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"U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today the upcoming release of the national frameworks for family engagement in which Senior Lecturer Karen Mapp, Ed.M.'93, Ed.D.'99, played an instrumental role developing. In a brief video (see below) played today at the National Family Engagement Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Duncan thanked Mapp and emphasized the importance of such frameworks."

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results of 3 year study related to Measures of Effective Teaching

"Research for Better Teaching (RBT) is a training and consulting group dedicated to the professionalization of teaching. Founded in 1979 by Jonathon D. Saphier, Ed.D., RBT works to strengthen organizational culture and to institutionalize the study of teaching within schools and throughout school districts. Dr. Saphier is co-author of The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills - a widely acclaimed resource book in teacher training courses and RBT staff development courses."

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"Bridging Research and Practice by framing issues, producing and disseminating research and distilling implications for decision makers in an emergent movement for excellence with equity."

"THE PARENT/TEACHER HOME VISIT PROJECT is an inexpensive and easily replicated model of family engagement that has been proven to end the cycle of blame between families and school staff by building trust and respect, instilling cultural competency and increasing personal and professional capacity for all involved."

"The framework of six types of involvement helps educators develop more comprehensive programs of school-family-community partnerships."

"TripodTM survey assessments capture key dimensions of school life and teaching practice as students experience them. Results provide valuable feedback and insights about classroom learning conditions. Surveys are also available for teachers, covering key aspects about school leadership, climates and cultures from the perspective of teachers."

"Visible Thinking includes a large number of classroom routines, easily and flexibly integrated with content learning, and representing areas of thinking such as understanding, truth and evidence, fairness and moral reasoning, creativity, self-management, and decision making. It also provides tools for integrating the arts with subject-matter content. Finally, it includes a practical framework for how to create "cultures of thinking" in individual classrooms and within an entire school."

"Often we think of Google Slides in terms of linear presentations, with one slide after another in order. However, Google Slides allows you to add hyperlinks to your presentation which can link to other slides within the presentation when clicked. This allows you to create a nonlinear slideshow, where the user can branch off to multiple different slides from any one slide. Linking to other slides can be used to create quizzes where each answer choice leads to a different slide to let you know if you got the correct answer. It can also be used to build an interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" story where each slide offers choices that lead to different parts of the story."

"The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension."

Free resources for science education

"Boardmaker and other Picture Symbol Resources"

"AIM Center videos can be useful resources to build awareness and knowledge of issues related to accessible instructional materials. The videos cover a variety of topics and perspectives and are available for individual use or to incorporate into workshops and other learning opportunities"

Assessment 3.0 involves replacing traditional grades with conversation, self-evaluation and narrative feedback using SE2R or a similar model.