Rhode Island Association of School Principals
Miscellaneous Updates and Briefings: Mon. 7/12/10
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).
NASSP Principal’s Update (June 22nd)
- New York Times posts: “A Struggle to Educate the Severely Disabled”
- The Principal Difference presents “The Case Against Algebra 1 for Everyone”
- The Principal Difference asks “Do whiteboards engage students?”
- … and more
The Rhode Island Foundation (June 23rd)
- Foundation hosts bill signing ceremony for education funding formula
- … and more
REL Northeast & Islands (June 25th)
- What Are States’ Requirements for General Education Teachers Teaching Students with Disabilities? (Wed 7/14, 12-1pm)
- Presenters at Webinar are Susan Mundry, Candice Bocala, and Carole Urbano.
- … and more
Alliance for Excellent Education (June 25th)
- HELP WANTED: New Report Finds Nearly Two Thirds of All Job Openings Will Require Postsecondary Education by 2018.
- THE GED: New Report Finds that GED Recipients Fare Little Better Economically Than High School Dropouts.
- JOBS WATCH: High Unemployment Rates Continue to Disproportionately Affect High School Dropouts.
- … and more
REL Northeast & Islands (July 1st)
- Policy Challenges Conference: Bridging Research and Practice: Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness (archived event from June 25, 2010 brought together state teams from across New England to delve deeply into research and share state efforts to develop policies and programmatic support for the complex challenge of measuring teacher effectiveness.)
- Reference Desk Weekly Digest articles and information concerning school start times, drug abuse prevention programs, and strategies for effectively distributing equitable teachers.
- EdEvidence Newsletter provides information on making research more relevant and identifying learning disabilities.
- … and more
Education Week (July 1st)
- Many education leaders and technology experts will be at the October 5 and 8 day long agendas.
- Many sessions are available that will help you uncover practical techniques for maximizing the effectiveness of ed tech to personalize learning.
- Roundtable discussions focusing on various topics
- … and more
SDE Online Courses (July 8th)
- Solving Classroom Discipline Problems
- Teaching Students with Autism: Strategies for Success
- Singapore Math: Number Sense and Computational Strategies
- … and more