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"Schools may wonder if users can get regular Google accounts, why should schools get GAFE accounts instead? Wouldn't it be fine for staff and students to just use personal Gmail accounts?"

SST 9 LiveBinder for resources supporting accessibility for Ohio's State Tests

"KIPP NYC focuses their efforts on the development of seven highly predictive strengths. Working with Dr. Angela Duckworth, Dr. Chris Peterson, and Dr. Martin Seligman, and in partnership with Riverdale Country School, KIPP NYC created the behaviors below to provide a roadmap for the development of each strength."

College and Career Readiness Skills checklist

"Tony Wagner of Harvard University worked to uncover the 7 survival skills required for the 21st century. To accomplish this, hundreds of CEOs in business, non-profits and educational institutions were interviewed. A list of seven skills that people will need to survive and thrive in the 21st century was compiled from their answers."

"Welcome to my list of webtools that don't require student registration."

"What happens when instead of suspensions, kids talk out their mistakes? New Hampshire high school asks students to talk, listen and make amends"

"I was excited to read two recent reports from researcher John Hattie: What Doesn't Work in Education: The Politics of Distraction andWhat Works Best in Education: The Politics of Collaborative Expertise.Hattie, whose seminal research is on the educational practices most likely to lead to student gains, examines those findings to determine how we increase those practices within schools. It is no surprise to many of us that he has landed on the power of collaborative learning."

" the mission of Future Ready is to maximize digital learning opportunities and help school districts better prepare students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved, for success in college, career and citizenship."

"REFLECT, RELATE, REINVIGORATE CASEL's Cross-Districts Learning Event 2015 Hosted by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Cleveland, Ohio May 6-8, 2015"

"Traverse - which stands for Teaching Respect, Attitude, Versatility, Empathy, Responsibility, Success and Ethics - identifies students performing the bottom 15 percent at a particular grade and brings them through a program of character education, service learning and enrichments."

"In her speech accepting the award, Smith talked about a seminal moment in her career when she realized she needed to change her approach to teaching students of color, one of whom told her that she couldn't understand his problems because she is white."

In this new paper, the first of two, he addresses the question of what this search for more impact means, and he does two things powerfully. The first is to make the case that the minimum goal of education, when rightly expressed, should be for all students to make at least one year's progress for one year's input, no matter where they start. The second is to argue that at the level of public policy there are many ideas, many of them popular and plausible, which do not pass the 0.4 test.

John Hattie June 2015