January 21, 2003 - Issue #2

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In this issue:

1. New Curriculum Helps School Administrators Develop Their Content Knowledge
2. Improving Health Care for Seriously Ill Children
3. Massachusetts Teachers Embrace Japanese Lesson Study Model in EDC Pilot Study
4. EDC remembers Antonia Stone, Leader of the Community Technology Movement
5. Tour of the Month: Assessing Student Learning
6. New Issue of EDC's MOSAIC: Youth and Work -- Young Entrepreneurs from Around the World Discuss Challenges, Visions

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1. New Curriculum Helps School Administrators Develop Their Content Knowledge

The school administrator's role has never been more challenging. They oversee increasingly complex, high-tech facilities while serving more and more diverse communities. But the central task remains the same: improving teaching and learning within a school or a district.

Read more about EDC's new curriculum designed to help administrators develop and apply their content knowledge: http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/lenses.asp

2. Improving Health Care for Seriously Ill Children

For children with terminal illnesses, sometimes small details in how they're cared for can make a huge difference. In a new EDC video created to improve the care of seriously ill children, a young boy describes his frustration when he can't get a nurse to move an IV stand that prevents him from holding his mother's hand. "Why wouldn't the nurse listen to me?" he wonders.

Read more about the Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care (IPPC) and it's new curriculum developed by EDC for health care professionals: http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/IPPC.asp

3. Massachusetts Teachers Embrace Japanese Lesson Study Model in EDC Pilot Study

What do chili peppers and mathematics have to do with each other? Last year, Kevin Kelly, Lexington (Mass.) High School pre-Calculus teacher would have said "nothing." But today, his answer would be "everything." Frustrated with the standard lecture approach to mathematics, he and his colleagues developed a hands-on, interactive lesson that uses the relative heat of chili peppers to explore the mathematics concepts of properties and logarithms. Using an innovative Japanese teacher development program called "lesson study," the teachers collaboratively developed lessons by observing each other in class and drawing on each other's insights.

Read more about Massachusetts school teams and this Japanese professional development model: http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/lessonstudy.asp

4. EDC Remembers Antonia Stone, Leader of the Community Technology Movement

In 1980, long before talk of the "digital divide" was commonplace among policymakers and educators, Antonia "Toni" Stone set up Playing to Win (PTW) in the basement of a Harlem housing project. Initially it served inmates and ex-offenders by teaching computer skills and assisting prisons and rehabilitation agencies. In 1992, Stone brought her work to EDC.

Learn more about the creator of one of the country's first community technology centers, who died recently from complications of leukemia. http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/stone.asp

5. Tour of the Month: Assessing Student Learning

EDC's extensive work in student assessment goes beyond the national testing. Evaluation is one key goal of assessment, but it isn't the only goal. Good teachers also use assessment to inform their teaching, to make judgments about curriculum, and to guide their work with individual students. Take this Web tour to learn more.

http://main.edc.org/tours/assess.asp

6. New Issue of EDC's MOSAIC: Youth and Work -- Young Entrepreneurs from Around the World Discuss Challenges, Visions

From September 7-11th, 2002, world and youth leaders from more than 140 nations came together in Alexandria, Egypt for the Youth Employment Summit (YES). More than half of the 1,800 participants were young people between the ages of 18 and 30. This issue of MOSAIC showcases contributions of young entrepreneurs affiliated with YES, along with key statements emerging from the Summit.

http://main.edc.org/mosaic/Mosaic7/letter.asp

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