• Big Ideas for Better Schools
  Edutopia George Lucas Educational Foundation summarizes the 10 characteristics of effective education based on 14 years of investigating the topic.
  in Administrators > Indicators of Effective Learning & Teacher Assessment with edutopia effective reform schools
• Center for Performance Assessment: Improving Student Achievement
  This is a private organzation that provides various forms of support to administrators and teachers. The site contains free assessment samples for teachers, developed by other teachers. This site selected by Gustavo Correa
  in Assessment with assessment data-driven decision differentiation making schools
• Education Week (Charachteristics of Effective Small High Schools.
  Why Did the Gates Small-High-Schools Program Fail? This article examines how the Bill Gates foundation ignored effective characteristics of small high schools. Jeanette
  in Administrators > Indicators of Effective Learning & Teacher Assessment with characteristics gates high schools secondary
• Smart Schools
  The Smart Schools principles for good education, developed by David Perkins and colleagues at Harvard Project Zero, are based on the two guiding beliefs: 1. Learning is a consequence of thinking, and good thinking is learnable by all students. 2. Learning should include deep understanding, which involves the flexible, active use of knowledge. These principles provide a structure for schools with a vision of a learning community that is steeped in thinking and deep understanding, that engenders respect for all its members, and that produces students ready to face the world as responsible, thinking members of a diverse society.
  in Higher-order thinking with david perkins project schools smart zero
• Smart Schools: Better Thinking and Learning for Every Child
  David Perkins describes his thoughts on "teaching for understanding" where he promotes the idea of understanding as "performance" (to be able to think and act flexibly with what you know). The elements of "teaching for understanding" include: 1. a generative topic 2. understanding goals 3. ongoing assessment 4. images/mental models. Perkins discusses the idea of transferring learning (making sure that what you teach is something students can transfer to another situation/subject). Rec. by Sarah Benkendorf.
  in Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Leading School Improvement with david perkings project schools smart zero
• The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business
  While there are lots of books about education that propose to change what you do in classrooms and schools, here's one that promises to transform how you think. Drawing from 35 years of taking on tough schools with disadvantaged kids and achieving the kind of progress that many thought "couldn't be done", Dennis Littky explains the principles and rationale of a model for schooling that gives students what they need most. Discover how a philosophy of personalized learning--one student at a time--is the key to creating schools where motivated students are engaged in a meaningful curriculum, and academic progress is measured against real-world standards.
  in Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Leading School Improvement with 35 achieving books dennis disadvantaged littky schools
• Chicago Public Schools
  in Travel with chicago public schools travel
• Clipart 4 Schools
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• Turnaround Schools (online only)
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