Participants will
hear from national experts and state leaders about how their approaches to early learning and development standards have helped improve program standards, assessment design and implementation, and professional development.
Participants heard
from national experts on chronic absenteeism, early warning systems, and the Success Mentor strategy, and asked questions about using chronic absenteeism as an indicator to measure school quality or student success in Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans.
Thirteen new cities will get coaching and technical
assistance from national experts on public data and performance management, according to an announcement from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Hear
from national experts about ways professional learning communities and instructional teams can effectively use Open Education Resources (OER) and data from well - designed assessments to chart an effective teaching and learning path.
The participants exchanged information on topics of common interest, and also heard about the latest developments in research, policy, and
practice from national experts on the topics featured.
Attendees also heard
from national experts Dr. Ellen Frede from National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and Dr. Jason Sachs from the Boston Public Schools, who presented on strategies that state education agencies can take to address the emerging achievement gaps by third grade.
She has continued growing this specialization with ongoing focused
training from national experts, as well as keeping abreast with the trauma - treatment and the trauma - neurobiology literature.
Tips on how fathers can get involved were provided and a free webinar featuring
information from national experts on how programs can support male engagement at schools was held in August.
To accelerate this work, the Education Redesign Lab hosts the cabinets for five 2 - day retreats over 2.5 years, bringing leaders to Cambridge to
learn from national experts, Harvard faculty, and each other.
Novice principals in Gwinnett County, for example, attend a summer institute to
hear from national experts on topics such as how to close the achievement gap.
This program, unique in its focus and exceptional in its approach, offers participants the opportunity to learn
from national experts, from one another, and to create action based research which will impact the work on their home districts and may serve as models for others,» said Mort Sherman, AASA Associate Director for Leadership Services.
Listeners have a chance to learn
from a national expert, state agency personnel, district leaders, and teachers working on issues of high - quality instruction.