School Leadership
Creating successful learning environments is a challenging task that requires educational leaders at all levels—from classroom teachers up to district superintendents—who are knowledgeable of the issues and able to advocate for the solutions that will provide students with the greatest benefit. EDC has created numerous publications, Web sites, and professional development workshops for educators that promote our beliefs that:
- Educators' active engagement in learning is essential to institutional improvement and professional growth;
- Educators' knowledge about instruction and student understanding is broadly distributed within and across schools;
- Educators learn best when what they learn is closely connected to practice;
- Educators' learning is enhanced by working with knowledgeable peers who question, challenge, and support one another.
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Online Professional Development
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Online technologies provide a powerful tool to enhance and extend teacher and administrator quality programs, making available content-rich and classroom-connected resources in ways that bridge time and distance. EDC’s EdTech Leaders Online project enables school districts and other educational organizations to develop local capacity to provide online professional development opportunities.
Visit the EdTech Leaders Online Web site. 
View an interactive presentation concerning different types of professional development (portions of this presentation requires Macromedia Shockwave). |
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School Health
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Making Health Academic is a guide for school district superintendents and local health department commissioners to help them plan for and implement modern school health programs. Such programs integrate the resources of education, health, and social service agencies to improve healthy behaviors and knowledge, as well as educational and social outcomes.
Visit the Web site of Making Health Academic. |
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Special Education
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The Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative is a network of special and general education leaders working together to improve outcomes for students with disabilities in the nation's urban schools. The Collaborative accomplishes its leadership development mission by providing training, personalized technical assistance, policy sharing, and distance-learning opportunities.
Visit the Web site of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative. |
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Mathematics and Science Education Reform
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The Resources for Teacher Leadership Web site provides a compilation of resources for secondary school teachers who plan to assume leadership roles in mathematics and science education reform. The resources are intended to support teachers in the following leadership activities: making presentations, writing for publication, reaching out to the community, mentoring and coaching, providing professional development, and supporting pre-service education.
Read a feature article about the Resources for Teacher Leadership Web site.
Visit the Resources for Teacher Leadership Web site.
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Model for School Reform |
EDC has collaborated with the Union City, New Jersey school district for more than a decade to help implement and study a large-school reform initiative incorporating a variety of experiments in educational technology. In an article from Edutopia magazine, Margaret Honey, director of EDC’s Center for Children and Technology, discusses Union City's blueprint for change and how the educational principles and change processes behind Union City's reform approaches can be replicated in other districts.
Read a copy of the article from Edutopia. |
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Data-Driven Decision Making |
The Grow Network is a large-scale data reporting system that organizes students’ standardized test data into reports customized for teachers, school leaders, and parents. EDC is conducting an evaluation of the system that explores the intersection of decision-support technologies, educators, and the process of transforming data into knowledge. The evaluation will be of special interest to school administrators interested in data-driven decision making.
Read a copy of EDC’s evaluation report (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
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Curriculum for School Administrators
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Lenses on Learning: A New Focus on Mathematics and School Leadership is a course that provides an opportunity for K-8 school administrators to learn about standards-based mathematics education, how to support it, and the way that its principles impact key aspects of their work. Each module focuses on a functional area of administrators’ work such as classroom observation and teacher supervision and professional development for teachers.
Learn more about Lenses on Learning on the Web site of EDC’s Center for Development of Teaching.
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