Rhode Island Association of School Principals

Miscellaneous Updates and Briefings: Thu. 6/10/10

This post contains a list of all of the interesting recent emails, updates, and briefings we saw fit to pass on to our members. Please enjoy, and don’t forget, you can be notified of new posts to this blog by following RIASP on Twitter: @riasporg.

Below, we’ve listed the title of each briefing, along with three selected headlines or a short summary from the contents (note that each briefing contains more than just the excerpted content).

The Rhode Island Foundation Enews (May 27th)

  • Standing-room only crowd on hand for “The Future of Primary Care in Rhode Island” forum
  • Mark Conrad spoke on the “widely-implemented charter school model” and how Expeditionary Learning Schools create real world, long-term investigations
  • … and more

Differentiated Instruction (May 27th)

  • Midwest Conference on D.I. coming July 6-9
  • National Conference on D.I. coming July 18-21
  • Link available to register your group for either conference
  • … and more

Alliance for Excellent Education:  Straight A’s (June 2nd)

  • Links connected to the Volume 10, Number 11 Issue
  • George Miller speaks on turning around chronologically under-performing schools during a May 19 hearing
  • Glenn Thompson takes issue with the “blueprint’s four turnaround models”
  • … and more

REL Monthly Digest-May 2010 (June 3rd)

  • Archives of two Webinars added to the REL-NEI Website on policy changes and identifying learning disabilites in English Language learners
  • Four weekly digest questions centering on schools, research, mentors, and ways to improve student attention
  • … and more

The Rhode Island Foundation Enews (June 7th)

  • Prominent RI leaders honored at Foundation’s annual meeting
  • …and more

Jon Gordon’s Weekly Newsletter (June 7th)

  • Five ways to think like a champion including a reference to John Wooden
  • Keith Ferrazzi launches his online Relationship Masters Academy in helping you go “way beyond networking”
  • … and more

Classroom Sets and Core Novels (June 7th)

  • Follett Library Resources provides books and A/V materials including DVD’s and Playaways
  • They have many titles of different media sources
  • … and more

NASSP Principal’s Update (June 8th)

  • Four day school weeks gaining popularity nationwide
  • NASSP store having its summer sale
  • The Principal Difference says “‘Last Hired, First Fired’ policy should go”
  • … and more

Educational Research Service (June 8th)

  • ERS focus on series including Bullying Prevention and Homework
  • ERS info files on Class Size and Full-Day/Half-Day Kindergarten
  • Response to Intervention book provides a hands-on approach
  • … and more
Nick Soltysiak | 9:56 pm on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment

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  1. Tim McEwen says:
    June 11, 2010 at 11:26 am

    Archipelago Learning Acquires Educationcity Ltd

    DALLAS, Texas – June 10, 2010 – Archipelago Learning, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARCL), a leading subscription-based online education company whose core product, Study Island, provides standards-based instruction, practice, assessments and productivity tools to improve the performance of educators and students, today announced that it has acquired privately-held UK based Educationcity Ltd, a leading developer and publisher of EducationCity.com, an online K-12 educational content and assessment program.

    Study Island and Education City are complementary products that provide high impact and low cost online education built for GLE Mastery and NECAP preparation, with aditional new products in the autumn built to common core standards. For more information, see http://www.studyisland.com/ri and http://www.educationcity.com.

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