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"My favorite vocabulary assessment involved discussion. This is one of the reasons it was different but another is that the discussion was one on one -the student and I had a 3-5 minute uninterrupted conversation"

Make you own list. Make your own future A response to 21 things that will be Obsolete in 2020

"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."

The Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) at the University of Chicago conducts research of high technical quality that can inform and assess policy and practice in the Chicago Public Schools. We seek to expand communication among researchers, policy makers, and practitioners as we support the search for solutions to the problems of school reform. CCSR encourages the use of research in policy action and improvement of practice, but does not argue for particular policies or programs. Rather, we help to build capacity for school reform by identifying what matters for student success and school improvement, creating critical indicators to chart progress, and conducting theory-driven evaluation to identify how programs and policies are working

"In this new video podcast-one of many free resources that support his best-selling book, Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom (Stenhouse, 2006)-Rick Wormeli discusses strategies school leaders can use to unite faculty members around common goals. "

Educational Leadership: Interventions That Work: "Two schools serving many students with disabilities show it's possible to let everyone learn together."

For those of you who couldn't get Turning Point to work on our new laptops (like me) this new version worked!

Nice article on co-teaching Article from Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook:

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"This website provides public access to data about children and youth with disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - Part B and C; technical assistance (TA) materials to support the collection, analysis and reporting of IDEA data; and the forms and spreadsheets used for collection."

A variety of stats presented in some interesting infographics