Edvantia on iTunes
Featured on the Virginia Department of Education’s new iTunesU site are two parent involvement resources from Edvantia: a podcast series called Parent Involvement: Keys to Success (developed by ARCC at Edvantia and the National Council for Family Literacy) and Family Connections learning guides for preK and K-1. Can’t access iTunes? No problem. Get the podcasts here. Order classroom sets of our colorful, inexpensive Family Connections learning guides here.
Dr. Kimberly Cowley Selected for IES Summer Institute
Dr. Kimberly Cowley has been accepted into the highly selective Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster Randomized Trials. The institute is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions. Dr. Kristine Chadwick, codirector of Edvantia’s research and evaluation team, participated in last year’s institute.
Congratulations, West Virginia!
West Virginia came out on top in EdWeek's 2009 Technology Counts report. The state barely missed a top score last year because no technology assessment was in place. But the West Virginia Department of Education, with support from ARCC at Edvantia, answered “yes” to having an assessment in place this time around.
Online Book Reviews for Education Professionals
The Education Review publishes online reviews of recent books on education scholarship and practice. Read ARCC director Dr. Sharon Harsh’s reviews of Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education (2007) and Self-Processes, Learning, and Enabling Human Potential: Dynamic New Approaches (2008).
School Performance Coaching: Lessons from Tennessee’s Success
Intensive professional development with multiple layers of support are at the heart of the Tennessee Exemplary Educators program, listed as a promising practice by Senator Bill Frist’s new State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE). Read more about the program here.
Edvantia Researchers Receive National Awards
Dr. Kimberly Cowley’s dissertation, Investigating Students’ Perceptions of the Factors Affecting Their Educational Aspirations, received third place in the Outstanding Dissertation Award competition sponsored by the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA’s) Rural Education Special Interest Group. Dr. Cowley and Susan Voelkel received an Outstanding Publication Award from AERA for their report on a multiyear evaluation of a Teaching American History project in Virginia.
How to Develop Teacher Leaders in Math and Science
Find out how many small and rural districts have done it here.
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Put Edvantia’s Alignment Study Team To Work for You
Learn about our reliable alignment study model here.
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Algebraic Thinking: What It Is and Why It Matters
Helping students conceptualize arithmetic in a way that anticipates the thought patterns needed in algebra is the emphasis of the Prelude to Algebra approach. Read about it in Edvantia’s April 2009 article in District Administration.
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