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There is a growing sense of urgency among educators, parents, policy makers and the business community for K–12 educators to provide students with skills that will enable them to compete with their peers internationally.  Here is a staff development opportunity that may be of interest to you or members of your staff.SCCRESA Symposium - File type: pdf - Size:
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Teachers make a difference when they are intentional about continuous growth and development.  This is an important  article – so take a few minutes to read it all the way through.  This is the kind of message that makes it clear that we have work to do as a profession.  And that both teaching skills and content knowledge are important for teachers to continuously develop.  They are both necessary!

Building a Better Teacher

By ELIZABETH GREEN

Published: March 2, 2010

ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in some cases — for Lemov to tell them what to do to get better. There was no shortage of prescriptions at the time for how to cure the poor performance that plagued so many American schools. Proponents of No Child Left Behind saw standardized testing as a solution. President Bush also championed a billion-dollar program to encourage schools to adopt reading curriculums with an emphasis on phonics. Others argued for smaller classes or more parental involvement or more state financing.

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