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RFA is a Philadelphia-based, non-profit organization engaged in education
research and evaluation.
Founded in 1992, RFA works with public school
districts, educational institutions, and community organizations to improve the
educational opportunities for those traditionally disadvantaged by
race/ethnicity, class, gender, language/cultural difference, and
ability/disability.

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Elaine Simon is an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research and
evaluation in the fields of education, employment and training, and community
development. She is Co-Director of Urban Studies in the School of Arts and
Sciences and adjunct Associate Professor of Education in the Graduate School of
Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Matching readers with texts. Links to reading programs, assessments that provide Lexile scores; book search aligned with student interests and lexile levels.

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Sometimes I think in all the push of new initiatives we lose the attitude that we're collaborating together for the students and we begin to think we're on islands alone, trying to show everyone else that we're awesome teachers too.

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It’s time for Online Safety 3.0. Why 3.0 and why now?

The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found.
Online Safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the
peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as
potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline.

To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It’s not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones. ... Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world!

Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components – new media literacy and digital citizenship – are both protective and enabling. Ideally from the moment they first use computers and cellphones, children are learning how to function mindfully, safely and effectively as individuals and community members, as consumers, producers, and stakeholders.

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This past summer, in a sixth-grade math class, New York City schools chancellor
Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology-based
learning takes the place of the old "let's all proceed together" approach. Each
day, students in the School of One are given a unique lesson plan — a "daily
playlist" — tailored to their learning style and rate of progress that includes
a mix of virtual tutoring, in-class instruction and educational video games.

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Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.

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When we reconnect who we are with what we do, we approach our lives and our work with renewed passion, commitment, and integrity.

Since 1997, the Center for Courage & Renewal has helped foster personal
and professional renewal through retreats that offer the time and space to
reflect on life and work. These retreats, called
Courage
to Teach®
, Courage to Lead®, or
Circles of Trust

®
, are
led by skilled facilitators and make use of poetry and stories, solitude,
reflection, and deep listening.

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Listening to Student Voices is a toolkit for K - 12 educational leaders
and school-based teams interested in including students in continuous school
improvement.

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“Teaching causes learning.” While this might seem obvious, teaching is often the last focus of education—shifted to the side by standardized testing, changing curricula, faculty room politics, overbearing or aloof administrators, and shrinking school budgets. And yet, argue the book's authors, the “instructional core”—the essential interaction between teacher, student, and content that creates the basis of learning— is the first place that schools should look to improve student learning. Now a time-honored tradition borrowed from medical practice is helping school leaders gain new insights into teachers' work.

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Lee Teitel, co-author of Instructional Rounds, provides a summary description of the rationale and process of conducting tightly focused network observations of instruction using a non-judgmental descriptive approach, analyzing, predicting, and projection of "the next level of work" in a school's implementation of an instructional initiative.

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SIOP as developed to be tool ofr observation/supervision, now evolved to one of lesson planning and delivery. Need to compare, align with SAS, UBD, LFS...

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Is technology ruining students' writing skills? Here's a interview with Stanford professor Andrea Lundsford describing her assessment of her students' writing practices.

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With so many good teachers out there, it’s fortunate they can share their knowledge via video on the Internet. From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well. Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh perspective, you are sure to find something helpful among these videos.

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Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They’re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.

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A video-slide summary of outlines, camera shot lingo, resource sites (and other digital story-telling videos)

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Matthew May, author of Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking The Toyota Way offers 10 practices that can drive the innovation necessary to discover elegant solutions. These 10 practices should be embedded into the work of schools, districts, leadership teams, professional learning communities, or professional networked learning collaboratives.

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Michelle Bailey, a pediatrician at Duke Integrative Medicine:\n\nMindfulness encourages children to live in the moment and not fret as much about future events, Bailey said. In addition, practicing meditative techniques can help children sleep better, reduce anxiety and stay more focused.\n\nThe following exercises can help young practitioners achieve a level of mindfulness:\n\n * Mindful breathing: Ask the child to take time in the morning and evening to pay attention to his or her breathing for 20 inhales and exhales. Steady breathing has a calming effect on the body.\n * Mindful walking: After dinner, take a walk and pay attention to all the sights, sounds and colors. Encourage the child to use this technique on the playground and at school.\n * Mindful listening: At the dinner table, ring a bell or play a note on a musical instrument to capture the family's attention, then give each person a turn to speak about their day while the rest of the family gives their full attention, to encourage active listening.

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The mantra should be, “No best, only better.” To innovate is to TRY to make things better than ever.

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