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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Keeping Quality Teachers: The Art of Retaining General and Special Education Teachers
May 25 - Free Online Event
In this interactive presentation, Karen Mikkelsen, Program Associate with the Northeast Regional Resource Center at WestEd, will provide an overview of Keeping Quality Teachers: The Art of Retaining General and Special Education Teachers. This user-friendly tool provides school leaders with resources to address retention of all teachers, but especially those in special education. It contains a framework for action that includes practice that, if implemented, will promote the retention of quality teachers. School and district leaders can use the resources and strategies to strengthen their efforts to ensure that students learn with quality teachers. Registration required.
Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Innovative Models for Student Success
June 7 - Free Online Event
With college seen as a minimum requirement for a growing number of living-wage jobs, the economic future is not looking bright for the large number of U.S. students who aren’t even graduating from high school. Some are wondering whether shrinking the size of America’s high schools can help, not just to keep more students in school, but, equally important, to prepare greater numbers for college. At the request of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed $800 million to fund 2,000 small schools nationwide, WestEd took a look at five such schools. What is happening at these select schools? Who are they educating? How are the students doing? In this interactive presentation, one of the study’s authors, Tracy Huebner, Senior Research Associate at WestEd, will present the preliminary findings from the report, along with recommendations for further study. Registration required.
Intensive Care Kids
One California high school makes sure those students most in need get very close monitoring.
Standards, Professional Development, and School Culture Help Turn Around
a School
In 2000, Torch Middle School in Los Angeles County suffered from low
student achievement, discipline problems and a shortage of experienced,
trained teachers. Now, achievement has increased significantly, discipline
problems have decreased dramatically, and teacher morale and quality are
greatly improved.
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