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Improving Student Outcomes with Advanced Analytics

Sponsor: SAS
Posted: May 1, 2013

Perhaps the most influential factor in the future of our economy is public education. Empowering educators through more effective analysis of data will ensure that students are better prepared for college, the workplace and the global marketplace.

Read about some of the key benefits of using data analysis, including the ability to truly differentiate instruction and provide an earlier response to intervention. Data analysis can also give teachers the ability to tailor their own professional growth plans, which ultimately cultivates student success.

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Building Your Digital District with Ease

Sponsor: Moodlerooms
Posted: April 15, 2013

Today, teachers are moving their learning materials online faster than ever. While many are using an LMS like Moodle to create rich, interactive learning environments, they consistently run into barriers that prevent them from finding and using content that’s most relevant to them. Our teachers need the tools that give them freedom to share new content they create or use content that others have created, shared, and/or found useful. Discover some of the recent advances in edtech that break down barriers for teachers and help them create a better learning experience for their students.

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Most Effective Way to Transition to the Common Core

Sponsor: Think Through Math
Posted: April 15, 2013

One of the primary goals of the Common Core State Standards is to deepen student understanding. Teaching understanding is not new to Think Through Math—it’s what we do! Our common sense approach, supported by research and years of quality online instruction, makes Think Through Math the most effective way to step up to the Common Core challenge.

With focused and coherent instruction, Think Through Math is designed to meet the rigors of the Common Core and accelerate students to grade level and beyond.

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Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College YES Prep Shares Its Success Story

Sponsor: The Broad Foundation
Posted: April 1, 2013

This report illustrates the successful college preparatory practices of YES Prep Public Schools, a network of 11 public charter schools in Houston that serves nearly 7,000 poor and minority students. During the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools review process, a panel of national education experts chose YES Prep as the best among the nation’s 20 largest urban charter management organizations in closing achievement gaps, graduating its students and preparing them for college. Since YES Prep’s inception in 1998, 100 percent of its seniors have graduated from high school and been accepted to four-year colleges and universities. The policies and practices highlighted in this report were collected during a week-long site visit to YES Prep conducted by RMC Research Corporation in November 2012 and a review of YES Prep’s quantitative student achievement data over the past four years.

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Taming the wild west: How America’s third largest school district manages PCs, Macs, and iPads

Sponsor: Absolute Software
Posted: April 1, 2013

When Chicago Public Schools embarked on a review of their endpoint management processes, they were determined to find a solution that could manage multiple operating systems and form factors to support their large PC and Apple deployment. With 40,000+ Mac laptops, 10,000 Apple® computers, and more than 5,000 iPads, cross-platform capabilities were imperative.

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Applying Motivational Research to Math Instruction

Sponsor: Carnegie Learning
Posted: April 1, 2013

As students enter middle school, many start to lose interest in academic success. This loss of interest can be attributed to students’ alienation, resulting from a feeling that the school environment is unwelcoming to them. Recent research identifies several elements of this alienation, as well as practices that can re-focus students on academic achievement. Effective math instruction should be strongly influenced by research into how students learn and how to best motivate students to succeed academically. This whitepaper provides an overview of the research around motivating students to learn and how that research has been applied to the Carnegie Learning Math Series.

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Integrating Social and Emotional RTI to Improve Student Performance

Sponsor: ScholarCentric
Posted: March 1, 2013

Many districts have found that integrating social and emotional RTI into their middle and high schools helps allocate scant resources most effectively, and increases academic outcomes and graduation rates significantly.

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Four Key Factors of Effective School Leadership

Sponsor: Lexia Learning
Posted: May 15, 2013

High accountability standards require strong school leadership. Many studies on the topic of effective school leadership focus on creating a shared vision between administrators and teachers in alignment with four key factors: Organizational Knowledge, Use of Data, Scheduling, and Positive Beliefs and High Expectations. This whitepaper will provide best practices from academically high-performing schools from across the country whose focus on these common factors were critical components of their success.

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Smart infrastructure report to get your district ready for future IT needs.

Sponsor: Center for Digital Education
Posted: April 1, 2013

This FREE Special Report on Smart Infrastructure for the Future of Education from the Center for Digital Education examines how demands on the IT infrastructures of education institutions are becoming more complex as data storage capacity needs explode, due in part to mobile adoption, blended/online/hybrid learning environments, and online assessments required by the Common Core State Standards. This Special Report looks at some of the trends that are impacting IT infrastructures and gives specific guidance on smart strategies K-20 institutions can implement to ensure they are prepared to take advantage of the inevitable technological changes coming their way.

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Best Practices in Information Management, Reporting and Analytics for Education

Sponsor: SAS
Posted: May 1, 2013

The use of reporting and analytics is on the rise in education. This paper focuses on how to get the most from SAS® software investments to improve programs, curriculums and student outcomes. Ten customer-proven best practices are discussed – based on the insights and proven successes of SAS customers working in K-12 and higher education.

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Great Books Programs: The Cure for the Common Core

Sponsor: Great Books Foundation
Posted: May 1, 2013

Great Books programs are a great match for the Common Core State Standards. Great Books programs provide text complexity; demand multiple, close readings of texts; and feature text-dependent, text-specific questions requiring responses with specific and relevant evidence. Teachers who lead our programs use a questioning stance that extends and scaffolds critical thinking, while students are asked to write for argument in response to important questions. Find out why Great Books K–12 programs are the Cure for the Common Core!

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• Improving Student Outcomes with Advanced Analytics

• Best Practices in Information Management, Reporting and Analytics for Education

• Four Key Factors of Effective School Leadership

• Smart infrastructure report to get your district ready for future IT needs.

• Applying Motivational Research to Math Instruction

• Great Books Programs: The Cure for the Common Core

• Building Your Digital District with Ease

• Integrating Social and Emotional RTI to Improve Student Performance

• Taming the wild west: How America’s third largest school district manages PCs, Macs, and iPads

• Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College YES Prep Shares Its Success Story

• Most Effective Way to Transition to the Common Core

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