Create Powerful and Effective Professional Learning Communities Within Your District!
Deep Implementation: Change Practice, Get Results
21st Century Professional
Development By Design
No two districts are the same, that's why JK Thomas can customize your professional development and overall district improvement plan to your district's specific needs, budget, and circumstances. We provide you with all of the options, platforms, experts, resources, and guidance you need to implement and support your PLCs - and you choose what you want to use.
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Ten Things that Matter from Assessment to Gradingby Tom Schimmer
 Ten Things that Matter from Assessment to Grading outlines the big ideas of assessment so teachers can prioritize where to refine their practice. Structured in standalone, quick-read chapters, its flexible approach lets readers choose the material that matters most to them. Chapters tackle concepts such as descriptive feedback, differentiated instruction, student ownership and grading accuracy.
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Instructional Leader on the Go...
Each PD eBulletin gives the busy district or school-level leader brief, practical, free, high quality learning opportunities in a variety of media formats.
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 Common Core State Standards Focus On Critical Thinking Amid Political DebateRemembering the plot of a short story is no longer good enough in teacher Amy Lawson's fifth-grade classroom.
Today's students are being asked to think more critically. For example, what might a character say in an email to a friend?
"It's hard. But you can handle this," Lawson tells them.
Welcome to a classroom using the Common Core State Standards, one of the most politicized and misunderstood changes in education for students and their teachers in kindergarten through high school.
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 What works best for raising student achievement?
Free one-hour webinar from Corwin
December 6th at 3:00pm PST/6:00pm EST
The Visible Learning research shows that 95% of what teachers do has a positive impact on student learning. However, some practices have a higher effect than others.
Register for this free Visible Learning webinar to learn which practices make the greatest impact on student learning.
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 A Little Humor Goes a Long Way...
Kids React to Viral Videos: Batdad
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 RTI and New Standards Annual ConferenceJanuary 25-26, 2014
Dena'ina Convention Center
Anchorage, AK
New standards have been adopted in Alaska, and similar standards have been adopted nationwide with the Common Core State Standards. What are the implications within a RTI system? How do you align the new standards with evidence-based interventions?
Join us for the third annual Alaska RTI conference for a discussion of how to move forward with RTI and the new standards in your classroom, school or district.
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 The Leadership
Challenge of a LifetimeBLEgroup Thought Leadership Network
By the Spring of 2015 school district leaders across the nation will need to have achieved the most significant shift in educational practice in our lifetimes. EVERYTHING needs to be revised . . .- Learning Outcomes
- Instructional Practice
- Assessment
- Technology - Curriculum Integration
Bring a world of expertiseto your technology implementation plan . . . BLEgroup Thought Leadership Network (over 150 successful technology implementation district leaders) provides planning, review, analysis and implementation support services to small and medium size school district leaders - when, where and how they want or need it. The BLEgroup Thought Leader Network can provide, articles, webinars, resources and the expertise of 150 Thought Leaders who can help you achieve your goals.
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BLEgroup Thought Leadership Network Services
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