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Summer Professional Reading 2009

Administrative Council

The Horizon Report K-12

Outliers: The Story of Success, M. Gladwell, 2008

The Element: Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, K. Robinson, 2009

NETS for Administrators

Professional Development Council, Educational Technology Task Force, Curriculum Accommodation Task Force

The Horizon Report K-12

Teaching & Learning Council

Data Wise: A Step-y-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, K.P. Boudett et al, 2006

Teaching for Understanding with New Technologies, M. Wiske et al, 2005

Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
David H. Rose & Anne Meyer, 2002

Summer Professional Reading 2008

Principals, Teaching & Learning Council

Five Minds for the Future, H. Gardener, 2006 (TLC retreat, August)

A Whole New Mind, D. Pink, 2006 (TLC retreat, August)

Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through, C.J Downey et al, 2004 (Classroom Visits, June)

Maximizing the Impact: The Pivotal Role of Technology in a 21st Century Education System, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Jan 2008 (TLC retreat, August)

How the World’s Best - Performing School Systems Come Out On Top, McKinsey & Company, Sept. 2007 (TLC retreat, August)

Information & Communications Technologies, ETS, June 2008 (iSkills, August)

 

Mentors, Teacher Evaluation Design Team

Teacher Evaluation to Enhance Professional Practice, C. Danielson, 2000

Letters to a Young Teacher, J. Kozol, 2007

Inducting and Mentoring Teachers New to the District, W. Ribas, 2006 

Instructional Practices That Maximize Student Achievement: For Teachers, By Teachers, W. Ribas et al, 2005

Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through, C.J Downey et al, 2004

Curriculum Accommodation Plan Task Force

The Universally Designed Classroom: Accessible Curriculum and Digital Technologies, edited by D. Rose, A. Meyer, C. Hitchcock

Data Wise: A Step-y-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, K.P. Boudett et al, 2006

Instructional Practices That Maximize Student Achievement: For Teachers, By Teachers, W. Ribas et al, 2005

 

Educational Technology Task Force, Technology Innovative Education (TIE) Advisory

Maximizing the Impact: The Pivotal Role of Technology in a 21st Century Education System, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Jan 2008 (TLC retreat, August)

How the World’s Best - Performing School Systems Come Out On Top, McKinsey & Company, Sept. 2007 (TLC retreat, August)

Information & Communications Technologies, ETS, June 2008 (iSkills, August)