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Free Education Week Live Webinar: Using Data to Improve Student Achievement

Extra Credit for EDU101 students who attend this webinar!!! Contact Dr. Randolph for more details.

Free Live Webinar:Using Data to Improve Student Achievement

Using Data to Improve Student Achievement
Tuesday, December 1, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time
Also available "on demand" anytime 24 hours after the event
Free registration is now open.

Partly because of the No Child Left Behind Act and partly because of advances in technology, a major push is under way to gather data about student achievement that can be used to inform a wide range of educational decisions. Through funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, states are now being encouraged to create statewide longitudinal data systems to help track student achievement. But is the increased collection of student data yielding commensurate improvements in achievement? Join us for an in-depth discussion of why data is helpful, how best to collect it, and how it can be used to help support achievement.

Guests:

Martha Greenway, deputy superintendent of organizational advancement, Fulton County, Ga., schools

Baron Rodriguez, director of state data systems, Data Quality Campaign

This webinar will be moderated by Katie Ash, staff writer, Education Week and Education Week Digital Directions.

Click here to register for this free, live event.

All Education Week webinars are archived and accessible "on demand" for up to six months after the original live-streaming date.

Making some extra income selling your lesson plans?

"Between Craigslist and eBay, the Internet is well established as a marketplace where one person’s trash is transformed into another’s treasure. Now, thousands of teachers are cashing in on a commodity they used to give away, selling lesson plans online for exercises as simple as M&M sorting and as sophisticated as Shakespeare."

Read this NYT article to find out more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/education/15plans.html?em

What do you all think about selling lesson plans?

Executive Function

"Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early-childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function. Originally a neuroscience term, it refers to the ability to think straight: to order your thoughts, to process information in a coherent way, to hold relevant details in your short-term memory, to avoid distractions and mental traps and focus on the task in front of you. And recently, cognitive psychologists have come to believe that executive function, and specifically the skill of self-regulation, might hold the answers to some of the most vexing questions in education today."

Read more on the executive function in this N.Y. Times article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27tools-t.html?em

Spring 2010 Field Experiences

For Elementary Education students who will be participating in field experiences for Spring 2010, applications are now available and can be picked up in my office (Room 406). These are due by October 1, 2009! Stop by and pick up your application today!

Ramona Johnson
Administrative Assistant
Elementary Education Department

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