We've Got a Good Feeling . . . Our 2012 New Year Greeting

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Anne to keynote at Powerful Learning Conference in Missouri

Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education presents the 2012 Powerful Learning Conference on Monday and Tuesday, January 30 and 31. The theme of the conference is PLCs in Focus: From Vision to Results.

authorspeak 2011 - The Voices of Solution Tree

Anne and Terry were 2 of the 99 Solution Tree authors who shared their ideas and insights at authorspeak 2011 in Indianapolis during the first week of November. Ten topics served to organize the presentations, which included a keynote by Daniel Pink: 21st century skills, assessment, instruction, leadership, literacy, principals, plcs, rti, school improvement, and special populations.

Our newest book - from Solution Tree Press:

           

We're on PD 360 - Join the SMART Goals Learning Community

Anyone can join the online community of PD 360 for free and receive a free 30-day trial just by clicking on the free trial button at www.schoolimprovement.com. After the trial period, you will retain access to the public portions of the site, including the SMART Goals Learning Community.

QLD web event - S.M.A.R.T. Response to Intervention

Take a deep dive into response to intervention and become S.M.A.R.T.er in your approach. Discover a visual map that will establish shared language and responsibility for greater learning. 

Build Internal Capacity for Change

The S.M.A.R.T. Coach Academy provides the opportunity to build internal capacity to create and support a system of improvement in your district. Participants leave the Academy with the knowledge, tools and support they need to train internal teams and to coach implementation of the S.M.A.R.T. Goals Process – the methodology that brings coherence and focus to school and system improvement.

Road Trip to Hudson School District Part 2 - Reflections

As I continue to reflect on the visit to the Hudson School District, as described in Part I of this post, the ABC’s of Accountability, Building leadership capacity, and Collaboration come to mind.

Ethics Training for Teachers? Really?

The recent “cheating scandal” in the Atlanta Public Schools has policy-makers, administrators and media pundits awhirl with causal theories and stop-gap measures to get control of the situation. Swift action was taken by Atlanta's interim superintendent, Erroll Davis, to produce a "preliminary action plan to -- among other things -- scrutinize all suspicious test scores, review the academic records of some students and implement new ethics training for teachers.”

PLCs and SMART Goals

What is the relationship between professional learning communities (PLCs) and S.M.A.R.T. goals? One way to think about this is from the perspective of a school’s organizational capacity for change, learning and improvement.

In schools that function as professional learning communities there is strong organizational capacity. In these schools you’ll find teachers who:

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