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July 17, 2012

Teaching Content to Mastery through Conceptual Understanding

Description: Teaching to mastery is one of the key prerequisites to student achievement, but it is seldom accomplished. Impediments to teaching to mastery through conceptual understanding include: teacher knowledge of the content, teacher- centered instruction, lack of opportunity for students to engage in conversations about the content, and myopic assessment practices. This workshop will aid teachers […]
July 17, 2012

Constructing a 30-60-90-Day Plan for Leaders

Description: Driven by a proscription from the combined expertise within the organization rather than by a prescription from an outside expert, planning is the means by which an organization creates artifactual systems toward extraordinary purpose. Developing a short-term plan is key to the success of new leaders and leaders with a renewed commitment to leading organizational […]
July 17, 2012

Making the Academic Rigor Actionable for All Students

Description: While, individual students’ scores on a standardized assessment is the twenty-first century measure of school success, standardized testing and the pressure to teach to the test, does not necessarily result in exposure to instruction that requires students to think critically, nor does it ensure that students are exposed to instruction that is characterized by rigor; […]