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12 educators get distinguished leadership awards |
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Saipan Tribune |
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McREL consultants Greg Cameron and David Rease, Jr., traveled to Saipan to deliver a four-day leadership institute to 65 principals, vice principals, program managers, and board of education members, with a focus on establishing strategic priorities that are "clear, concise, coherent, and realistic," said Education Commissioner Dr. Rita Sablan. |
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Using McREL's Knowledge Taxonomy for Ed Tech Professional Development |
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Learning and Leading with Technology |
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In this article, which appears in the June/July issue, McREL Lead Consultant Elizabeth Ross Hubbell shares ideas for helping teachers embrace technology by applying McREL's Knowledge Taxonomy to technology integration in the classroom. The taxonomy is based on the assertion that teachers need to know not only what to do to improve student achievement (declarative knowledge) but also why (experiential knowledge), how (procedural knowledge), and when (contextual knowledge) to do it. For example, Hubbell helps teachers understand why technology is important with articles or videos that illustrate the stark contrast between a student's digital life outside and inside the classroom. Or she may use a logic model to help teachers think about their student "clients," identify their needs, and determine the best resources to meet those needs. |
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Playing games makes your child clever |
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Times Online (London) |
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McREL early childhood education researcher Elena Bodrova was interviewed for this article on the resurging popularity of the ideas of pioneering Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, which appeared in the online version of the London Times. Bodrova, who is leading the charge in the U.S. for using more play in the classroom to teach children self-control, focus, and self-motivation, explains that children are arriving at school less able to focus because "they don't know how to play." When children spend more time participating in structured make-believe and social games, they are "a head above themselves," practicing for the next level of learning, Vygotsky wrote back in the 1920s. |
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Audit clears schools of wrongdoing |
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Gainesville Times (Georgia) |
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Two schools in Gainesville were among dozens flagged across the state for unusually high wrong-to-right erasure marks on last spring’s exam. McREL assessment expert Bruce Randel helped district officials interpret the results of the analysis of erasures conducted by the testing company. |
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Presentation by Mike May, visually impaired inventor and entrepreneur, caps McREL’s ACE project |
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Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), in conjunction with Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, is concluding its Visualizing Science with Adapted Curriculum Enhancements (ACE) project with a presentation by Mike May, a blind inventor, entrepreneur, and athlete, on May 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind in Colorado Springs. |
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McREL chosen as educational services provider for Washington state |
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Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) has been chosen by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Olympia, Wash., as one of 11 providers eligible to provide comprehensive educational services to the state’s low-performing schools as part of a School Improvement Grant from the United States Department of Education. |
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Autonomy for School Leaders |
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The School Administrator
January 2010, Number 1, Vol. 67 |
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In this article, Jim Eck, McREL's senior director of field services, and Bryan Goodwin, McREL's vice president of communications and marketing, discuss a key finding from McREL's research on district leadership, which suggests that effective districts intentionally create "defined autonomy" for school leaders: they set clear, non-negotiable goals for student achievement and classroom instruction district-wide, while offering the principals the autonomy and support necessary to achieve those goals. |
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