…career as a Spanish teacher before serving as Regional Director of the Massachusetts Migrant Education Program, experiences that shaped her commitment to educational equity and the success of multilingual learners….
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Rich Cairn
…performance assessment, environmental education, and history education. He has authored numerous books and multimedia, and has designed and led hundreds of teacher workshops. He is a lifelong social justice activist….
PARCC VS. MCAS: Fitchburg Site of First Battle
…heard rants, raves and everything in between. PARCC — Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — is based on the Common Core federal learning standards and is…
Using Books about Diversity and Social Justice with English Learners
…For the final assessment participants will select one book that they would like to use to teach about diversity or social justice (whether contemporary or historical) and will give examples…
Llama Maynard
…In addition to her strong roots in K-12 science education, she brings expertise to support schools that are implementing standards-based grading, project-based learning, and whole-school initiatives in instruction and assessment….
Les Edinson
Les Edinson is the support facilitator for the Pioneer Valley District and School Assistance Center (DSAC) and the Monitoring Visit Site Visit Team Leader for Schoolworks. He is an experienced…
Developing Academic Language in Science and Technology/Engineering
…assessment of learning, due on July 3. The academic language of science and technology/engineering required to construct meaning (listening, reading) and communicate meaning (speaking, writing) often hinders students’ access to…
Franklin County has two Schools of Recognition
…making so much progress.” But Sullivan and Kirton also said there is more to education than test-taking. Sullivan said MCAS is not always a fair assessment of a child’s capabilities….
Leslie B. Edinson
…Massachusetts. An experienced staff developer, he served in that role in Cambridge, MA and has spoken on multicultural schools, performance-based assessment, restructuring rural schools, and co-facilitated the Inclusive Practices Network…
Peggy Hoime
…as well as teacher trainings. As a parenting and family coach, she works with parents helping them to understand who their child is. She uses the research-based DISC Assessment. Once…