventions but were instead using threats, time-outs, and restraints. Given the empirical and legal preference for inclusive schooling stated above, moving students back into the general education classroom with appropriate supports and services should seriously be considered."

"MATH 42 helps students from the 5th to the 12th grade with math - starting with homework to the preparation for tests - by (1) presenting intelligent recommendations, showing how to solve a problem, by (2) giving detailed, illustrated step by step solutions, and (3) a Training and Test Mode that allows you - thanks to statistics - to evaluate your progress and improve yourself. Problems and Solutions can be posted on Facebook or sent per eMail. "

"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."

"Teaching students that intelligence can grow and blossom with effort - rather than being a fixed trait they're just born with - is gaining traction in progressive education circles. And new research from Stanford is helping to build the case that nurturing a "growth mindset" can help many kids understand their true potential."

"Habits of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON'T know the answer. It means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties."

"This site aims to provide students and teachers with information and ideas to assist them apply the Habits of Mind. Each of the sixteen habits is presented along with information on when to use each habit and strategies to make the process easy. Each page includes a short video that demonstrates the Habit of Mind and could be used as a starting point for discussion."

"A personal narrative sharing Dr. Sue Szachowicz's implementation of a schoolwide literacy initiative focused on adult learning.  Sue details her own experience creating a restructuring committee to improve academic achievement and personalize education for all students, giving educators an insider's perspective on leading renewal initiatives for urban schools with challenging demographics."

"What this is: Hundreds of samples of Common Core-aligned student work from K-12 classrooms around the country. Why it matters: The shifts require that teachers gain fluency in identifying Common Core-aligned writing techniques at every grade level. "

Blog post on writing

Slides from Bobby Dodd's presentation at Connect for success 2014

"We define family engagement as the collaboration between families and schools that drives student achievement. A strong body of research shows that students do better in school and in life when their parents are engaged in their education.  Teachers are only with children an average 14% of their time, so it is essential that families reinforce messages about learning outside of school."

"This is a video of an Academic Parent Teacher Team (APTT) meeting at Stanton Elementary school in Southeast Washington, D.C.. APTT is a family engagement strategy that aims to provide parents the information they need to be effective partners in supporting their childrens' education. The APTT model was developed in the Creighton school district in Phoenix, Arizona by Maria Paredes."

"APTT is a family Engagement in education model developed by Maria C. Paredes, It is designed to increase the quality and quantity of parent-teacher communication and interaction focused on student learning and achievement. This video is part two of three team meetings between teacher and parents in a first grade classroom."

"Creighton Elementary School District (CSD) is located in central Phoenix with approximately 6,700 students, of whom 85% are Hispanic and 90% qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. In 2009, Dr. Maria C. Paredes (mparede@wested.org), then CSD's Director of Community Education, created an innovative new family engagement framework for teacher and parent collaboration focused on the improvement of student achievement: Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT©)."

"Creighton School District is a small urban community in Arizona with approximately 7,200 students, of whom 85% are Hispanic and 90% qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Children in the district are tested informally on a weekly basis and then formally every quarter with a district-developed standards-based assessment in the areas of reading and math. To help families better understand the results of these tests, educators in the Creighton School District have reorganized the structure of parent-teacher conferences to accommodate the shift to a more focused discussion around data."