http://edge.ascd.org/service/getFeed.kickAction?quantity=25 New blogs from Meg_Simpson on ASCD EDge Thu, 09 May 2013 16:28:17 GMT Thu, 09 May 2013 16:28:17 GMT website@ascd.org (ascdAdmin) website@ascd.org (ascdAdmin) KickApps Feed Builder 2013-05-09T16:28:17Z 58 http://edge.ascd.org/service/searchEverything.kickAction?as=127586&sortType=recent&tags=null 0 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-May-2013/blog/6523700/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Attend today’s Whole Child Virtual Conference Session “Grit: Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology in the Classroom” at 4:00 p.m. eastern with Walter McKenzie and Professional Interest Community Facilitator Tom Hoerr. Register now.View and register for the other Whole Child Virtual Conference sessions. Apply for the 2013–14 Nominations Committee. ASCD is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in serving on the 2013–14 ASCD Nominations Committee. More information, including the committee’s charge, qualifications for service, and time commitment, is available at www.ascd.org/nominations. ASCD will accept applications until May 31.   Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   Newest Policy Points Revisits A Nation at Risk ASCD’s newest Policy Points (PDF) takes a closer look at A Nation at Risk, the 1983 report on the state of U.S. education that launched a spirited and ongoing debate about the quality of our public schools. This issue of Policy Points examines the specific recommendations of the report, the accuracy of its dire prediction about “a rising tide of mediocrity” undermining the nation’s well-being, and the evolving school reform debate the report kick-started three decades ago.   Throughout May on www.wholechildeducation.org: The New Poverty In today’s global economic state, many families and children face reduced circumstances. These “poor kids” don’t fit the traditional stereotypes—two-thirds live in families in which at least one adult works and the percentage of poor students in many rural districts equals that in inner-city districts. In the United States, the economic downturn has dramatically changed the landscape, and districts that were previously vibrant are now dealing with unemployment, underemployment, and more transient families. Join us as we share what new—and old—solutions we are using to support learning and ensure that each child, whatever her circumstances, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Download the Whole Child Podcast for a discussion on the current economic downturn; its result that many families and children face reduced circumstances; and implications for schools, many of which have seen drastic changes in the populations they serve and their communities. Guests include Deborah Wortham, superintendent of the School District of the City of York, Pa., and former assistant superintendent for high schools and director of professional development for Baltimore City (Md.) Public Schools; Felicia DeHaney, president and CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute; William Parrett, director of the Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies and professor of education at Boise State University;  and Kathleen Budge, coordinator of the Leadership Development Program  and associate professor in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Department at Boise State University. Parrett and Budge are also coauthors of the 2012 ASCD book Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools. Throughout the month, read the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples.   ASCD Leader Voices Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) cadre members PJ Caposey and Brian Nichols were featured in EdWeek’s Classroom Q&A series with Larry Ferlazzo. Read their thoughts about ways to observe teachers without demoralizing them. Read ASCD Emerging Leader Ember Conley’sWhole Child Blog post about “Promising Whole Child Practices in Arizona”  Read ASCD Emerging Leader Daniel Smith’sWhole Child Blog post, “Who is Today’s Principal?”  Check out OYEA winner and ASCD Board Member Marc Cohen’s Whole Child Blog post, “Our Expectations Are (and Should Be) High”  2013 OYEA Winner Joshua Garcia has a blog series on ASCD EDge called WILL (What I Learned Lately). Read his #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6 posts.  ASCDEmerging Leader Kevin Goddard, also known as “the Goddblogger,” has written great posts over the last few weeks on ASCD EDge: “Complicated vs. Complex,” “Systems Theory,” “Reductionism,” “Chaos vs. Complexity, ” and“Capacity Building.” Read ASCD Emerging Leader Nicole Zuerblis’ ASCD EDge blog post: “Everything But the Kitchen Sink?”   Arkansas Governor Signs Whole Child Legislation Arkansas Governor Michael Beebe signed a new bill into law that promotes a whole child approach to educating the state’s children. The legislation (PDF) establishes a Whole Child Whole Community recognition program and aims to measure the comprehensive well-being of children and how well stakeholders are meeting their needs according to the five whole child tenets and their indicators as identified by ASCD. The recognition program will acknowledge and highlight the work of Arkansas educators, parents, community members, and policymakers who support the whole child. The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out-of-school factors that influence teaching and learning. A diverse state working group will work over the course of a year to recommend a framework and process for recognizing exemplary whole child and whole community successes. Congratulations to Arkansas ASCD, which played a crucial role in supporting the bill’s development and introduction!   Rhode Island Passes Whole Child Resolution The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a joint resolution (PDF) supporting a whole child approach to education that ensures each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The resolution affirms that to educate Rhode Island’s children effectively, the state must pay attention to factors within and beyond its school buildings as well as integrate efforts among schools, families, and communities. In addition, the resolution expresses the assembly’s intent to model whole child concepts in its own work and to join with other stakeholders who support the whole child. Congratulations to Rhode Island ASCD(RIASCD), which worked hard to have this joint resolution introduced into the Rhode Island legislature! To help the state fulfill its commitment to whole child education, ASCD and RIASCD offered some initial steps (PDF)—organized by the five whole child tenets—for educators, parents and community members, and policymakers to take. RIASCD also highlighted some of ASCD’s free resources to help the state put its whole child vision into action.    South Carolina ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series Weasked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.In the seventh post of the series, South Carolina ASCD leader Josh Patterson writes about the challenges and successes that South Carolina has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:Tennessee ASCD, New Jersey ASCD,Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD   The Effective Principal What we see through our research, reading, and conversations with principals and school staff is that to see what an effective principal is, don’t look at the person; look at the effects of her leadership on student achievement, school culture and climate, teacher effectiveness and satisfaction, and community relationships. As the wearers of many hats, principals are crucial to implementing meaningful and lasting school change. Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In April, we looked at what qualities principals in today’s (and tomorrow’s) schools need to fulfill their roles as visionary, instructional, influential, and learning leaders. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Donna Snyder, manager of Whole Child Programs at ASCD; Kevin Enerson, principal of Le Sueur-Henderson High School in Minnesota (an ASCD Whole Child Network school); and Jessica Bohn, an ASCD Emerging Leader and principal of Gibsonville Elementary School in North Carolina. Also this month on the Whole Child Podcast, we talked with educators from Oregon’s Milwaukie High School (winner of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award) about how they meet student and staff needs, taking challenges and turning them into opportunities for all. Guests include principal Mark Pinder, assistant principal for curriculum Michael Ralls, assistant principal for student management Tim Taylor, dean of students Donnie Siel, and teacher leader David Adams. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read the latest newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.    Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News Killeen Independent School District Deepens Professional Development Partnership with ASCD—Killeen Independent School District (ISD)—whose more than 6,100 staff members serve approximately 42,000 students—is deepening its relationship with ASCD to meet its professional development goals. Read the full press release. ASCD Publishes Leadership Guide on Transforming Any Teacher into a Master—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom by best-selling education author, renowned educator, and professional development expert Robyn R. Jackson. Never Underestimate Your Teachers offers school leaders a new model for understanding great teaching as a combination of skill and will, and it's the first book of its kind to support leaders as they facilitate teacher growth in both areas through differentiated leadership. Jackson shows readers how to design and deliver targeted professional development to help each teacher realize his or her potential and achieve great results for the benefit of every student. Read the full press release. New ASCD Common Core Academy Supports School Leadership Teams Across the United States—ASCD is bringing its inaugural ASCD Common Core Leadership Team Academy to Chicago August 5–8, 2013. This intensive four-day professional leadership experience offers groups of administrators, teacher leaders, and nonprofit and higher education partners an accelerated plan for putting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into routine practice. Read the full press release. ASCD Summer Reading List Identifies 10 Books That Can Transform Teaching and Learning—In the spirit of promoting year-round professional development, ASCD has assembled a diverse list of books essential to educators who seek to improve their practice over the summer months. These books—organized by how they help educators transform teaching and learning—offer readers the opportunity to dive deep into the hottest topics in education, including using data to focus improvement, project-based learning, child development, and neurodiversity. All books are currently available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. Arkansas Governor Beebe Signs Education Reform Law Supporting the Whole Child—Arkansas Governor Michael Beebe has signed a new bill into law that promotes a well-rounded whole child approach to educating the state’s children.“An Act to Establish the Whole Child– Whole Community Recognition Program; and for Other Purposes” (Senate Bill 1051[PDF]) outlines a plan for the Arkansas education system that ensures Arkansas students receive a whole child education. Read the full press release. New ASCD Staff Expand Association’s Ability to Design, Deliver, and Evaluate Professional Development Resources—ASCD welcomes three new staff members to the association’s Program Development Work Group. Dr. Andrea Muse has accepted the position of director of research and program evaluation, Jen Thompson will serve as director of program management and process improvement, and Elizabeth Thurman has joined ASCD as director of customer engagement and product support. The additions of Muse, Thompson, and Thurman expand ASCD’s capability to design, deliver, and evaluate the crucial professional development resources today’s educators need to learn, teach, and lead. Read the full press release.     ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Attend today’s Whole Child Virtual Conference Session “Grit: Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology in the Classroom” at 4:00 p.m. eastern with Walter McKenzie and Professional Interest Community Facilitator Tom Hoerr. Register now.View and register for the other Whole Child Virtual Conference sessions. Apply for the 2013–14 Nominations Committee. ASCD is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in serving on the 2013–14 ASCD Nominations Committee. More information, including the committee’s charge, qualifications for service, and time commitment, is available at www.ascd.org/nominations. ASCD will accept applications until May 31.   Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   Newest Policy Points Revisits A Nation at Risk ASCD’s newest Policy Points (PDF) takes a closer look at A Nation at Risk, the 1983 report on the state of U.S. education that launched a spirited and ongoing debate about the quality of our public schools. This issue of Policy Points examines the specific recommendations of the report, the accuracy of its dire prediction about “a rising tide of mediocrity” undermining the nation’s well-being, and the evolving school reform debate the report kick-started three decades ago.   Throughout May on www.wholechildeducation.org: The New Poverty In today’s global economic state, many families and children face reduced circumstances. These “poor kids” don’t fit the traditional stereotypes—two-thirds live in families in which at least one adult works and the percentage of poor students in many rural districts equals that in inner-city districts. In the United States, the economic downturn has dramatically changed the landscape, and districts that were previously vibrant are now dealing with unemployment, underemployment, and more transient families. Join us as we share what new—and old—solutions we are using to support learning and ensure that each child, whatever her circumstances, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Download the Whole Child Podcast for a discussion on the current economic downturn; its result that many families and children face reduced circumstances; and implications for schools, many of which have seen drastic changes in the populations they serve and their communities. Guests include Deborah Wortham, superintendent of the School District of the City of York, Pa., and former assistant superintendent for high schools and director of professional development for Baltimore City (Md.) Public Schools; Felicia DeHaney, president and CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute; William Parrett, director of the Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies and professor of education at Boise State University;  and Kathleen Budge, coordinator of the Leadership Development Program  and associate professor in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Department at Boise State University. Parrett and Budge are also coauthors of the 2012 ASCD book Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools. Throughout the month, read the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples.   ASCD Leader Voices Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) cadre members PJ Caposey and Brian Nichols were featured in EdWeek’s Classroom Q&A series with Larry Ferlazzo. Read their thoughts about ways to observe teachers without demoralizing them. Read ASCD Emerging Leader Ember Conley’sWhole Child Blog post about “Promising Whole Child Practices in Arizona”  Read ASCD Emerging Leader Daniel Smith’sWhole Child Blog post, “Who is Today’s Principal?”  Check out OYEA winner and ASCD Board Member Marc Cohen’s Whole Child Blog post, “Our Expectations Are (and Should Be) High”  2013 OYEA Winner Joshua Garcia has a blog series on ASCD EDge called WILL (What I Learned Lately). Read his #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6 posts.  ASCDEmerging Leader Kevin Goddard, also known as “the Goddblogger,” has written great posts over the last few weeks on ASCD EDge: “Complicated vs. Complex,” “Systems Theory,” “Reductionism,” “Chaos vs. Complexity, ” and“Capacity Building.” Read ASCD Emerging Leader Nicole Zuerblis’ ASCD EDge blog post: “Everything But the Kitchen Sink?”   Arkansas Governor Signs Whole Child Legislation Arkansas Governor Michael Beebe signed a new bill into law that promotes a whole child approach to educating the state’s children. The legislation (PDF) establishes a Whole Child Whole Community recognition program and aims to measure the comprehensive well-being of children and how well stakeholders are meeting their needs according to the five whole child tenets and their indicators as identified by ASCD. The recognition program will acknowledge and highlight the work of Arkansas educators, parents, community members, and policymakers who support the whole child. The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out-of-school factors that influence teaching and learning. A diverse state working group will work over the course of a year to recommend a framework and process for recognizing exemplary whole child and whole community successes. Congratulations to Arkansas ASCD, which played a crucial role in supporting the bill’s development and introduction!   Rhode Island Passes Whole Child Resolution The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a joint resolution (PDF) supporting a whole child approach to education that ensures each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The resolution affirms that to educate Rhode Island’s children effectively, the state must pay attention to factors within and beyond its school buildings as well as integrate efforts among schools, families, and communities. In addition, the resolution expresses the assembly’s intent to model whole child concepts in its own work and to join with other stakeholders who support the whole child. Congratulations to Rhode Island ASCD(RIASCD), which worked hard to have this joint resolution introduced into the Rhode Island legislature! To help the state fulfill its commitment to whole child education, ASCD and RIASCD offered some initial steps (PDF)—organized by the five whole child tenets—for educators, parents and community members, and policymakers to take. RIASCD also highlighted some of ASCD’s free resources to help the state put its whole child vision into action.    South Carolina ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series Weasked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.In the seventh post of the series, South Carolina ASCD leader Josh Patterson writes about the challenges and successes that South Carolina has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:Tennessee ASCD, New Jersey ASCD,Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD   The Effective Principal What we see through our research, reading, and conversations with principals and school staff is that to see what an effective principal is, don’t look at the person; look at the effects of her leadership on student achievement, school culture and climate, teacher effectiveness and satisfaction, and community relationships. As the wearers of many hats, principals are crucial to implementing meaningful and lasting school change. Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In April, we looked at what qualities principals in today’s (and tomorrow’s) schools need to fulfill their roles as visionary, instructional, influential, and learning leaders. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Donna Snyder, manager of Whole Child Programs at ASCD; Kevin Enerson, principal of Le Sueur-Henderson High School in Minnesota (an ASCD Whole Child Network school); and Jessica Bohn, an ASCD Emerging Leader and principal of Gibsonville Elementary School in North Carolina. Also this month on the Whole Child Podcast, we talked with educators from Oregon’s Milwaukie High School (winner of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award) about how they meet student and staff needs, taking challenges and turning them into opportunities for all. Guests include principal Mark Pinder, assistant principal for curriculum Michael Ralls, assistant principal for student management Tim Taylor, dean of students Donnie Siel, and teacher leader David Adams. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read the latest newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.    Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News Killeen Independent School District Deepens Professional Development Partnership with ASCD—Killeen Independent School District (ISD)—whose more than 6,100 staff members serve approximately 42,000 students—is deepening its relationship with ASCD to meet its professional development goals. Read the full press release. ASCD Publishes Leadership Guide on Transforming Any Teacher into a Master—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom by best-selling education author, renowned educator, and professional development expert Robyn R. Jackson. Never Underestimate Your Teachers offers school leaders a new model for understanding great teaching as a combination of skill and will, and it's the first book of its kind to support leaders as they facilitate teacher growth in both areas through differentiated leadership. Jackson shows readers how to design and deliver targeted professional development to help each teacher realize his or her potential and achieve great results for the benefit of every student. Read the full press release. New ASCD Common Core Academy Supports School Leadership Teams Across the United States—ASCD is bringing its inaugural ASCD Common Core Leadership Team Academy to Chicago August 5–8, 2013. This intensive four-day professional leadership experience offers groups of administrators, teacher leaders, and nonprofit and higher education partners an accelerated plan for putting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into routine practice. Read the full press release. ASCD Summer Reading List Identifies 10 Books That Can Transform Teaching and Learning—In the spirit of promoting year-round professional development, ASCD has assembled a diverse list of books essential to educators who seek to improve their practice over the summer months. These books—organized by how they help educators transform teaching and learning—offer readers the opportunity to dive deep into the hottest topics in education, including using data to focus improvement, project-based learning, child development, and neurodiversity. All books are currently available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. Arkansas Governor Beebe Signs Education Reform Law Supporting the Whole Child—Arkansas Governor Michael Beebe has signed a new bill into law that promotes a well-rounded whole child approach to educating the state’s children.“An Act to Establish the Whole Child– Whole Community Recognition Program; and for Other Purposes” (Senate Bill 1051[PDF]) outlines a plan for the Arkansas education system that ensures Arkansas students receive a whole child education. Read the full press release. New ASCD Staff Expand Association’s Ability to Design, Deliver, and Evaluate Professional Development Resources—ASCD welcomes three new staff members to the association’s Program Development Work Group. Dr. Andrea Muse has accepted the position of director of research and program evaluation, Jen Thompson will serve as director of program management and process improvement, and Elizabeth Thurman has joined ASCD as director of customer engagement and product support. The additions of Muse, Thompson, and Thurman expand ASCD’s capability to design, deliver, and evaluate the crucial professional development resources today’s educators need to learn, teach, and lead. Read the full press release.     Thu, 09 May 2013 16:28:17 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-May-2013/blog/6523700/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-05-09T16:28:17Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Attend today’s Whole Child Virtual Conference Session “Grit: Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology in the Classroom” at 4:00 p.m. eastern with Walter McKenzie and Professional Interest Community Facilitator Tom Hoerr. Register now.View and register for the other Whole Child Virtual Conference sessions. Apply for the 2013–14 Nominations Committee. ASCD is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in serving on the 2013–14 ASCD Nominations Committee. More information, including the committee’s charge, qualifications for service, and time commitment, is available at www.ascd.org/nominations. ASCD will accept applications until May 31.   Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   Newest Policy Points Revisits A Nation at Risk ASCD’s newest Policy Points (PDF) takes a closer look at A Nation at Risk, the 1983 report on the state of U.S. education that launched a spirited and ongoing debate about the quality of our public schools. This issue of Policy Points examines the specific recommendations of the report, the accuracy of its dire prediction about “a rising tide of mediocrity” undermining the nation’s well-being, and the evolving school reform debate the report kick-started three decades ago.   Throughout May on www.wholechildeducation.org: The New Poverty In today’s global economic state, many families and children face reduced circumstances. These “poor kids” don’t fit the traditional stereotypes—two-thirds live in families in which at least one adult works and the percentage of poor students in many rural districts equals that in inner-city districts. In the United States, the economic downturn has dramatically changed the landscape, and districts that were previously vibrant are now dealing with unemployment, underemployment, and more transient families. Join us as we share what new—and old—solutions we are using to support learning and ensure that each child, whatever her circumstances, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Download the Whole Child Podcast for a discussion on the current economic downturn; its result that many families and children face reduced circumstances; and implications for schools, many of which have seen drastic changes in the populations they serve and their communities. Guests include Deborah Wortham, superintendent of the School District of the City of York, Pa., and former assistant superintendent for high schools and director of professional development for Baltimore City (Md.) Public Schools; Felicia DeHaney, president and CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute; William Parrett, director of the Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies and professor of education at Boise State University;  and Kathleen Budge, coordinator of the Leadership Development Program  and associate professor in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Department at Boise State University. Parrett and Budge are also coauthors of the 2012 ASCD book Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools. Throughout the month, read the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples.   ASCD Leader Voices Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) cadre members PJ Caposey and Brian Nichols were featured in EdWeek’s Classroom Q&A series with Larry Ferlazzo. Read their thoughts about ways to observe teachers without demoralizing them. Read ASCD Emerging Leader Ember Conley’sWhole Child Blog post about “Promising Whole Child Practices in Arizona”  Read ASCD Emerging Leader Daniel Smith’sWhole Child Blog post, “Who is Today’s Principal?”  Check out OYEA winner and ASCD Board Member Marc Cohen’s Whole Child Blog post, “Our Expectations Are (and Should Be) High”  2013 OYEA Winner Joshua Garcia has a blog series on ASCD EDge called WILL (What I Learned Lately). Read his #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6 posts.  ASCDEmerging Leader Kevin Goddard, also known as “the Goddblogger,” has written great posts over the last few weeks on ASCD EDge: “Complicated vs. Complex,” “Systems Theory,” “Reductionism,” “Chaos vs. Complexity, ” and“Capacity Building.” Read ASCD Emerging Leader Nicole Zuerblis’ ASCD EDge blog post: “Everything But the Kitchen Sink?”   Arkansas Governor Signs Whole Child Legislation Arkansas Governor Michael Beebe signed a new bill into law that promotes a whole child approach to educating the state’s children. The legislation (PDF) establishes a Whole Child Whole Community recognition program and aims to measure the comprehensive well-being of children and how well stakeholders are meeting their needs according to the five whole child tenets and their indicators as identified by ASCD. The recognition program will acknowledge and highlight the work of Arkansas educators, parents, community members, and policymakers who support the whole child. The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out-of-school factors that influence teaching and learning. A diverse state working group will work over the course of a year to recommend a framework and process for recognizing exemplary whole child and whole community successes. Congratulations to Arkansas ASCD, which played a crucial role in supporting the bill’s development and introduction!   Rhode Island Passes Whole Child Resolution The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a joint resolution (PDF) supporting a whole child approach to education that ensures each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The resolution affirms that to educate Rhode Island’s children effectively, the state must pay attention to factors within and beyond its school buildings as well as integrate efforts among schools, families, and communities. In addition, the resolution expresses the assembly’s intent to model whole child concepts in its own work and to join with other stakeholders who support the whole child. Congratulations to Rhode Island ASCD(RIASCD), which worked hard to have this joint resolution introduced into the Rhode Island legislature! To help the state fulfill its commitment to whole child education, ASCD and RIASCD offered some initial steps (PDF)—organized by the five whole child tenets—for educators, parents and community members, and policymakers to take. RIASCD also highlighted some of ASCD’s free resources to help the state put its whole child vision into action.    South Carolina ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series Weasked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.In the seventh post of the series, South Carolina ASCD leader Josh Patterson writes about the challenges and successes that South Carolina has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:Tennessee ASCD, New Jersey ASCD,Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD   The Effective Principal What we see through our research, reading, and conversations with principals and school staff is that to see what an effective principal is, don’t look at the person; look at the effects of her leadership on student achievement, school culture and climate, teacher effectiveness and satisfaction, and community relationships. As the wearers of many hats, principals are crucial to implementing meaningful and lasting school change. Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In April, we looked at what qualities principals in today’s (and tomorrow’s) schools need to fulfill their roles as visionary, instructional, influential, and learning leaders. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Donna Snyder, manager of Whole Child Programs at ASCD; Kevin Enerson, principal of Le Sueur-Henderson High School in Minnesota (an ASCD Whole Child Network school); and Jessica Bohn, an ASCD Emerging Leader and principal of Gibsonville Elementary School in North Carolina. Also this month on the Whole Child Podcast, we talked with educators from Oregon’s Milwaukie High School (winner of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award) about how they meet student and staff needs, taking challenges and turning them into opportunities for all. Guests include principal Mark Pinder, assistant principal for curriculum Michael Ralls, assistant principal for student management Tim Taylor, dean of students Donnie Siel, and teacher leader David Adams. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read the latest newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.    Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News Killeen Independent School District Deepens Professional Development Partnership with ASCD—Killeen Independent School District (ISD)—whose more than 6,100 staff members serve approximately 42,000 students—is deepening its relationship with ASCD to meet its professional development goals. Read the full press release. ASCD Publishes Leadership Guide on Transforming Any Teacher into a Master—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom by best-selling education author, renowned educator, and professional development expert Robyn R. Jackson. Never Underestimate Your Teachers offers school leaders a new model for understanding great teaching as a combination of skill and will, and it's the first book of its kind to support leaders as they facilitate teacher growth in both areas through differentiated leadership. Jackson shows readers how to design and deliver targeted professional development to help each teacher realize his or her potential and achieve great results for the benefit of every student. Read the full press release. New ASCD Common Core Academy Supports School Leadership Teams Across the United States—ASCD is bringing its inaugural ASCD Common Core Leadership Team Academy to Chicago August 5–8, 2013. This intensive four-day professional leadership experience offers groups of administrators, teacher leaders, and nonprofit and higher education partners an accelerated plan for putting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into routine practice. Read the full press release. ASCD Summer Reading List Identifies 10 Books That Can Transform Teaching and Learning—In the spirit of promoting year-round professional development, ASCD has assembled a diverse list of books essential to educators who seek to improve their practice over the summer months. These books—organized by how they help educators transform teaching and learning—offer readers the opportunity to dive deep into the hottest topics in education, including using data to focus improvement, project-based learning, child development, and neurodiversity. All books are currently available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. Arkansas Governor Beebe Signs Education Reform Law Supporting the Whole Child—Arkansas Governor Michael Beebe has signed a new bill into law that promotes a well-rounded whole child approach to educating the state’s children.“An Act to Establish the Whole Child– Whole Community Recognition Program; and for Other Purposes” (Senate Bill 1051[PDF]) outlines a plan for the Arkansas education system that ensures Arkansas students receive a whole child education. Read the full press release. New ASCD Staff Expand Association’s Ability to Design, Deliver, and Evaluate Professional Development Resources—ASCD welcomes three new staff members to the association’s Program Development Work Group. Dr. Andrea Muse has accepted the position of director of research and program evaluation, Jen Thompson will serve as director of program management and process improvement, and Elizabeth Thurman has joined ASCD as director of customer engagement and product support. The additions of Muse, Thompson, and Thurman expand ASCD’s capability to design, deliver, and evaluate the crucial professional development resources today’s educators need to learn, teach, and lead. Read the full press release.     nonadult false L2L News: May 2013 text blog 104 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6523700 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-April-2013/blog/6519920/127586.html   Thanks for a fantastic 2013 ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois! Read ASCD Executive Director Dr. Gene Carter’s annual conference reflections here. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders  Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   Register for the Whole Child Virtual Conference: May 6–10, 2013 Join ASCD for its third annual Whole Child Virtual Conference. This free online event offers thought leadership discussions; presentations from leading authors and experts; and an exploration of the steps outstanding schools, communities, and individual countries take as they move along the continuum of a whole child approach—from implementation to sustainability to culture. No matter where you are on this continuum, you’ll find lessons you can learn and questions you can ask to improve and grow your schools. This year the conference will include 24 sessions over 7 days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern time, with sessions on May 2 and 3 specifically for Australasian and European audiences. This year’s conference speakers include authors and experts Thomas Armstrong, Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves, Eric Jensen, Wendy Ostroff, William Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge, Pasi Sahlberg, and Yong Zhao. Sessions will also feature presentations from ASCD Emerging Leaders, ASCD’s Outstanding Young Educators Award winner, the recipient of Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award, and members of ASCD’s Whole Child Network of Schools. Registration is now open. Go to www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference to sign up.   ASCD Nominations Committee Applications Open in May ASCD is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in serving on the 2013–14 ASCD Nominations Committee. More information—the committee’s charge, qualifications for service, and time commitment—will be available starting May 1 on www.ascd.org. ASCD will be accepting applications May 1–31. We invite ASCD leaders to consider their interest in this opportunity over the next few weeks before the application becomes available.     ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   ASCD Student Chapters Help Chicago’s Hungry During ASCD Annual Conference On March 15, 46 ASCD Student Chapter members volunteered to make a difference in the fight against hunger in Chicago. Working together the Friday morning before ASCD’s Annual Conference, the students packaged more than 15,000 pounds of food to help feed the nearly 678,000 people who rely on emergency and supplemental food from the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Thank you and congratulations to our ASCD Student Chapter volunteers! Read the full Conference Daily article. ASCD Forum Session at ASCD Annual Conference Gives Educators a Voice on Teacher and Principal Effectiveness On March 17, ASCD Past President Debra Hill facilitated a discussion of the ASCD Forum topic “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” Ten ASCD leaders stepped forward to help lead the discussion: ·         Jason Flom, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Ben Shuldiner, Position Advisory Committee Member ·         Amy Vanden Boogart, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Jeffrey Lofthus, Alaska ASCD Executive Director ·         Daina Lieberman, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator ·         Laurie McCullough, Virginia ASCD Executive Director ·         Alice Wells, Arizona ASCD Executive Director ·         Matthew Cotton, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Torian White, ASCD Emerging Leader   Session attendees stepped up to the front of the room to share their thoughts and also posted tweets to the #ASCDForum hashtag. Many thanks to the ASCD leaders who participated to make this session a success!   Congratulations to ASCD Affiliate Recognition Award Winners Please join ASCD in congratulating the ASCD Affiliate Recognition Award Recipients: Two affiliates were recognized for the 2013 Overall Excellence Award: Iowa ASCD, for its increased focus on integrating technology into professional learning opportunities and their influence and advocacy work with ASCD, and New Hampshire ASCD, for its work to increase membership and provide increased professional learning opportunities, such as Common Core workshops. In addition, New Jersey ASCD received the Area Excellence Award for Programs, Products, and Services for their leadership in their state as a trusted source for professional learning. Texas ASCD received an Exceptional Progress Award in Influence and Policy, and Alberta ASCD, Ohio ASCD, and Vermont ASCD were all recipients of the Exceptional Progress Award in Programs, Products, and Services. Read the Conference Daily article.   Welcome to the “Educating Beyond Disabilities” Professional Interest Community Please join ASCD in welcoming our newest Professional Interest Community, facilitated by 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Christina Yuknis. Please join her group on ASCD EDge.   Tennessee ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series Weasked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the sixth post of the series, Tennessee ASCD President-Elect John Combs writes about the challenges and successes that Tennessee has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:New Jersey ASCD,Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD Congratulations! ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn wrote an article for this month’s Educational Leadership issue on The Principalship. Read her article “First-Year Hurdles” on ascd.org. ASCD Emerging Leader Craig Martin is featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Teachers of Color Magazine.Read the article (PDF). Niles West High School Dean and ASCD Emerging Leader Alum Antwan Babakhani has been promoted to be the school’s new assistant principal effective July 1. Read more about Antwan. ASCD Emerging Leader Torian White was featured in a blog post for the points he made during the ASCD Forum discussion. Read the post about Torian.   Other News ASCD Emerging Leaders Curtis Pelham,Amy Murphy, and Armentress Robinson were recently featured in the ASCDInservice blog “8 Questions” series.  Check out Fred Ende’sWhole Child Blog post, “Exceeding Needs Through a Partnership Perspective.” Minnesota ASCD’sSpring Conference, “Creating a Highly Engaged Classroom,” takes place on April 25.  South Carolina ASCD’s Spring Conference was a huge success! Read more at scascd.org. Check out Illinois ASCD’s revised website. Five new members joined the ASCD Board of Directors at ASCD Annual Conference. Read the press release.   Meet ASCD President Becky Berg Becky J. Berg is from a family of educators. "My dad was a school board president; my mom was a career educator; and my sister, my grandmother, and my great-grandfather were educators," she says. Despite the genetic pull, Berg wasn't completely convinced she would follow in the family's footsteps until her experience as a summer camp counselor while she was in college. It was then that she realized how much she loved working with kids. Read the full Conference Daily article.   Congratulations to the 2013 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winners! ASCD salutes a new generation’s passion for education excellence through this year’s selection of two Outstanding Young Educator Award winners: Joshua Garcia, deputy superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools (Wash.), and Parkville High School  (Parkville, Md.) teacher Ryan Twentey. Twentey teaches art, photography, and interactive media production and also serves as the school’s technology liaison. Read the full Conference Daily article.   Interactive ASCD 2012 Annual Report Features ASCD Leaders Check out the ASCD 2012 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Solutions: The ASCD Revolution in Motion.” This interactive report features videos footage of ASCD leaders, including ASCD Emerging Leader Steven Anderson, Florida ASCD President Alina Davis, Alabama ASCD Executive Director Jane Cobia, ASCD Board Member Harriet Arnold, and Connecticut ASCD President David Cormier. Throughout April at wholechildeducation.org: Principal Leadership Principals are the key players in developing the climate, culture, and processes in their schools. They are critical to implementing meaningful and lasting school change and in the ongoing school-improvement process. Principals who have a clear vision; inspire and engage others in embracing change for improvement; drive, facilitate, and monitor the teaching and learning process; and foster a cohesive culture of learning are the collaborative leaders our schools need to fully commit to ensuring each student—and school staff member—is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. What qualities do principals in today’s (and tomorrow’s) schools need to fulfill their roles as visionary, instructional, influential, and learning leaders? There are two episodes of the Whole Child Podcast in April for you to download and share. The first episode, “Leveling and Raising the Playing Field,” features school staff from Oregon’s Milwaukie High School, winner of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award, and is available now. On April 11, the second episode will be available. It will focus on principal leadership and include guests Kevin Enerson, principal of Whole Child Network school Le Sueur-Henderson High School in Minnesota, and Jessica Bohn, ASCD Emerging Leader and principal of  Gibsonville Elementary School in North Carolina. Throughout the month, read the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples.   The Best-Case Scenario As we review and reinforce our schools’ safety measures, we aren’t planning for the worst-case scenario that might happen; we are working to make sure the best-case scenario—where schools are learning environments that are physically, socially, and emotionally safe for students and adults—is an everyday occurrence that does happen. Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In February and March, we looked at what we, as educators, believe is crucial to making our schools safe—not just physically safe, but also safe places to teach and learn. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Joseph Bergant II, superintendent of Chardon Schools in Ohio; Howard Adelman, professor of psychology at UCLA and codirector of the School Mental Health Project and the Center for Mental Health in Schools (a whole child partner); and Jonathan Cohen, adjunct professor in psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and president and cofounder of whole child partner National School Climate Center. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read the latest newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.    Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Announces 2013 Conference on Teaching Excellence in National Harbor, Md.—ASCD will host its Conference on Teaching Excellence June 28–30, 2013, in National Harbor, Md. The conference—which will take place over two and a half days—will focus on the topic of teaching excellence and will have more than 150 sessions tailored for educators of all levels, including teachers, teacher leaders, principals, and district supervisors. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces New Spring and Summer Professional Development Institutes Supporting Common Core Implementation—ASCD announces new one- and two-day Professional Development Institutes supporting educators nationwide as they implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Read the full press release. The Third Annual ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference Launches May 6, 2013—ASCD’s third annual Whole Child Virtual Conference, entitled “Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,” will run May 6–10, 2013. The free and exclusively online event—which attracted more than 900 participants last year—offers educators around the globe 24 sessions to support their work to implement and sustain a whole child approach to education. Read the full press release. ASCD Names 2013 Elected Leaders and Affiliate Awards Recipients—ASCD announced Becky J. Berg—superintendent of the Deer Park School District in Deer Park, Wash. —as the association’s new President. Berg took office at the conclusion of ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., on March 18. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Interactive 2012 Annual Report—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of the association’s 2012 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Solutions: The ASCD Revolution in Motion.” This report showcases the association’s achievements and serves as a resource discovery tool for educators who seek programs, products, and services that empower them to support the success of each learner. Read the full press release. Florida Association of District School Superintendents Launches Professional Development Partnership with ASCD—At ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, ASCD and the Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS) announced a new partnership to provide FADSS members statewide with customized professional development that will build participants’ capacity for successfully leading, supporting, and monitoring the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in their districts. Read the full press release. ASCD Selects Washington State Deputy Superintendent and Maryland Teacher as 2013 Outstanding Young Educators—At ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., Joshua Garcia, deputy superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools in Tacoma, Wash., and Ryan Twentey, a photography teacher at Parkville High School in Parkville, Md., were announced as winners of the association’s prestigious 2013 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA). Read the full press release. Oregon's Milwaukie High School Named 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award Winner—ASCD announced that Milwaukie High School, located in Milwaukie, Ore., is the 2013 winner of the association’s Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. Principal Mark Pinder accepted the award on behalf of Milwaukie High School from ASCD Executive Director and CEO Dr. Gene R. Carter at ASCD's 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., on Sunday, March 17. Read the full press release.   Thanks for a fantastic 2013 ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois! Read ASCD Executive Director Dr. Gene Carter’s annual conference reflections here. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders  Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   Register for the Whole Child Virtual Conference: May 6–10, 2013 Join ASCD for its third annual Whole Child Virtual Conference. This free online event offers thought leadership discussions; presentations from leading authors and experts; and an exploration of the steps outstanding schools, communities, and individual countries take as they move along the continuum of a whole child approach—from implementation to sustainability to culture. No matter where you are on this continuum, you’ll find lessons you can learn and questions you can ask to improve and grow your schools. This year the conference will include 24 sessions over 7 days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern time, with sessions on May 2 and 3 specifically for Australasian and European audiences. This year’s conference speakers include authors and experts Thomas Armstrong, Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves, Eric Jensen, Wendy Ostroff, William Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge, Pasi Sahlberg, and Yong Zhao. Sessions will also feature presentations from ASCD Emerging Leaders, ASCD’s Outstanding Young Educators Award winner, the recipient of Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award, and members of ASCD’s Whole Child Network of Schools. Registration is now open. Go to www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference to sign up.   ASCD Nominations Committee Applications Open in May ASCD is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in serving on the 2013–14 ASCD Nominations Committee. More information—the committee’s charge, qualifications for service, and time commitment—will be available starting May 1 on www.ascd.org. ASCD will be accepting applications May 1–31. We invite ASCD leaders to consider their interest in this opportunity over the next few weeks before the application becomes available.     ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   ASCD Student Chapters Help Chicago’s Hungry During ASCD Annual Conference On March 15, 46 ASCD Student Chapter members volunteered to make a difference in the fight against hunger in Chicago. Working together the Friday morning before ASCD’s Annual Conference, the students packaged more than 15,000 pounds of food to help feed the nearly 678,000 people who rely on emergency and supplemental food from the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Thank you and congratulations to our ASCD Student Chapter volunteers! Read the full Conference Daily article. ASCD Forum Session at ASCD Annual Conference Gives Educators a Voice on Teacher and Principal Effectiveness On March 17, ASCD Past President Debra Hill facilitated a discussion of the ASCD Forum topic “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” Ten ASCD leaders stepped forward to help lead the discussion: ·         Jason Flom, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Ben Shuldiner, Position Advisory Committee Member ·         Amy Vanden Boogart, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Jeffrey Lofthus, Alaska ASCD Executive Director ·         Daina Lieberman, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator ·         Laurie McCullough, Virginia ASCD Executive Director ·         Alice Wells, Arizona ASCD Executive Director ·         Matthew Cotton, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Torian White, ASCD Emerging Leader   Session attendees stepped up to the front of the room to share their thoughts and also posted tweets to the #ASCDForum hashtag. Many thanks to the ASCD leaders who participated to make this session a success!   Congratulations to ASCD Affiliate Recognition Award Winners Please join ASCD in congratulating the ASCD Affiliate Recognition Award Recipients: Two affiliates were recognized for the 2013 Overall Excellence Award: Iowa ASCD, for its increased focus on integrating technology into professional learning opportunities and their influence and advocacy work with ASCD, and New Hampshire ASCD, for its work to increase membership and provide increased professional learning opportunities, such as Common Core workshops. In addition, New Jersey ASCD received the Area Excellence Award for Programs, Products, and Services for their leadership in their state as a trusted source for professional learning. Texas ASCD received an Exceptional Progress Award in Influence and Policy, and Alberta ASCD, Ohio ASCD, and Vermont ASCD were all recipients of the Exceptional Progress Award in Programs, Products, and Services. Read the Conference Daily article.   Welcome to the “Educating Beyond Disabilities” Professional Interest Community Please join ASCD in welcoming our newest Professional Interest Community, facilitated by 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Christina Yuknis. Please join her group on ASCD EDge.   Tennessee ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series Weasked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the sixth post of the series, Tennessee ASCD President-Elect John Combs writes about the challenges and successes that Tennessee has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:New Jersey ASCD,Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD Congratulations! ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn wrote an article for this month’s Educational Leadership issue on The Principalship. Read her article “First-Year Hurdles” on ascd.org. ASCD Emerging Leader Craig Martin is featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Teachers of Color Magazine.Read the article (PDF). Niles West High School Dean and ASCD Emerging Leader Alum Antwan Babakhani has been promoted to be the school’s new assistant principal effective July 1. Read more about Antwan. ASCD Emerging Leader Torian White was featured in a blog post for the points he made during the ASCD Forum discussion. Read the post about Torian.   Other News ASCD Emerging Leaders Curtis Pelham,Amy Murphy, and Armentress Robinson were recently featured in the ASCDInservice blog “8 Questions” series.  Check out Fred Ende’sWhole Child Blog post, “Exceeding Needs Through a Partnership Perspective.” Minnesota ASCD’sSpring Conference, “Creating a Highly Engaged Classroom,” takes place on April 25.  South Carolina ASCD’s Spring Conference was a huge success! Read more at scascd.org. Check out Illinois ASCD’s revised website. Five new members joined the ASCD Board of Directors at ASCD Annual Conference. Read the press release.   Meet ASCD President Becky Berg Becky J. Berg is from a family of educators. "My dad was a school board president; my mom was a career educator; and my sister, my grandmother, and my great-grandfather were educators," she says. Despite the genetic pull, Berg wasn't completely convinced she would follow in the family's footsteps until her experience as a summer camp counselor while she was in college. It was then that she realized how much she loved working with kids. Read the full Conference Daily article.   Congratulations to the 2013 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winners! ASCD salutes a new generation’s passion for education excellence through this year’s selection of two Outstanding Young Educator Award winners: Joshua Garcia, deputy superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools (Wash.), and Parkville High School  (Parkville, Md.) teacher Ryan Twentey. Twentey teaches art, photography, and interactive media production and also serves as the school’s technology liaison. Read the full Conference Daily article.   Interactive ASCD 2012 Annual Report Features ASCD Leaders Check out the ASCD 2012 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Solutions: The ASCD Revolution in Motion.” This interactive report features videos footage of ASCD leaders, including ASCD Emerging Leader Steven Anderson, Florida ASCD President Alina Davis, Alabama ASCD Executive Director Jane Cobia, ASCD Board Member Harriet Arnold, and Connecticut ASCD President David Cormier. Throughout April at wholechildeducation.org: Principal Leadership Principals are the key players in developing the climate, culture, and processes in their schools. They are critical to implementing meaningful and lasting school change and in the ongoing school-improvement process. Principals who have a clear vision; inspire and engage others in embracing change for improvement; drive, facilitate, and monitor the teaching and learning process; and foster a cohesive culture of learning are the collaborative leaders our schools need to fully commit to ensuring each student—and school staff member—is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. What qualities do principals in today’s (and tomorrow’s) schools need to fulfill their roles as visionary, instructional, influential, and learning leaders? There are two episodes of the Whole Child Podcast in April for you to download and share. The first episode, “Leveling and Raising the Playing Field,” features school staff from Oregon’s Milwaukie High School, winner of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award, and is available now. On April 11, the second episode will be available. It will focus on principal leadership and include guests Kevin Enerson, principal of Whole Child Network school Le Sueur-Henderson High School in Minnesota, and Jessica Bohn, ASCD Emerging Leader and principal of  Gibsonville Elementary School in North Carolina. Throughout the month, read the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples.   The Best-Case Scenario As we review and reinforce our schools’ safety measures, we aren’t planning for the worst-case scenario that might happen; we are working to make sure the best-case scenario—where schools are learning environments that are physically, socially, and emotionally safe for students and adults—is an everyday occurrence that does happen. Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In February and March, we looked at what we, as educators, believe is crucial to making our schools safe—not just physically safe, but also safe places to teach and learn. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Joseph Bergant II, superintendent of Chardon Schools in Ohio; Howard Adelman, professor of psychology at UCLA and codirector of the School Mental Health Project and the Center for Mental Health in Schools (a whole child partner); and Jonathan Cohen, adjunct professor in psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and president and cofounder of whole child partner National School Climate Center. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read the latest newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.    Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Announces 2013 Conference on Teaching Excellence in National Harbor, Md.—ASCD will host its Conference on Teaching Excellence June 28–30, 2013, in National Harbor, Md. The conference—which will take place over two and a half days—will focus on the topic of teaching excellence and will have more than 150 sessions tailored for educators of all levels, including teachers, teacher leaders, principals, and district supervisors. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces New Spring and Summer Professional Development Institutes Supporting Common Core Implementation—ASCD announces new one- and two-day Professional Development Institutes supporting educators nationwide as they implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Read the full press release. The Third Annual ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference Launches May 6, 2013—ASCD’s third annual Whole Child Virtual Conference, entitled “Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,” will run May 6–10, 2013. The free and exclusively online event—which attracted more than 900 participants last year—offers educators around the globe 24 sessions to support their work to implement and sustain a whole child approach to education. Read the full press release. ASCD Names 2013 Elected Leaders and Affiliate Awards Recipients—ASCD announced Becky J. Berg—superintendent of the Deer Park School District in Deer Park, Wash. —as the association’s new President. Berg took office at the conclusion of ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., on March 18. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Interactive 2012 Annual Report—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of the association’s 2012 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Solutions: The ASCD Revolution in Motion.” This report showcases the association’s achievements and serves as a resource discovery tool for educators who seek programs, products, and services that empower them to support the success of each learner. Read the full press release. Florida Association of District School Superintendents Launches Professional Development Partnership with ASCD—At ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, ASCD and the Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS) announced a new partnership to provide FADSS members statewide with customized professional development that will build participants’ capacity for successfully leading, supporting, and monitoring the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in their districts. Read the full press release. ASCD Selects Washington State Deputy Superintendent and Maryland Teacher as 2013 Outstanding Young Educators—At ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., Joshua Garcia, deputy superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools in Tacoma, Wash., and Ryan Twentey, a photography teacher at Parkville High School in Parkville, Md., were announced as winners of the association’s prestigious 2013 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA). Read the full press release. Oregon's Milwaukie High School Named 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award Winner—ASCD announced that Milwaukie High School, located in Milwaukie, Ore., is the 2013 winner of the association’s Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. Principal Mark Pinder accepted the award on behalf of Milwaukie High School from ASCD Executive Director and CEO Dr. Gene R. Carter at ASCD's 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., on Sunday, March 17. Read the full press release. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:05:37 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-April-2013/blog/6519920/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-04-12T19:05:37Z ASCD EDge   Thanks for a fantastic 2013 ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois! Read ASCD Executive Director Dr. Gene Carter’s annual conference reflections here. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders  Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   Register for the Whole Child Virtual Conference: May 6–10, 2013 Join ASCD for its third annual Whole Child Virtual Conference. This free online event offers thought leadership discussions; presentations from leading authors and experts; and an exploration of the steps outstanding schools, communities, and individual countries take as they move along the continuum of a whole child approach—from implementation to sustainability to culture. No matter where you are on this continuum, you’ll find lessons you can learn and questions you can ask to improve and grow your schools. This year the conference will include 24 sessions over 7 days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern time, with sessions on May 2 and 3 specifically for Australasian and European audiences. This year’s conference speakers include authors and experts Thomas Armstrong, Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves, Eric Jensen, Wendy Ostroff, William Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge, Pasi Sahlberg, and Yong Zhao. Sessions will also feature presentations from ASCD Emerging Leaders, ASCD’s Outstanding Young Educators Award winner, the recipient of Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award, and members of ASCD’s Whole Child Network of Schools. Registration is now open. Go to www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference to sign up.   ASCD Nominations Committee Applications Open in May ASCD is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in serving on the 2013–14 ASCD Nominations Committee. More information—the committee’s charge, qualifications for service, and time commitment—will be available starting May 1 on www.ascd.org. ASCD will be accepting applications May 1–31. We invite ASCD leaders to consider their interest in this opportunity over the next few weeks before the application becomes available.     ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   ASCD Student Chapters Help Chicago’s Hungry During ASCD Annual Conference On March 15, 46 ASCD Student Chapter members volunteered to make a difference in the fight against hunger in Chicago. Working together the Friday morning before ASCD’s Annual Conference, the students packaged more than 15,000 pounds of food to help feed the nearly 678,000 people who rely on emergency and supplemental food from the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Thank you and congratulations to our ASCD Student Chapter volunteers! Read the full Conference Daily article. ASCD Forum Session at ASCD Annual Conference Gives Educators a Voice on Teacher and Principal Effectiveness On March 17, ASCD Past President Debra Hill facilitated a discussion of the ASCD Forum topic “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” Ten ASCD leaders stepped forward to help lead the discussion: ·         Jason Flom, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Ben Shuldiner, Position Advisory Committee Member ·         Amy Vanden Boogart, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Jeffrey Lofthus, Alaska ASCD Executive Director ·         Daina Lieberman, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator ·         Laurie McCullough, Virginia ASCD Executive Director ·         Alice Wells, Arizona ASCD Executive Director ·         Matthew Cotton, ASCD Emerging Leader ·         Torian White, ASCD Emerging Leader   Session attendees stepped up to the front of the room to share their thoughts and also posted tweets to the #ASCDForum hashtag. Many thanks to the ASCD leaders who participated to make this session a success!   Congratulations to ASCD Affiliate Recognition Award Winners Please join ASCD in congratulating the ASCD Affiliate Recognition Award Recipients: Two affiliates were recognized for the 2013 Overall Excellence Award: Iowa ASCD, for its increased focus on integrating technology into professional learning opportunities and their influence and advocacy work with ASCD, and New Hampshire ASCD, for its work to increase membership and provide increased professional learning opportunities, such as Common Core workshops. In addition, New Jersey ASCD received the Area Excellence Award for Programs, Products, and Services for their leadership in their state as a trusted source for professional learning. Texas ASCD received an Exceptional Progress Award in Influence and Policy, and Alberta ASCD, Ohio ASCD, and Vermont ASCD were all recipients of the Exceptional Progress Award in Programs, Products, and Services. Read the Conference Daily article.   Welcome to the “Educating Beyond Disabilities” Professional Interest Community Please join ASCD in welcoming our newest Professional Interest Community, facilitated by 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Christina Yuknis. Please join her group on ASCD EDge.   Tennessee ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series Weasked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the sixth post of the series, Tennessee ASCD President-Elect John Combs writes about the challenges and successes that Tennessee has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:New Jersey ASCD,Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD Congratulations! ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn wrote an article for this month’s Educational Leadership issue on The Principalship. Read her article “First-Year Hurdles” on ascd.org. ASCD Emerging Leader Craig Martin is featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Teachers of Color Magazine.Read the article (PDF). Niles West High School Dean and ASCD Emerging Leader Alum Antwan Babakhani has been promoted to be the school’s new assistant principal effective July 1. Read more about Antwan. ASCD Emerging Leader Torian White was featured in a blog post for the points he made during the ASCD Forum discussion. Read the post about Torian.   Other News ASCD Emerging Leaders Curtis Pelham,Amy Murphy, and Armentress Robinson were recently featured in the ASCDInservice blog “8 Questions” series.  Check out Fred Ende’sWhole Child Blog post, “Exceeding Needs Through a Partnership Perspective.” Minnesota ASCD’sSpring Conference, “Creating a Highly Engaged Classroom,” takes place on April 25.  South Carolina ASCD’s Spring Conference was a huge success! Read more at scascd.org. Check out Illinois ASCD’s revised website. Five new members joined the ASCD Board of Directors at ASCD Annual Conference. Read the press release.   Meet ASCD President Becky Berg Becky J. Berg is from a family of educators. "My dad was a school board president; my mom was a career educator; and my sister, my grandmother, and my great-grandfather were educators," she says. Despite the genetic pull, Berg wasn't completely convinced she would follow in the family's footsteps until her experience as a summer camp counselor while she was in college. It was then that she realized how much she loved working with kids. Read the full Conference Daily article.   Congratulations to the 2013 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winners! ASCD salutes a new generation’s passion for education excellence through this year’s selection of two Outstanding Young Educator Award winners: Joshua Garcia, deputy superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools (Wash.), and Parkville High School  (Parkville, Md.) teacher Ryan Twentey. Twentey teaches art, photography, and interactive media production and also serves as the school’s technology liaison. Read the full Conference Daily article.   Interactive ASCD 2012 Annual Report Features ASCD Leaders Check out the ASCD 2012 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Solutions: The ASCD Revolution in Motion.” This interactive report features videos footage of ASCD leaders, including ASCD Emerging Leader Steven Anderson, Florida ASCD President Alina Davis, Alabama ASCD Executive Director Jane Cobia, ASCD Board Member Harriet Arnold, and Connecticut ASCD President David Cormier. Throughout April at wholechildeducation.org: Principal Leadership Principals are the key players in developing the climate, culture, and processes in their schools. They are critical to implementing meaningful and lasting school change and in the ongoing school-improvement process. Principals who have a clear vision; inspire and engage others in embracing change for improvement; drive, facilitate, and monitor the teaching and learning process; and foster a cohesive culture of learning are the collaborative leaders our schools need to fully commit to ensuring each student—and school staff member—is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. What qualities do principals in today’s (and tomorrow’s) schools need to fulfill their roles as visionary, instructional, influential, and learning leaders? There are two episodes of the Whole Child Podcast in April for you to download and share. The first episode, “Leveling and Raising the Playing Field,” features school staff from Oregon’s Milwaukie High School, winner of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award, and is available now. On April 11, the second episode will be available. It will focus on principal leadership and include guests Kevin Enerson, principal of Whole Child Network school Le Sueur-Henderson High School in Minnesota, and Jessica Bohn, ASCD Emerging Leader and principal of  Gibsonville Elementary School in North Carolina. Throughout the month, read the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples.   The Best-Case Scenario As we review and reinforce our schools’ safety measures, we aren’t planning for the worst-case scenario that might happen; we are working to make sure the best-case scenario—where schools are learning environments that are physically, socially, and emotionally safe for students and adults—is an everyday occurrence that does happen. Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In February and March, we looked at what we, as educators, believe is crucial to making our schools safe—not just physically safe, but also safe places to teach and learn. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Joseph Bergant II, superintendent of Chardon Schools in Ohio; Howard Adelman, professor of psychology at UCLA and codirector of the School Mental Health Project and the Center for Mental Health in Schools (a whole child partner); and Jonathan Cohen, adjunct professor in psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and president and cofounder of whole child partner National School Climate Center. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read the latest newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.    Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Announces 2013 Conference on Teaching Excellence in National Harbor, Md.—ASCD will host its Conference on Teaching Excellence June 28–30, 2013, in National Harbor, Md. The conference—which will take place over two and a half days—will focus on the topic of teaching excellence and will have more than 150 sessions tailored for educators of all levels, including teachers, teacher leaders, principals, and district supervisors. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces New Spring and Summer Professional Development Institutes Supporting Common Core Implementation—ASCD announces new one- and two-day Professional Development Institutes supporting educators nationwide as they implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Read the full press release. The Third Annual ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference Launches May 6, 2013—ASCD’s third annual Whole Child Virtual Conference, entitled “Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,” will run May 6–10, 2013. The free and exclusively online event—which attracted more than 900 participants last year—offers educators around the globe 24 sessions to support their work to implement and sustain a whole child approach to education. Read the full press release. ASCD Names 2013 Elected Leaders and Affiliate Awards Recipients—ASCD announced Becky J. Berg—superintendent of the Deer Park School District in Deer Park, Wash. —as the association’s new President. Berg took office at the conclusion of ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., on March 18. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Interactive 2012 Annual Report—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of the association’s 2012 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Solutions: The ASCD Revolution in Motion.” This report showcases the association’s achievements and serves as a resource discovery tool for educators who seek programs, products, and services that empower them to support the success of each learner. Read the full press release. Florida Association of District School Superintendents Launches Professional Development Partnership with ASCD—At ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, ASCD and the Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS) announced a new partnership to provide FADSS members statewide with customized professional development that will build participants’ capacity for successfully leading, supporting, and monitoring the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in their districts. Read the full press release. ASCD Selects Washington State Deputy Superintendent and Maryland Teacher as 2013 Outstanding Young Educators—At ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., Joshua Garcia, deputy superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools in Tacoma, Wash., and Ryan Twentey, a photography teacher at Parkville High School in Parkville, Md., were announced as winners of the association’s prestigious 2013 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA). Read the full press release. Oregon's Milwaukie High School Named 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award Winner—ASCD announced that Milwaukie High School, located in Milwaukie, Ore., is the 2013 winner of the association’s Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. Principal Mark Pinder accepted the award on behalf of Milwaukie High School from ASCD Executive Director and CEO Dr. Gene R. Carter at ASCD's 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Chicago, Ill., on Sunday, March 17. Read the full press release. nonadult false L2L News: April 2013 text blog 144 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6519920 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Forum-How-Do-We-Define-and-Measure-Teacher-and-Principal-Effectiveness/blog/6518900/127586.html Across the globe, nations, districts, schools, and individuals face a timely and complex issue:   How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness? Is there a definitive answer to this challenging question? We’re not sure, but since January, ASCD has convened the ASCD Forum to focus educator conversation and insight on this important topic.   From now until April 12, ASCD is seeking feedback on the following questions: How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31–April 6) How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7–12)   How to join the discussion: ASCD EDge® social networking platform: ASCD invites you to join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge and write one or more blog posts on educator effectiveness. We ask that blog posts adhere to the following guidelines: Tags: We ask that all ASCD Forum posts be written through your free profile on ASCD EDge and tagged to the ASCD Forum group. In order to tag your post to the group, you need to join the ASCD Forum group. When writing your blog post draft, the bottom of the page has an option called “Add blog post to groups.” Select “ASCD Forum” before selecting “add blog post” to publish your post.  Structure: Feel free to structure your blog post any way you like; it can be a personal story, research, tips, an opinion piece, resources, and so forth. If your piece is more than 500 words, we recommend breaking it up into a series of several posts over several days.  Format: We ask that you include the following header in your blog post:This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.  Number of posts: You can contribute any number of posts to the ASCD Forum. We are looking for a rich, diverse online conversation with as much participation from as many educators as possible.   Review: ASCD Forum posts do not need to be approved or reviewed before you post them. If you would like feedback on a blog post draft, please send it to constituentservices@ascd.org, and ASCD staff will give you feedback within two business days.   We also invite you to comment on other ASCD Forum posts to help us cultivate a deep and comprehensive conversation on educator effectiveness: Where's the Love? Every Teacher a Teacher of Reading: How Teacher Preparation Programs Can Help Teachers to Meet the Common Core Standards Nurturing Effective Teachers: Priceless! Making Teacher Observation Matter Use Emotional Intelligence as an Effectiveness Tool Both Sides of the Scale The Road to Principalship and Beyond Reflecting on Teacher Preparation Programs Keepin' it Real: Preparation Pathways that Work What is the Role and Responsibility of Educator Preparation Programs to Foster and Sustain Effectiveness? Lift Your Voice, Share Your Story Stretch Your Capacity Mosaic of Effectiveness   You can also join the conversation on Twitter: All tweets relating to the ASCD Forum should include the #ASCDForum hashtag. If you would like to share a resource on educator effectiveness or promote your ASCD EDge blog post, please add the hashtag to your tweet.   We hope you will join us for this conversation, which is the first of its kind for ASCD. The ASCD Forum was created to give educators a voice on education issues of worldwide significance. We are excited for this unique challenge and we hope you are too.   Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org or find me on Twitter @msimps01. Across the globe, nations, districts, schools, and individuals face a timely and complex issue:   How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness? Is there a definitive answer to this challenging question? We’re not sure, but since January, ASCD has convened the ASCD Forum to focus educator conversation and insight on this important topic.   From now until April 12, ASCD is seeking feedback on the following questions: How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31–April 6) How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7–12)   How to join the discussion: ASCD EDge® social networking platform: ASCD invites you to join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge and write one or more blog posts on educator effectiveness. We ask that blog posts adhere to the following guidelines: Tags: We ask that all ASCD Forum posts be written through your free profile on ASCD EDge and tagged to the ASCD Forum group. In order to tag your post to the group, you need to join the ASCD Forum group. When writing your blog post draft, the bottom of the page has an option called “Add blog post to groups.” Select “ASCD Forum” before selecting “add blog post” to publish your post.  Structure: Feel free to structure your blog post any way you like; it can be a personal story, research, tips, an opinion piece, resources, and so forth. If your piece is more than 500 words, we recommend breaking it up into a series of several posts over several days.  Format: We ask that you include the following header in your blog post:This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.  Number of posts: You can contribute any number of posts to the ASCD Forum. We are looking for a rich, diverse online conversation with as much participation from as many educators as possible.   Review: ASCD Forum posts do not need to be approved or reviewed before you post them. If you would like feedback on a blog post draft, please send it to constituentservices@ascd.org, and ASCD staff will give you feedback within two business days.   We also invite you to comment on other ASCD Forum posts to help us cultivate a deep and comprehensive conversation on educator effectiveness: Where's the Love? Every Teacher a Teacher of Reading: How Teacher Preparation Programs Can Help Teachers to Meet the Common Core Standards Nurturing Effective Teachers: Priceless! Making Teacher Observation Matter Use Emotional Intelligence as an Effectiveness Tool Both Sides of the Scale The Road to Principalship and Beyond Reflecting on Teacher Preparation Programs Keepin' it Real: Preparation Pathways that Work What is the Role and Responsibility of Educator Preparation Programs to Foster and Sustain Effectiveness? Lift Your Voice, Share Your Story Stretch Your Capacity Mosaic of Effectiveness   You can also join the conversation on Twitter: All tweets relating to the ASCD Forum should include the #ASCDForum hashtag. If you would like to share a resource on educator effectiveness or promote your ASCD EDge blog post, please add the hashtag to your tweet.   We hope you will join us for this conversation, which is the first of its kind for ASCD. The ASCD Forum was created to give educators a voice on education issues of worldwide significance. We are excited for this unique challenge and we hope you are too.   Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org or find me on Twitter @msimps01. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:04:58 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Forum-How-Do-We-Define-and-Measure-Teacher-and-Principal-Effectiveness/blog/6518900/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-04-04T22:04:58Z ASCD EDge Across the globe, nations, districts, schools, and individuals face a timely and complex issue:   How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness? Is there a definitive answer to this challenging question? We’re not sure, but since January, ASCD has convened the ASCD Forum to focus educator conversation and insight on this important topic.   From now until April 12, ASCD is seeking feedback on the following questions: How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31–April 6) How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7–12)   How to join the discussion: ASCD EDge® social networking platform: ASCD invites you to join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge and write one or more blog posts on educator effectiveness. We ask that blog posts adhere to the following guidelines: Tags: We ask that all ASCD Forum posts be written through your free profile on ASCD EDge and tagged to the ASCD Forum group. In order to tag your post to the group, you need to join the ASCD Forum group. When writing your blog post draft, the bottom of the page has an option called “Add blog post to groups.” Select “ASCD Forum” before selecting “add blog post” to publish your post.  Structure: Feel free to structure your blog post any way you like; it can be a personal story, research, tips, an opinion piece, resources, and so forth. If your piece is more than 500 words, we recommend breaking it up into a series of several posts over several days.  Format: We ask that you include the following header in your blog post:This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.  Number of posts: You can contribute any number of posts to the ASCD Forum. We are looking for a rich, diverse online conversation with as much participation from as many educators as possible.   Review: ASCD Forum posts do not need to be approved or reviewed before you post them. If you would like feedback on a blog post draft, please send it to constituentservices@ascd.org, and ASCD staff will give you feedback within two business days.   We also invite you to comment on other ASCD Forum posts to help us cultivate a deep and comprehensive conversation on educator effectiveness: Where's the Love? Every Teacher a Teacher of Reading: How Teacher Preparation Programs Can Help Teachers to Meet the Common Core Standards Nurturing Effective Teachers: Priceless! Making Teacher Observation Matter Use Emotional Intelligence as an Effectiveness Tool Both Sides of the Scale The Road to Principalship and Beyond Reflecting on Teacher Preparation Programs Keepin' it Real: Preparation Pathways that Work What is the Role and Responsibility of Educator Preparation Programs to Foster and Sustain Effectiveness? Lift Your Voice, Share Your Story Stretch Your Capacity Mosaic of Effectiveness   You can also join the conversation on Twitter: All tweets relating to the ASCD Forum should include the #ASCDForum hashtag. If you would like to share a resource on educator effectiveness or promote your ASCD EDge blog post, please add the hashtag to your tweet.   We hope you will join us for this conversation, which is the first of its kind for ASCD. The ASCD Forum was created to give educators a voice on education issues of worldwide significance. We are excited for this unique challenge and we hope you are too.   Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org or find me on Twitter @msimps01. nonadult false ASCD Forum: How Do We Define and Measure Teacher and Principal Effectiveness? text blog 604 10 5.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6518900 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-March-2013/blog/6516002/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders We are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org.  Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.  Nominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. ASCD is accepting nominations and applications for the Emerging Leaders program until April 1. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/emergingleaders  Attending ASCD Annual Conference? We hope to see you in Chicago this weekend at ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference: Our Story, Our Time, Our Future. Here are a few tips as you head out for St. Patrick’s Day weekend: Download the ASCD Conference app. Search “ASCD” in your mobile app store or go to www.ascd.org/ascd13app. Plan your sessions, access social media activity, get up-to-the-minute news on ASCD Annual Conference, and more.  If applicable, read the First Timer’s Guide on ASCD Inservice.  Read Getting Your Game Plan Together for #ASCD13 on ASCD Inservice.  Follow the #ASCD13 hashtag on Twitter to connect with other attendees. Consider attending the Tweetup on March 16 as well.   Can’t make it to Chicago? Attend the ASCD Virtual Conference instead!   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” The current discussion theme (March 3-16) is: Educator Evaluation Systems: What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Upcoming themes include: Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6) Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum concludes April 12. We invite educators to join the conversation by blogging on the ASCD EDge®social network, commenting on other blog posts, taking a survey, and attending a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversations will inform the ASCD Board of Directors’ position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.   Newest Policy Points Highlights Teacher Evaluation ASCD’s newest issue of Policy Points (PDF) spotlights the association’s original 50-state analysis of educator evaluation systems as outlined in states’ NCLB waiver applications and other resources; it features a series of maps for easy comparison of key evaluation system components across the states. The resource provides graphic depictions of the frequency of state teacher evaluations, the rating levels used by states to rate teacher performance, and the extent to which states use student learning data in teacher evaluations.     Save the Date! ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference: Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture May 2–10, 2013 How can schools implement and sustain a whole child approach to education? ASCD invites you to participate in the free, online Whole Child Virtual Conference from May 2–10, 2013. You will ·         Hear from renowned speakers, including Pasi Sahlberg, Michael Fullan, and Andy Hargreaves. ·         Learn from educators, authors, and experts who have successfully implemented a whole child approach in schools around the world. ·         Discover the steps taken by ASCD’s Vision in Action award-winning schools and Whole Child Network schools to implement comprehensive, sustainable school improvement and provide for long-term student success. ·         Discuss how you can bring a whole child approach into your schools. Twenty sessions will be broadcast live over five days, May 6–10, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, with additional sessions on May 2 and 3 for Australasian and European audiences. No matter where your school falls on the whole child continuum, be it the early implementation stage or well beyond, the Whole Child Virtual Conference provides a forum and tools for school sites and districts that are working toward sustainability and changing school cultures to serve the whole child. Register Now! Go to www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference   Throughout March at wholechildeducation.org: Reducing Barriers and Expanding Opportunities Addressing students' needs levels the playing field. Or rather, addressing students' needs is only leveling the playing field. If a child is hungry, then schools can address the need by providing breakfast, lunch, and assistance as needed. The same applies if the child is unwell. Many schools have made great strides in addressing students' needs, but some schools have gone further. They have taken an issue that was initially a need and used it to enhance and improve what the school offers. Join us throughout March as we look at schools that have taken a deficit and turned it into an asset. Some schools have used connections formed into and across the community to enhance and build on what they first envisaged. Other schools are forming alliances to improve a specific situation and have then used those same alliances to improve the entire school. How has your school or community taken a challenge and turned it into a win? Check out the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples. We are taping this month’s Whole Child Podcast in front of a live audience at ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, on Saturday, March 16, in Chicago, Ill. Joining hosts Sean Slade and Donna Snyder of ASCD’s Whole Child Programs team will be representatives from the winning school of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award as they discuss this month's topic and what works in today's schools. The podcast will be available for download on Monday, March 18.   ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   New Jersey ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.  In the fifth post of the series, New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Marie Adair writes about the challenges and successes that New Jersey has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation The ASCD Forum has begun, and you’re invited to be a part of it! Check out these ASCD EDge posts on teacher and principal effectiveness: Be Prepared: The ASCD Forum Discusses Educator Preparation Programs Use Emotional Intelligence as an Effectiveness Tool and Both Sides of the Scale by Professional Interest Community Facilitator Mamzelle Adolphine The Road to Principalship and Beyond by 2012 Emerging Leader Dawn Imada Chan Making Teacher Observation Matter by Virginia ASCD Executive Director Laurie McCullough Conversation is also taking place in the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge, and the #ASCDForum hashtag on Twitter. You are also invited to join us for a live face-to-face session at Annual Conference that will also stream live via Virtual Conference. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   ASCD Leaders to Ignite ASCD Annual Conference With the tagline “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presentations are a fast-paced, breathtaking, and inspiring way to share stories. Each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide automatically advances every 15 seconds; this format keeps the presentations moving quickly. The following ASCD leaders will present their Whole Child stories in Ignite session format at ASCD Conference on Saturday, March 16: 2011 Emerging Leader Kimberly White Glenn 2010 Emerging Leader and Maryland ASCD President-Elect David Stovenour Western Kentucky University Student Chapter Leaders Rachel Glass and Kateiri Kintz with Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Rebecca Stobaugh 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community Facilitator Michael Rulon ASCD Board of Directors Member Gabriel Rshaid OYEA Honoree and 2010 Emerging Leader Dallas Dance 2012 Emerging Leader Ember Conley 2010 Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Jason Flom Please join us for an exciting Saturday afternoon session from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.!   Welcome to the new Common Core Professional Interest Community We are pleased to announce the newest ASCD Professional Interest Community: Common Core in the Classroom facilitated by Suzy Brooks of Massachusetts ASCD! The group will share ideas and resources for implementing the Common Core State Standards in instruction. Please join the group on ASCD EDge. Congratulations to Matthew Cotton 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Matthew Cotton has been selected to serve as a reviewer for the music standards by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Matthew was identified from among hundreds of applicants and nominees nationwide as an expert in an area of music education who can contribute to this process. Congratulations to Matthew on this exciting achievement!   Check Out These Great Pieces by ASCD Leaders ASCD Express: Three Strategies for Encouraging and Developing Student Voice by ASCD Leader Dawn Imada Chan, and cross-posted to the Whole Child Blog.  Whole Child Blog: Our Children Are Counting On Us by ASCD Board of Directors Member and former OYEA Winner Marc Cohen  ASCD Inservice: Eight Questions for Emerging Leader Kim Glenn  Get to the Core Webinar Series:Implementing the Common Core: Transform Principals into Instructional Leaders with 2012 Emerging Leader Michael DeCaprio(this webinar was recorded March 6, and will be archived soon)  Whole Child Blog: Safer, Not Safe by 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson  Lab Out Loud: STEM in Primary Classrooms by 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson  Washington ASCD’s Spring issue of Curriculum in Context: A Systematic Approach to Implementing Innovation (p. 25) by 2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro   Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Continues Expansion of Award-Winning Professional Development Offering with New PD In Focus Videos and PD Online Courses—ASCD announces the release of two new PD In Focus® videos and three new PD Online® courses. These new resources address a variety of topics important to educators today, including instructional leadership, formative assessment, and Common Core State Standards implementation. Read the full press release. ASCD Makes Professional Development E-books Available Through International Retailer Kobo—ASCD is pleased to announce that its e-books are now available through Kobo, a global leader in e-reading. More than 80 of ASCD’s professional development e-books are now available at www.kobo.com to educators in 200 countries, and counting. Read the full press release. ASCD Introduces New Conference App, Offers Support for First-Time Attendees—Attendees at ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, held March 16–18, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., will be able to improve their conference and professional development experience by downloading a new ASCD app that puts important conference information at their fingertips. Read the full press release.   ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders We are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org.  Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.  Nominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. ASCD is accepting nominations and applications for the Emerging Leaders program until April 1. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/emergingleaders  Attending ASCD Annual Conference? We hope to see you in Chicago this weekend at ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference: Our Story, Our Time, Our Future. Here are a few tips as you head out for St. Patrick’s Day weekend: Download the ASCD Conference app. Search “ASCD” in your mobile app store or go to www.ascd.org/ascd13app. Plan your sessions, access social media activity, get up-to-the-minute news on ASCD Annual Conference, and more.  If applicable, read the First Timer’s Guide on ASCD Inservice.  Read Getting Your Game Plan Together for #ASCD13 on ASCD Inservice.  Follow the #ASCD13 hashtag on Twitter to connect with other attendees. Consider attending the Tweetup on March 16 as well.   Can’t make it to Chicago? Attend the ASCD Virtual Conference instead!   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” The current discussion theme (March 3-16) is: Educator Evaluation Systems: What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Upcoming themes include: Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6) Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum concludes April 12. We invite educators to join the conversation by blogging on the ASCD EDge®social network, commenting on other blog posts, taking a survey, and attending a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversations will inform the ASCD Board of Directors’ position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.   Newest Policy Points Highlights Teacher Evaluation ASCD’s newest issue of Policy Points (PDF) spotlights the association’s original 50-state analysis of educator evaluation systems as outlined in states’ NCLB waiver applications and other resources; it features a series of maps for easy comparison of key evaluation system components across the states. The resource provides graphic depictions of the frequency of state teacher evaluations, the rating levels used by states to rate teacher performance, and the extent to which states use student learning data in teacher evaluations.     Save the Date! ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference: Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture May 2–10, 2013 How can schools implement and sustain a whole child approach to education? ASCD invites you to participate in the free, online Whole Child Virtual Conference from May 2–10, 2013. You will ·         Hear from renowned speakers, including Pasi Sahlberg, Michael Fullan, and Andy Hargreaves. ·         Learn from educators, authors, and experts who have successfully implemented a whole child approach in schools around the world. ·         Discover the steps taken by ASCD’s Vision in Action award-winning schools and Whole Child Network schools to implement comprehensive, sustainable school improvement and provide for long-term student success. ·         Discuss how you can bring a whole child approach into your schools. Twenty sessions will be broadcast live over five days, May 6–10, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, with additional sessions on May 2 and 3 for Australasian and European audiences. No matter where your school falls on the whole child continuum, be it the early implementation stage or well beyond, the Whole Child Virtual Conference provides a forum and tools for school sites and districts that are working toward sustainability and changing school cultures to serve the whole child. Register Now! Go to www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference   Throughout March at wholechildeducation.org: Reducing Barriers and Expanding Opportunities Addressing students' needs levels the playing field. Or rather, addressing students' needs is only leveling the playing field. If a child is hungry, then schools can address the need by providing breakfast, lunch, and assistance as needed. The same applies if the child is unwell. Many schools have made great strides in addressing students' needs, but some schools have gone further. They have taken an issue that was initially a need and used it to enhance and improve what the school offers. Join us throughout March as we look at schools that have taken a deficit and turned it into an asset. Some schools have used connections formed into and across the community to enhance and build on what they first envisaged. Other schools are forming alliances to improve a specific situation and have then used those same alliances to improve the entire school. How has your school or community taken a challenge and turned it into a win? Check out the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples. We are taping this month’s Whole Child Podcast in front of a live audience at ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, on Saturday, March 16, in Chicago, Ill. Joining hosts Sean Slade and Donna Snyder of ASCD’s Whole Child Programs team will be representatives from the winning school of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award as they discuss this month's topic and what works in today's schools. The podcast will be available for download on Monday, March 18.   ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   New Jersey ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.  In the fifth post of the series, New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Marie Adair writes about the challenges and successes that New Jersey has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation The ASCD Forum has begun, and you’re invited to be a part of it! Check out these ASCD EDge posts on teacher and principal effectiveness: Be Prepared: The ASCD Forum Discusses Educator Preparation Programs Use Emotional Intelligence as an Effectiveness Tool and Both Sides of the Scale by Professional Interest Community Facilitator Mamzelle Adolphine The Road to Principalship and Beyond by 2012 Emerging Leader Dawn Imada Chan Making Teacher Observation Matter by Virginia ASCD Executive Director Laurie McCullough Conversation is also taking place in the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge, and the #ASCDForum hashtag on Twitter. You are also invited to join us for a live face-to-face session at Annual Conference that will also stream live via Virtual Conference. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   ASCD Leaders to Ignite ASCD Annual Conference With the tagline “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presentations are a fast-paced, breathtaking, and inspiring way to share stories. Each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide automatically advances every 15 seconds; this format keeps the presentations moving quickly. The following ASCD leaders will present their Whole Child stories in Ignite session format at ASCD Conference on Saturday, March 16: 2011 Emerging Leader Kimberly White Glenn 2010 Emerging Leader and Maryland ASCD President-Elect David Stovenour Western Kentucky University Student Chapter Leaders Rachel Glass and Kateiri Kintz with Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Rebecca Stobaugh 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community Facilitator Michael Rulon ASCD Board of Directors Member Gabriel Rshaid OYEA Honoree and 2010 Emerging Leader Dallas Dance 2012 Emerging Leader Ember Conley 2010 Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Jason Flom Please join us for an exciting Saturday afternoon session from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.!   Welcome to the new Common Core Professional Interest Community We are pleased to announce the newest ASCD Professional Interest Community: Common Core in the Classroom facilitated by Suzy Brooks of Massachusetts ASCD! The group will share ideas and resources for implementing the Common Core State Standards in instruction. Please join the group on ASCD EDge. Congratulations to Matthew Cotton 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Matthew Cotton has been selected to serve as a reviewer for the music standards by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Matthew was identified from among hundreds of applicants and nominees nationwide as an expert in an area of music education who can contribute to this process. Congratulations to Matthew on this exciting achievement!   Check Out These Great Pieces by ASCD Leaders ASCD Express: Three Strategies for Encouraging and Developing Student Voice by ASCD Leader Dawn Imada Chan, and cross-posted to the Whole Child Blog.  Whole Child Blog: Our Children Are Counting On Us by ASCD Board of Directors Member and former OYEA Winner Marc Cohen  ASCD Inservice: Eight Questions for Emerging Leader Kim Glenn  Get to the Core Webinar Series:Implementing the Common Core: Transform Principals into Instructional Leaders with 2012 Emerging Leader Michael DeCaprio(this webinar was recorded March 6, and will be archived soon)  Whole Child Blog: Safer, Not Safe by 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson  Lab Out Loud: STEM in Primary Classrooms by 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson  Washington ASCD’s Spring issue of Curriculum in Context: A Systematic Approach to Implementing Innovation (p. 25) by 2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro   Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Continues Expansion of Award-Winning Professional Development Offering with New PD In Focus Videos and PD Online Courses—ASCD announces the release of two new PD In Focus® videos and three new PD Online® courses. These new resources address a variety of topics important to educators today, including instructional leadership, formative assessment, and Common Core State Standards implementation. Read the full press release. ASCD Makes Professional Development E-books Available Through International Retailer Kobo—ASCD is pleased to announce that its e-books are now available through Kobo, a global leader in e-reading. More than 80 of ASCD’s professional development e-books are now available at www.kobo.com to educators in 200 countries, and counting. Read the full press release. ASCD Introduces New Conference App, Offers Support for First-Time Attendees—Attendees at ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, held March 16–18, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., will be able to improve their conference and professional development experience by downloading a new ASCD app that puts important conference information at their fingertips. Read the full press release.   Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:29:19 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-March-2013/blog/6516002/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-03-12T20:29:19Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders We are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org.  Submit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15.  Nominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. ASCD is accepting nominations and applications for the Emerging Leaders program until April 1. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/emergingleaders  Attending ASCD Annual Conference? We hope to see you in Chicago this weekend at ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference: Our Story, Our Time, Our Future. Here are a few tips as you head out for St. Patrick’s Day weekend: Download the ASCD Conference app. Search “ASCD” in your mobile app store or go to www.ascd.org/ascd13app. Plan your sessions, access social media activity, get up-to-the-minute news on ASCD Annual Conference, and more.  If applicable, read the First Timer’s Guide on ASCD Inservice.  Read Getting Your Game Plan Together for #ASCD13 on ASCD Inservice.  Follow the #ASCD13 hashtag on Twitter to connect with other attendees. Consider attending the Tweetup on March 16 as well.   Can’t make it to Chicago? Attend the ASCD Virtual Conference instead!   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” The current discussion theme (March 3-16) is: Educator Evaluation Systems: What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Upcoming themes include: Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6) Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum concludes April 12. We invite educators to join the conversation by blogging on the ASCD EDge®social network, commenting on other blog posts, taking a survey, and attending a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversations will inform the ASCD Board of Directors’ position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.   Newest Policy Points Highlights Teacher Evaluation ASCD’s newest issue of Policy Points (PDF) spotlights the association’s original 50-state analysis of educator evaluation systems as outlined in states’ NCLB waiver applications and other resources; it features a series of maps for easy comparison of key evaluation system components across the states. The resource provides graphic depictions of the frequency of state teacher evaluations, the rating levels used by states to rate teacher performance, and the extent to which states use student learning data in teacher evaluations.     Save the Date! ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference: Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture May 2–10, 2013 How can schools implement and sustain a whole child approach to education? ASCD invites you to participate in the free, online Whole Child Virtual Conference from May 2–10, 2013. You will ·         Hear from renowned speakers, including Pasi Sahlberg, Michael Fullan, and Andy Hargreaves. ·         Learn from educators, authors, and experts who have successfully implemented a whole child approach in schools around the world. ·         Discover the steps taken by ASCD’s Vision in Action award-winning schools and Whole Child Network schools to implement comprehensive, sustainable school improvement and provide for long-term student success. ·         Discuss how you can bring a whole child approach into your schools. Twenty sessions will be broadcast live over five days, May 6–10, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, with additional sessions on May 2 and 3 for Australasian and European audiences. No matter where your school falls on the whole child continuum, be it the early implementation stage or well beyond, the Whole Child Virtual Conference provides a forum and tools for school sites and districts that are working toward sustainability and changing school cultures to serve the whole child. Register Now! Go to www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference   Throughout March at wholechildeducation.org: Reducing Barriers and Expanding Opportunities Addressing students' needs levels the playing field. Or rather, addressing students' needs is only leveling the playing field. If a child is hungry, then schools can address the need by providing breakfast, lunch, and assistance as needed. The same applies if the child is unwell. Many schools have made great strides in addressing students' needs, but some schools have gone further. They have taken an issue that was initially a need and used it to enhance and improve what the school offers. Join us throughout March as we look at schools that have taken a deficit and turned it into an asset. Some schools have used connections formed into and across the community to enhance and build on what they first envisaged. Other schools are forming alliances to improve a specific situation and have then used those same alliances to improve the entire school. How has your school or community taken a challenge and turned it into a win? Check out the Whole Child Blog and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us and share resources, research, and examples. We are taping this month’s Whole Child Podcast in front of a live audience at ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, on Saturday, March 16, in Chicago, Ill. Joining hosts Sean Slade and Donna Snyder of ASCD’s Whole Child Programs team will be representatives from the winning school of the 2013 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award as they discuss this month's topic and what works in today's schools. The podcast will be available for download on Monday, March 18.   ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   New Jersey ASCD Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.  In the fifth post of the series, New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Marie Adair writes about the challenges and successes that New Jersey has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts:Alabama ASCD, Arkansas ASCD, New Hampshire ASCD, and Florida ASCD   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation The ASCD Forum has begun, and you’re invited to be a part of it! Check out these ASCD EDge posts on teacher and principal effectiveness: Be Prepared: The ASCD Forum Discusses Educator Preparation Programs Use Emotional Intelligence as an Effectiveness Tool and Both Sides of the Scale by Professional Interest Community Facilitator Mamzelle Adolphine The Road to Principalship and Beyond by 2012 Emerging Leader Dawn Imada Chan Making Teacher Observation Matter by Virginia ASCD Executive Director Laurie McCullough Conversation is also taking place in the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge, and the #ASCDForum hashtag on Twitter. You are also invited to join us for a live face-to-face session at Annual Conference that will also stream live via Virtual Conference. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   ASCD Leaders to Ignite ASCD Annual Conference With the tagline “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presentations are a fast-paced, breathtaking, and inspiring way to share stories. Each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide automatically advances every 15 seconds; this format keeps the presentations moving quickly. The following ASCD leaders will present their Whole Child stories in Ignite session format at ASCD Conference on Saturday, March 16: 2011 Emerging Leader Kimberly White Glenn 2010 Emerging Leader and Maryland ASCD President-Elect David Stovenour Western Kentucky University Student Chapter Leaders Rachel Glass and Kateiri Kintz with Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Rebecca Stobaugh 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community Facilitator Michael Rulon ASCD Board of Directors Member Gabriel Rshaid OYEA Honoree and 2010 Emerging Leader Dallas Dance 2012 Emerging Leader Ember Conley 2010 Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Jason Flom Please join us for an exciting Saturday afternoon session from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.!   Welcome to the new Common Core Professional Interest Community We are pleased to announce the newest ASCD Professional Interest Community: Common Core in the Classroom facilitated by Suzy Brooks of Massachusetts ASCD! The group will share ideas and resources for implementing the Common Core State Standards in instruction. Please join the group on ASCD EDge. Congratulations to Matthew Cotton 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Matthew Cotton has been selected to serve as a reviewer for the music standards by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Matthew was identified from among hundreds of applicants and nominees nationwide as an expert in an area of music education who can contribute to this process. Congratulations to Matthew on this exciting achievement!   Check Out These Great Pieces by ASCD Leaders ASCD Express: Three Strategies for Encouraging and Developing Student Voice by ASCD Leader Dawn Imada Chan, and cross-posted to the Whole Child Blog.  Whole Child Blog: Our Children Are Counting On Us by ASCD Board of Directors Member and former OYEA Winner Marc Cohen  ASCD Inservice: Eight Questions for Emerging Leader Kim Glenn  Get to the Core Webinar Series:Implementing the Common Core: Transform Principals into Instructional Leaders with 2012 Emerging Leader Michael DeCaprio(this webinar was recorded March 6, and will be archived soon)  Whole Child Blog: Safer, Not Safe by 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson  Lab Out Loud: STEM in Primary Classrooms by 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson  Washington ASCD’s Spring issue of Curriculum in Context: A Systematic Approach to Implementing Innovation (p. 25) by 2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro   Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Continues Expansion of Award-Winning Professional Development Offering with New PD In Focus Videos and PD Online Courses—ASCD announces the release of two new PD In Focus® videos and three new PD Online® courses. These new resources address a variety of topics important to educators today, including instructional leadership, formative assessment, and Common Core State Standards implementation. Read the full press release. ASCD Makes Professional Development E-books Available Through International Retailer Kobo—ASCD is pleased to announce that its e-books are now available through Kobo, a global leader in e-reading. More than 80 of ASCD’s professional development e-books are now available at www.kobo.com to educators in 200 countries, and counting. Read the full press release. ASCD Introduces New Conference App, Offers Support for First-Time Attendees—Attendees at ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, held March 16–18, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., will be able to improve their conference and professional development experience by downloading a new ASCD app that puts important conference information at their fingertips. Read the full press release.   nonadult false L2L News: March 2013 text blog 486 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6516002 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-February-2013/blog/6511717/127586.html  ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üWe are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18. üSubmit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is now accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15. üNominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. ASCD is accepting nominations and applications for the Emerging Leaders program until April 1. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/emergingleaders.   The ASCD Forum Has Begun For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” The current discussion theme is:         Educator Preparation (February 3–16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? Upcoming themes include:  Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17 – March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3 – 16):  What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6) Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum concludes April 12. To join the conversation, educators are invited to blog on ASCD EDge®social network, comment on other blog posts, take a survey, and attend a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversations will inform the ASCD Board of Directors’ position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.   ASCD Releases 2013 Legislative Agenda ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda (PDF) urges Congress to immediately reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replace it with a comprehensive rewrite that fixes the current law’s flaws; aligns with and supports current state and local initiatives; and guides revisions to other federal programs, such as special education and career and technical education. The legislative agenda, developed by ASCD members and recently released at ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) in Washington, D.C., offers three key policy recommendations to Congress as part of any ESEA reauthorization. Together, the recommendations advance the goal of educating students who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, and who graduate ready for the demands of college, careers, and citizenship. Support meaningful accountability systems that determine student proficiency, school quality, and educator effectiveness by tracking student growth, differentiating among performance levels, and using multiple evaluation measures beyond standardized test scores.  Promote comprehensive improvement strategies that engage all stakeholders and are grounded in a whole child approach to education. Interventions for those who do not meet expectations need to be commensurate with their level of performance. Meanwhile, districts and schools that consistently perform well or demonstrate growth should receive rewards and incentives, including the flexible use of federal funds. Help educators support students through adequate and effective preparation and ongoing professional development. In addition, teacher and administrator evaluations must drive high-quality professional development opportunities that build district and school capacity; enhance classroom management, planning, and preparation; and address effective instructional practices and subject-area content consistent with standards that prepare students for college and careers. As part of LILA, ASCD educator advocates from across the country discussed these recommendations with their federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. We ask you to build on their work by sharing the 2013 Legislative Agenda (PDF) with your colleagues and elected officials.   Alabama Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.  In the fourth post of the series, Alabama ASCD Executive Director Jane Cobia writes about the challenges and successes that Alabama has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts: Arkansas ASCD New Hampshire ASCD Florida ASCD    ASCD Leaders to Ignite ASCD Annual Conference With the tagline “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presentations are a fast-paced, breathtaking, and inspiring way to share stories. Each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide automatically advances every 15 seconds; this format keeps the presentations moving quickly. The following ASCD leaders will present their Whole Child stories in Ignite session format at ASCD Conference on Saturday, March 16: 2011 Emerging Leader Kimberly White Glenn 2010 Emerging Leader and Maryland ASCD President-Elect David Stovenour Western Kentucky University Student Chapter Leaders Rachel Glass and Kateiri Kintz with Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Rebecca Stobaugh 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community Facilitator Michael Rulon ASCD Board of Directors Member Gabriel Rshaid OYEA Honoree and 2010 Emerging Leader Dallas Dance 2012 Emerging Leader Ember Conley 2010 Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Jason Flom       Please join us for an exciting Saturday afternoon session from 1:00–2:30 p.m.!   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation The ASCD Forum has begun, and you’re invited to be a part of it! Check out these ASCD EDge posts on teacher and principal effectiveness: Welcome to the ASCD Forum (Includes guidelines on how to participate) How Do We Give Students Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Principals? Mosaic of Effectiveness by Jason Flom, 2010 ASCD Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Access and Equity by Michael DeCaprio, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Reflecting on the Value I Add  by Brooke Eisenbach Take the ASCD Forum Access and Equity Survey Resources for Access and Equity Keepin’ It Real: Preparation Pathways that Work, by Fred Ende, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? By Suzann Girtz, 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Reflecting on Teacher Preparation Programs by Dawn Imada Chan, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Conversation is also taking place in the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge, and the #ASCDForum hashtag on Twitter. Join us! For more information, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   Throughout February at wholechildeducation.org: Safe Schools Safety is and always will be a fundamental concern for schools. Students who aren’t or don’t feel safe at school cannot learn, and schools must ensure that their environments are both secure and supportive. The current debate on school safety brings with it a renewed interest in addressing safety, school climate, and mental health concerns at schools and promises to improve school policy and practice. Yet while the current debate has engaged the nation in community-wide discussions, it also has the potential to overlook the voice of educators. Join us throughout February as we look at what educators (teachers, administrators, and counselors) believe is crucial to making our schools safe—not just physically safe, but safe places to teach and learn. What can educators do to implement and reinforce the conditions for learning where students are physically and emotionally safe; learn to manage their emotions and relationships positively; and are connected to the school, community, and caring adults? Download the Whole Child Podcast, check out the Whole Child Blog, and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us to share resources, research, and examples.    Opportunity to Learn, Teach, and Lead What does it mean to be a teacher, a learner, and a leader in today’s schools and classrooms? What do we need to be effective? How will the current standards movement affect us, as professionals, and our students? How do we find the answers to these questions? Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In December and January, we looked at what we can do to implement the Common Core standards within a whole child approach. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Arnold Fege, president of Public Advocacy for Kids; Craig Mertler, professor and dean of the Ross College of Education at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.; and David Griffith, director of public policy at ASCD, who leads the development and implementation of ASCD’s legislative agenda (PDF) as well as ASCD’s efforts to influence education decision making at the local, state, and federal levels. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read January’s newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.   The Time Is Now: Make the Case for Educating the Whole Child Whether you are a parent, educator, or community member, you can help turn political rhetoric about “investing in the future of our children” into reality. Updated with crucial research and real-world examples of education policies and practices that ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, Making the Case for Educating the Whole Child (PDF) is a free advocacy tool that you can use as you work with policymakers, the media, and other groups. You can also add your local statistics and success stories so that decision makers in your community understand the difference a whole child education can make. Learn more.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ·         Results-Only Learning the Subject of Pioneering Educator Mark Barnes’s New ASCD Book—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom by Mark Barnes, 20-year classroom teacher and creator of the Results Only Learning Environment (ROLE). In this groundbreaking book, Barnes walks middle and high school teachers through the fundamentals of a ROLE. Results-only learning eliminates traditional practices—homework, worksheets, tests, and even grades—and replaces them with student-driven, yearlong projects that enable students to sharpen and expand their skills. Read the full press release. ·         Pinellas County Schools and ASCD Partner to Support Common Core Implementation—The award-winning Pinellas County Schools (PCS) has chosen ASCD as its newest professional development partner. The seventh largest school system in Florida, PCS serves 104,000 preK–12th grade students in more than 145 schools. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Releases 2013 Legislative Agenda—ASCD released its 2013 legislative agenda (PDF). Developed by the association’s Legislative Committee, which is a diverse cross-section of ASCD members representing the entire spectrum of K–12 education, the 2013 ASCD Legislative Agenda outlines the association’s federal public policy priorities for the year. The key priority for ASCD and its members in 2013 is the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Introduces the New PD QuickKit—ASCD introduces the new PD QuickKit® digital packs. PD QuickKits are a cost-effective, powerful new professional development option that combines engaging multimedia resources focused on the most important issues in education today. Read the full press release.    ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üWe are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18. üSubmit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is now accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15. üNominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. ASCD is accepting nominations and applications for the Emerging Leaders program until April 1. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/emergingleaders.   The ASCD Forum Has Begun For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” The current discussion theme is:         Educator Preparation (February 3–16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? Upcoming themes include:  Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17 – March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3 – 16):  What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6) Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum concludes April 12. To join the conversation, educators are invited to blog on ASCD EDge®social network, comment on other blog posts, take a survey, and attend a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversations will inform the ASCD Board of Directors’ position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.   ASCD Releases 2013 Legislative Agenda ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda (PDF) urges Congress to immediately reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replace it with a comprehensive rewrite that fixes the current law’s flaws; aligns with and supports current state and local initiatives; and guides revisions to other federal programs, such as special education and career and technical education. The legislative agenda, developed by ASCD members and recently released at ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) in Washington, D.C., offers three key policy recommendations to Congress as part of any ESEA reauthorization. Together, the recommendations advance the goal of educating students who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, and who graduate ready for the demands of college, careers, and citizenship. Support meaningful accountability systems that determine student proficiency, school quality, and educator effectiveness by tracking student growth, differentiating among performance levels, and using multiple evaluation measures beyond standardized test scores.  Promote comprehensive improvement strategies that engage all stakeholders and are grounded in a whole child approach to education. Interventions for those who do not meet expectations need to be commensurate with their level of performance. Meanwhile, districts and schools that consistently perform well or demonstrate growth should receive rewards and incentives, including the flexible use of federal funds. Help educators support students through adequate and effective preparation and ongoing professional development. In addition, teacher and administrator evaluations must drive high-quality professional development opportunities that build district and school capacity; enhance classroom management, planning, and preparation; and address effective instructional practices and subject-area content consistent with standards that prepare students for college and careers. As part of LILA, ASCD educator advocates from across the country discussed these recommendations with their federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. We ask you to build on their work by sharing the 2013 Legislative Agenda (PDF) with your colleagues and elected officials.   Alabama Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.  In the fourth post of the series, Alabama ASCD Executive Director Jane Cobia writes about the challenges and successes that Alabama has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts: Arkansas ASCD New Hampshire ASCD Florida ASCD    ASCD Leaders to Ignite ASCD Annual Conference With the tagline “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presentations are a fast-paced, breathtaking, and inspiring way to share stories. Each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide automatically advances every 15 seconds; this format keeps the presentations moving quickly. The following ASCD leaders will present their Whole Child stories in Ignite session format at ASCD Conference on Saturday, March 16: 2011 Emerging Leader Kimberly White Glenn 2010 Emerging Leader and Maryland ASCD President-Elect David Stovenour Western Kentucky University Student Chapter Leaders Rachel Glass and Kateiri Kintz with Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Rebecca Stobaugh 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community Facilitator Michael Rulon ASCD Board of Directors Member Gabriel Rshaid OYEA Honoree and 2010 Emerging Leader Dallas Dance 2012 Emerging Leader Ember Conley 2010 Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Jason Flom       Please join us for an exciting Saturday afternoon session from 1:00–2:30 p.m.!   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation The ASCD Forum has begun, and you’re invited to be a part of it! Check out these ASCD EDge posts on teacher and principal effectiveness: Welcome to the ASCD Forum (Includes guidelines on how to participate) How Do We Give Students Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Principals? Mosaic of Effectiveness by Jason Flom, 2010 ASCD Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Access and Equity by Michael DeCaprio, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Reflecting on the Value I Add  by Brooke Eisenbach Take the ASCD Forum Access and Equity Survey Resources for Access and Equity Keepin’ It Real: Preparation Pathways that Work, by Fred Ende, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? By Suzann Girtz, 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Reflecting on Teacher Preparation Programs by Dawn Imada Chan, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Conversation is also taking place in the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge, and the #ASCDForum hashtag on Twitter. Join us! For more information, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   Throughout February at wholechildeducation.org: Safe Schools Safety is and always will be a fundamental concern for schools. Students who aren’t or don’t feel safe at school cannot learn, and schools must ensure that their environments are both secure and supportive. The current debate on school safety brings with it a renewed interest in addressing safety, school climate, and mental health concerns at schools and promises to improve school policy and practice. Yet while the current debate has engaged the nation in community-wide discussions, it also has the potential to overlook the voice of educators. Join us throughout February as we look at what educators (teachers, administrators, and counselors) believe is crucial to making our schools safe—not just physically safe, but safe places to teach and learn. What can educators do to implement and reinforce the conditions for learning where students are physically and emotionally safe; learn to manage their emotions and relationships positively; and are connected to the school, community, and caring adults? Download the Whole Child Podcast, check out the Whole Child Blog, and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us to share resources, research, and examples.    Opportunity to Learn, Teach, and Lead What does it mean to be a teacher, a learner, and a leader in today’s schools and classrooms? What do we need to be effective? How will the current standards movement affect us, as professionals, and our students? How do we find the answers to these questions? Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In December and January, we looked at what we can do to implement the Common Core standards within a whole child approach. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Arnold Fege, president of Public Advocacy for Kids; Craig Mertler, professor and dean of the Ross College of Education at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.; and David Griffith, director of public policy at ASCD, who leads the development and implementation of ASCD’s legislative agenda (PDF) as well as ASCD’s efforts to influence education decision making at the local, state, and federal levels. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read January’s newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.   The Time Is Now: Make the Case for Educating the Whole Child Whether you are a parent, educator, or community member, you can help turn political rhetoric about “investing in the future of our children” into reality. Updated with crucial research and real-world examples of education policies and practices that ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, Making the Case for Educating the Whole Child (PDF) is a free advocacy tool that you can use as you work with policymakers, the media, and other groups. You can also add your local statistics and success stories so that decision makers in your community understand the difference a whole child education can make. Learn more.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ·         Results-Only Learning the Subject of Pioneering Educator Mark Barnes’s New ASCD Book—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom by Mark Barnes, 20-year classroom teacher and creator of the Results Only Learning Environment (ROLE). In this groundbreaking book, Barnes walks middle and high school teachers through the fundamentals of a ROLE. Results-only learning eliminates traditional practices—homework, worksheets, tests, and even grades—and replaces them with student-driven, yearlong projects that enable students to sharpen and expand their skills. Read the full press release. ·         Pinellas County Schools and ASCD Partner to Support Common Core Implementation—The award-winning Pinellas County Schools (PCS) has chosen ASCD as its newest professional development partner. The seventh largest school system in Florida, PCS serves 104,000 preK–12th grade students in more than 145 schools. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Releases 2013 Legislative Agenda—ASCD released its 2013 legislative agenda (PDF). Developed by the association’s Legislative Committee, which is a diverse cross-section of ASCD members representing the entire spectrum of K–12 education, the 2013 ASCD Legislative Agenda outlines the association’s federal public policy priorities for the year. The key priority for ASCD and its members in 2013 is the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Introduces the New PD QuickKit—ASCD introduces the new PD QuickKit® digital packs. PD QuickKits are a cost-effective, powerful new professional development option that combines engaging multimedia resources focused on the most important issues in education today. Read the full press release.   Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:44:04 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-February-2013/blog/6511717/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-02-15T02:44:04Z ASCD EDge  ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üWe are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18. üSubmit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is now accepting proposals for 2014 Annual Conference presentations until May 15. üNominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. ASCD is accepting nominations and applications for the Emerging Leaders program until April 1. For more information, go to www.ascd.org/emergingleaders.   The ASCD Forum Has Begun For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” The current discussion theme is:         Educator Preparation (February 3–16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? Upcoming themes include:  Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17 – March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3 – 16):  What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6) Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum concludes April 12. To join the conversation, educators are invited to blog on ASCD EDge®social network, comment on other blog posts, take a survey, and attend a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversations will inform the ASCD Board of Directors’ position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.   ASCD Releases 2013 Legislative Agenda ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda (PDF) urges Congress to immediately reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replace it with a comprehensive rewrite that fixes the current law’s flaws; aligns with and supports current state and local initiatives; and guides revisions to other federal programs, such as special education and career and technical education. The legislative agenda, developed by ASCD members and recently released at ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) in Washington, D.C., offers three key policy recommendations to Congress as part of any ESEA reauthorization. Together, the recommendations advance the goal of educating students who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, and who graduate ready for the demands of college, careers, and citizenship. Support meaningful accountability systems that determine student proficiency, school quality, and educator effectiveness by tracking student growth, differentiating among performance levels, and using multiple evaluation measures beyond standardized test scores.  Promote comprehensive improvement strategies that engage all stakeholders and are grounded in a whole child approach to education. Interventions for those who do not meet expectations need to be commensurate with their level of performance. Meanwhile, districts and schools that consistently perform well or demonstrate growth should receive rewards and incentives, including the flexible use of federal funds. Help educators support students through adequate and effective preparation and ongoing professional development. In addition, teacher and administrator evaluations must drive high-quality professional development opportunities that build district and school capacity; enhance classroom management, planning, and preparation; and address effective instructional practices and subject-area content consistent with standards that prepare students for college and careers. As part of LILA, ASCD educator advocates from across the country discussed these recommendations with their federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. We ask you to build on their work by sharing the 2013 Legislative Agenda (PDF) with your colleagues and elected officials.   Alabama Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states.  In the fourth post of the series, Alabama ASCD Executive Director Jane Cobia writes about the challenges and successes that Alabama has had with CCSS implementation. Previous Posts: Arkansas ASCD New Hampshire ASCD Florida ASCD    ASCD Leaders to Ignite ASCD Annual Conference With the tagline “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presentations are a fast-paced, breathtaking, and inspiring way to share stories. Each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide automatically advances every 15 seconds; this format keeps the presentations moving quickly. The following ASCD leaders will present their Whole Child stories in Ignite session format at ASCD Conference on Saturday, March 16: 2011 Emerging Leader Kimberly White Glenn 2010 Emerging Leader and Maryland ASCD President-Elect David Stovenour Western Kentucky University Student Chapter Leaders Rachel Glass and Kateiri Kintz with Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Rebecca Stobaugh 2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community Facilitator Michael Rulon ASCD Board of Directors Member Gabriel Rshaid OYEA Honoree and 2010 Emerging Leader Dallas Dance 2012 Emerging Leader Ember Conley 2010 Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Jason Flom       Please join us for an exciting Saturday afternoon session from 1:00–2:30 p.m.!   Join the ASCD Forum Conversation The ASCD Forum has begun, and you’re invited to be a part of it! Check out these ASCD EDge posts on teacher and principal effectiveness: Welcome to the ASCD Forum (Includes guidelines on how to participate) How Do We Give Students Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Principals? Mosaic of Effectiveness by Jason Flom, 2010 ASCD Emerging Leader and Florida ASCD Board Member Access and Equity by Michael DeCaprio, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Reflecting on the Value I Add  by Brooke Eisenbach Take the ASCD Forum Access and Equity Survey Resources for Access and Equity Keepin’ It Real: Preparation Pathways that Work, by Fred Ende, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? By Suzann Girtz, 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Reflecting on Teacher Preparation Programs by Dawn Imada Chan, 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Conversation is also taking place in the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge, and the #ASCDForum hashtag on Twitter. Join us! For more information, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   Throughout February at wholechildeducation.org: Safe Schools Safety is and always will be a fundamental concern for schools. Students who aren’t or don’t feel safe at school cannot learn, and schools must ensure that their environments are both secure and supportive. The current debate on school safety brings with it a renewed interest in addressing safety, school climate, and mental health concerns at schools and promises to improve school policy and practice. Yet while the current debate has engaged the nation in community-wide discussions, it also has the potential to overlook the voice of educators. Join us throughout February as we look at what educators (teachers, administrators, and counselors) believe is crucial to making our schools safe—not just physically safe, but safe places to teach and learn. What can educators do to implement and reinforce the conditions for learning where students are physically and emotionally safe; learn to manage their emotions and relationships positively; and are connected to the school, community, and caring adults? Download the Whole Child Podcast, check out the Whole Child Blog, and tell us what has worked in your school and with your students. E-mail us to share resources, research, and examples.    Opportunity to Learn, Teach, and Lead What does it mean to be a teacher, a learner, and a leader in today’s schools and classrooms? What do we need to be effective? How will the current standards movement affect us, as professionals, and our students? How do we find the answers to these questions? Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In December and January, we looked at what we can do to implement the Common Core standards within a whole child approach. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Arnold Fege, president of Public Advocacy for Kids; Craig Mertler, professor and dean of the Ross College of Education at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.; and David Griffith, director of public policy at ASCD, who leads the development and implementation of ASCD’s legislative agenda (PDF) as well as ASCD’s efforts to influence education decision making at the local, state, and federal levels. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read January’s newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.   The Time Is Now: Make the Case for Educating the Whole Child Whether you are a parent, educator, or community member, you can help turn political rhetoric about “investing in the future of our children” into reality. Updated with crucial research and real-world examples of education policies and practices that ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, Making the Case for Educating the Whole Child (PDF) is a free advocacy tool that you can use as you work with policymakers, the media, and other groups. You can also add your local statistics and success stories so that decision makers in your community understand the difference a whole child education can make. Learn more.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ·         Results-Only Learning the Subject of Pioneering Educator Mark Barnes’s New ASCD Book—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom by Mark Barnes, 20-year classroom teacher and creator of the Results Only Learning Environment (ROLE). In this groundbreaking book, Barnes walks middle and high school teachers through the fundamentals of a ROLE. Results-only learning eliminates traditional practices—homework, worksheets, tests, and even grades—and replaces them with student-driven, yearlong projects that enable students to sharpen and expand their skills. Read the full press release. ·         Pinellas County Schools and ASCD Partner to Support Common Core Implementation—The award-winning Pinellas County Schools (PCS) has chosen ASCD as its newest professional development partner. The seventh largest school system in Florida, PCS serves 104,000 preK–12th grade students in more than 145 schools. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Releases 2013 Legislative Agenda—ASCD released its 2013 legislative agenda (PDF). Developed by the association’s Legislative Committee, which is a diverse cross-section of ASCD members representing the entire spectrum of K–12 education, the 2013 ASCD Legislative Agenda outlines the association’s federal public policy priorities for the year. The key priority for ASCD and its members in 2013 is the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Introduces the New PD QuickKit—ASCD introduces the new PD QuickKit® digital packs. PD QuickKits are a cost-effective, powerful new professional development option that combines engaging multimedia resources focused on the most important issues in education today. Read the full press release.   nonadult false L2L News: February 2013 text blog 335 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6511717 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_Resources-for-Access-and-Equity/blog/6508405/127586.html This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum, or join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge.   ASCD Resources for Access and Equity: ·         Teach Up for Excellence: Seven principles for creating classrooms that give students equal access to excellence, Educational Leadership, February 2012 (please note, this article is only available to ASCD members)   ·         Four Takes on Tough Times (see Efficiency and Equity section), Educational Leadership, December 2011   ·         Creating Excellent and Equitable Schools: Five schools show how to beat the odds for low-income students, Educational Leadership, May 2008.   Other Resources Regarding Access and Equity:   ·         Education and Urban Society, 2012: Varying Teacher Expectations and Standards: Curriculum Differentiation in the Age of Standards-Based Reform (abstract/summary)  “The development of academic standards in each state creates the context where common educational experiences and academic outcomes exist for all students regardless of the school they attend, the teacher they have, or the learning group placed. However, while the standards-based reform has the potential to ensure more equitable educational experiences for students, its impact can be compromised by the deficit beliefs that exist about low-income students and students of color and their families.”   ·         Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2012: “Everything that's Challenging in My School Makes Me a Better Teacher”: Negotiating Tensions in Learning to Teach for Equity (PDF) “This paper responds to the call for further inquiry into the experiences of graduates of urban focused teacher education programs. I present and analyze the experience of Mia, a White, monolingual English female who earned licensure in secondary social studies through a graduate-level, equity-focused teacher preparation program before accepting a position at a large, traditional diverse, underperforming, urban middle school. The paper explores how negotiating tensions in curriculum and intersections with colleagues in her school context contributes to her identity development with respect to culturally responsive, equity-oriented pedagogy.”   ·         Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011: Teacher and School Leader Effectiveness: Lessons Learned from High-Performing Systems. (PDF) “For its examination of teacher effectiveness policies, the Alliance and SCOPE looked to Finland, Ontario, and Singapore. These jurisdictions have attracted a great deal of attention in United States education policy circles recently, and with good reason. Most significantly, they get good results: they are among the highest-performing jurisdictions in international tests of student achievement, and their results are among the most equitable in the world. The gaps between the lowest-performing and the highest-performing students in Finland, Ontario, and Singapore are much smaller than in the United States, and the average performance is quite high.”   ·         National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011: Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to the Highest-Performing Teachers? NCEE Evaluation Brief. NCEE 2011-4016 (PDF) “This brief describes the prevalence of highest-performing teachers in ten purposely selected districts across seven states. The overall patterns indicate that low-income students have unequal access, on average, to the district's highest-performing teachers at the middle school level but not at the elementary level. However, there is evidence of variation in the distribution of highest-performing teachers within and among the ten districts studied. Some have an under-representation of the highest-performing teachers in high-poverty elementary and middle schools. Others have such under-representation only at the middle school level, and one district has a disproportionate share of the district's highest-performing teachers in its high-poverty elementary schools.”   ·         Pursuing Equity in and through Teacher Education Program Admissions, Education Policy Analysis Archives, v19 n24 Aug 2011 “This case study investigated equity in teacher education admissions. Through document analysis and structured interviews with ten past or current members of the admissions committee in a large initial teacher education program in Ontario, we developed an understanding of equity in teacher education admissions as encompassing two foci: equity in admissions--that is, equity of access for applicants to the program--and equity through admissions--that is, equity of educational opportunity and outcomes for the children in the schools where the teachers trained by the programs will eventually teach. Our analysis illustrates the importance of recognizing both foci and the tensions between them.”   ·         National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2010: Ensuring the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Strategies for School, District, and State Leaders. (PDF) “The brief contains the following information: (1) An explanation of the problem of inequitable teacher distribution; (2) An overview of school policies and practices that appear to contribute to equitable teacher distribution; (3) Strategies for school leaders to enhance teacher recruitment, hiring, and placement practices as well as improve working conditions; (4) Strategies for district leaders to enhance teacher recruitment, hiring, and placement practices as well as improve teacher compensation policies; (5) Strategies for state and federal leaders to facilitate district policymaking and build district capacity to support the equitable distribution of teachers; and (6) Resources to support leaders in promoting the equitable distribution of teachers.” This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum, or join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge.   ASCD Resources for Access and Equity: ·         Teach Up for Excellence: Seven principles for creating classrooms that give students equal access to excellence, Educational Leadership, February 2012 (please note, this article is only available to ASCD members)   ·         Four Takes on Tough Times (see Efficiency and Equity section), Educational Leadership, December 2011   ·         Creating Excellent and Equitable Schools: Five schools show how to beat the odds for low-income students, Educational Leadership, May 2008.   Other Resources Regarding Access and Equity:   ·         Education and Urban Society, 2012: Varying Teacher Expectations and Standards: Curriculum Differentiation in the Age of Standards-Based Reform (abstract/summary)  “The development of academic standards in each state creates the context where common educational experiences and academic outcomes exist for all students regardless of the school they attend, the teacher they have, or the learning group placed. However, while the standards-based reform has the potential to ensure more equitable educational experiences for students, its impact can be compromised by the deficit beliefs that exist about low-income students and students of color and their families.”   ·         Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2012: “Everything that's Challenging in My School Makes Me a Better Teacher”: Negotiating Tensions in Learning to Teach for Equity (PDF) “This paper responds to the call for further inquiry into the experiences of graduates of urban focused teacher education programs. I present and analyze the experience of Mia, a White, monolingual English female who earned licensure in secondary social studies through a graduate-level, equity-focused teacher preparation program before accepting a position at a large, traditional diverse, underperforming, urban middle school. The paper explores how negotiating tensions in curriculum and intersections with colleagues in her school context contributes to her identity development with respect to culturally responsive, equity-oriented pedagogy.”   ·         Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011: Teacher and School Leader Effectiveness: Lessons Learned from High-Performing Systems. (PDF) “For its examination of teacher effectiveness policies, the Alliance and SCOPE looked to Finland, Ontario, and Singapore. These jurisdictions have attracted a great deal of attention in United States education policy circles recently, and with good reason. Most significantly, they get good results: they are among the highest-performing jurisdictions in international tests of student achievement, and their results are among the most equitable in the world. The gaps between the lowest-performing and the highest-performing students in Finland, Ontario, and Singapore are much smaller than in the United States, and the average performance is quite high.”   ·         National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011: Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to the Highest-Performing Teachers? NCEE Evaluation Brief. NCEE 2011-4016 (PDF) “This brief describes the prevalence of highest-performing teachers in ten purposely selected districts across seven states. The overall patterns indicate that low-income students have unequal access, on average, to the district's highest-performing teachers at the middle school level but not at the elementary level. However, there is evidence of variation in the distribution of highest-performing teachers within and among the ten districts studied. Some have an under-representation of the highest-performing teachers in high-poverty elementary and middle schools. Others have such under-representation only at the middle school level, and one district has a disproportionate share of the district's highest-performing teachers in its high-poverty elementary schools.”   ·         Pursuing Equity in and through Teacher Education Program Admissions, Education Policy Analysis Archives, v19 n24 Aug 2011 “This case study investigated equity in teacher education admissions. Through document analysis and structured interviews with ten past or current members of the admissions committee in a large initial teacher education program in Ontario, we developed an understanding of equity in teacher education admissions as encompassing two foci: equity in admissions--that is, equity of access for applicants to the program--and equity through admissions--that is, equity of educational opportunity and outcomes for the children in the schools where the teachers trained by the programs will eventually teach. Our analysis illustrates the importance of recognizing both foci and the tensions between them.”   ·         National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2010: Ensuring the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Strategies for School, District, and State Leaders. (PDF) “The brief contains the following information: (1) An explanation of the problem of inequitable teacher distribution; (2) An overview of school policies and practices that appear to contribute to equitable teacher distribution; (3) Strategies for school leaders to enhance teacher recruitment, hiring, and placement practices as well as improve working conditions; (4) Strategies for district leaders to enhance teacher recruitment, hiring, and placement practices as well as improve teacher compensation policies; (5) Strategies for state and federal leaders to facilitate district policymaking and build district capacity to support the equitable distribution of teachers; and (6) Resources to support leaders in promoting the equitable distribution of teachers.” Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:17:46 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_Resources-for-Access-and-Equity/blog/6508405/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-02-01T20:17:46Z ASCD EDge This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum, or join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge.   ASCD Resources for Access and Equity: ·         Teach Up for Excellence: Seven principles for creating classrooms that give students equal access to excellence, Educational Leadership, February 2012 (please note, this article is only available to ASCD members)   ·         Four Takes on Tough Times (see Efficiency and Equity section), Educational Leadership, December 2011   ·         Creating Excellent and Equitable Schools: Five schools show how to beat the odds for low-income students, Educational Leadership, May 2008.   Other Resources Regarding Access and Equity:   ·         Education and Urban Society, 2012: Varying Teacher Expectations and Standards: Curriculum Differentiation in the Age of Standards-Based Reform (abstract/summary)  “The development of academic standards in each state creates the context where common educational experiences and academic outcomes exist for all students regardless of the school they attend, the teacher they have, or the learning group placed. However, while the standards-based reform has the potential to ensure more equitable educational experiences for students, its impact can be compromised by the deficit beliefs that exist about low-income students and students of color and their families.”   ·         Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2012: “Everything that's Challenging in My School Makes Me a Better Teacher”: Negotiating Tensions in Learning to Teach for Equity (PDF) “This paper responds to the call for further inquiry into the experiences of graduates of urban focused teacher education programs. I present and analyze the experience of Mia, a White, monolingual English female who earned licensure in secondary social studies through a graduate-level, equity-focused teacher preparation program before accepting a position at a large, traditional diverse, underperforming, urban middle school. The paper explores how negotiating tensions in curriculum and intersections with colleagues in her school context contributes to her identity development with respect to culturally responsive, equity-oriented pedagogy.”   ·         Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011: Teacher and School Leader Effectiveness: Lessons Learned from High-Performing Systems. (PDF) “For its examination of teacher effectiveness policies, the Alliance and SCOPE looked to Finland, Ontario, and Singapore. These jurisdictions have attracted a great deal of attention in United States education policy circles recently, and with good reason. Most significantly, they get good results: they are among the highest-performing jurisdictions in international tests of student achievement, and their results are among the most equitable in the world. The gaps between the lowest-performing and the highest-performing students in Finland, Ontario, and Singapore are much smaller than in the United States, and the average performance is quite high.”   ·         National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011: Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to the Highest-Performing Teachers? NCEE Evaluation Brief. NCEE 2011-4016 (PDF) “This brief describes the prevalence of highest-performing teachers in ten purposely selected districts across seven states. The overall patterns indicate that low-income students have unequal access, on average, to the district's highest-performing teachers at the middle school level but not at the elementary level. However, there is evidence of variation in the distribution of highest-performing teachers within and among the ten districts studied. Some have an under-representation of the highest-performing teachers in high-poverty elementary and middle schools. Others have such under-representation only at the middle school level, and one district has a disproportionate share of the district's highest-performing teachers in its high-poverty elementary schools.”   ·         Pursuing Equity in and through Teacher Education Program Admissions, Education Policy Analysis Archives, v19 n24 Aug 2011 “This case study investigated equity in teacher education admissions. Through document analysis and structured interviews with ten past or current members of the admissions committee in a large initial teacher education program in Ontario, we developed an understanding of equity in teacher education admissions as encompassing two foci: equity in admissions--that is, equity of access for applicants to the program--and equity through admissions--that is, equity of educational opportunity and outcomes for the children in the schools where the teachers trained by the programs will eventually teach. Our analysis illustrates the importance of recognizing both foci and the tensions between them.”   ·         National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2010: Ensuring the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Strategies for School, District, and State Leaders. (PDF) “The brief contains the following information: (1) An explanation of the problem of inequitable teacher distribution; (2) An overview of school policies and practices that appear to contribute to equitable teacher distribution; (3) Strategies for school leaders to enhance teacher recruitment, hiring, and placement practices as well as improve working conditions; (4) Strategies for district leaders to enhance teacher recruitment, hiring, and placement practices as well as improve teacher compensation policies; (5) Strategies for state and federal leaders to facilitate district policymaking and build district capacity to support the equitable distribution of teachers; and (6) Resources to support leaders in promoting the equitable distribution of teachers.” nonadult false Resources for Access and Equity text blog 168 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6508405 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Forum-Take-the-Access-and-Equity-Survey/blog/6506581/127586.html In thinking about access and equity, teacher effectiveness is at the core. How do we know that students have equitable access if we are not sure what constitutes an effective educator? Many organizations strive to address this issue through the development of standards that define an effective teacher or principal:   Teacher Standards: Council of Chief School State Officers (CCSSO) – Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue (PDF)  National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) – The Five Core Propositions Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership – National Professional Standards for Teachers (PDF) Principal Standards: E-Lead – Standards for School Leadership Practice: What a Leader Needs to Know and Be Able to Do New Leaders for New Schools – Principal Effectiveness Paper National Association for Elementary School Principals (NAESP): Leading Learning Communities: Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do   Do these standards describe teacher and principal effectiveness?  Let us know what you think in this survey.   These are only a handful of the organizations that have made an effort to define quality through a set of standards, and while there are similarities is common ground, they are far from identical. Can there be only one definition of effectiveness? Perhaps there are several: tell us what you think in the survey, and in the comments below! In thinking about access and equity, teacher effectiveness is at the core. How do we know that students have equitable access if we are not sure what constitutes an effective educator? Many organizations strive to address this issue through the development of standards that define an effective teacher or principal:   Teacher Standards: Council of Chief School State Officers (CCSSO) – Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue (PDF)  National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) – The Five Core Propositions Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership – National Professional Standards for Teachers (PDF) Principal Standards: E-Lead – Standards for School Leadership Practice: What a Leader Needs to Know and Be Able to Do New Leaders for New Schools – Principal Effectiveness Paper National Association for Elementary School Principals (NAESP): Leading Learning Communities: Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do   Do these standards describe teacher and principal effectiveness?  Let us know what you think in this survey.   These are only a handful of the organizations that have made an effort to define quality through a set of standards, and while there are similarities is common ground, they are far from identical. Can there be only one definition of effectiveness? Perhaps there are several: tell us what you think in the survey, and in the comments below! Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:45:42 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Forum-Take-the-Access-and-Equity-Survey/blog/6506581/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-01-28T21:45:42Z ASCD EDge In thinking about access and equity, teacher effectiveness is at the core. How do we know that students have equitable access if we are not sure what constitutes an effective educator? Many organizations strive to address this issue through the development of standards that define an effective teacher or principal:   Teacher Standards: Council of Chief School State Officers (CCSSO) – Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue (PDF)  National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) – The Five Core Propositions Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership – National Professional Standards for Teachers (PDF) Principal Standards: E-Lead – Standards for School Leadership Practice: What a Leader Needs to Know and Be Able to Do New Leaders for New Schools – Principal Effectiveness Paper National Association for Elementary School Principals (NAESP): Leading Learning Communities: Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do   Do these standards describe teacher and principal effectiveness?  Let us know what you think in this survey.   These are only a handful of the organizations that have made an effort to define quality through a set of standards, and while there are similarities is common ground, they are far from identical. Can there be only one definition of effectiveness? Perhaps there are several: tell us what you think in the survey, and in the comments below! access, ascd forum, educator effectiveness, equity nonadult false ASCD Forum: Take the Access and Equity Survey text blog access,ascd forum,educator effectiveness,equity 711 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6506581 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Forum-How-Do-We-Give-Students-Equitable-Access-to-Effective-Teachers-and-Principals/blog/6504499/127586.html   This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   With a topic as complex and challenging as educator effectiveness, where do you start? ASCD has decided to start the conversation on the theme of access and equity, for as Jason Flom wrote in his ASCD EDge blog post “Learned (In)Humanity:”  “If we endeavor for anything in our schools and learning communities, it seems imperative that we first and foremost strive for equity, equality, and justice for all.”   But what does that look like?   And how do we go about it?   That’s where ASCD needs your help. We need educator thoughts, perspectives, and insights to begin answering this question for students all over the world. The intersection of those educator views is the ASCD Forum,and we want you to be a part of it.   Educators are already sharing their thoughts on this topic, on ASCD EDge and on the #ASCDForum Twitter hashtag: Jason Flom shared his thoughts in the ASCD EDge post Mosaic of Effectiveness. He asserts on Twitter: “Too often we mistake rigor for relevance, achievement for well-being, accountability for quality. IMHO.” @Iowa ASCD asserts:“Coaching and feedback earns commitment from educators; evaluations often get you at most the compliance.”“At school, the only thing more important than an effective teacher for student success is an effective principal.” @CompassLearning invites us to check out NAESP’s principal evaluation initiative. @Betavt : “This (the ASCD Forum) is great. For too long we have been defined by others. We do a lousy job defining ourselves. We let it happen.” @Jeffmccoach: “‘Teacher’ and ‘Administrator’ covers a wide range of skills – standardizing a single approach to evaluation on effectiveness is inappropriate.” @CatFlippen : “This is REAL enrichment…great to see large organizations take up smart forums and Twitter chats!”  @Jessicacmumm: “Teacher effectiveness should be measured against the Characteristics of Effective Instruction.”  @FredEnde: "‘master learner’ doesn’t necessarily equal ‘effective teacher.’"   What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below or read this post for guidelines on other ways to participate in the ASCD Forum.   This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   With a topic as complex and challenging as educator effectiveness, where do you start? ASCD has decided to start the conversation on the theme of access and equity, for as Jason Flom wrote in his ASCD EDge blog post “Learned (In)Humanity:”  “If we endeavor for anything in our schools and learning communities, it seems imperative that we first and foremost strive for equity, equality, and justice for all.”   But what does that look like?   And how do we go about it?   That’s where ASCD needs your help. We need educator thoughts, perspectives, and insights to begin answering this question for students all over the world. The intersection of those educator views is the ASCD Forum,and we want you to be a part of it.   Educators are already sharing their thoughts on this topic, on ASCD EDge and on the #ASCDForum Twitter hashtag: Jason Flom shared his thoughts in the ASCD EDge post Mosaic of Effectiveness. He asserts on Twitter: “Too often we mistake rigor for relevance, achievement for well-being, accountability for quality. IMHO.” @Iowa ASCD asserts:“Coaching and feedback earns commitment from educators; evaluations often get you at most the compliance.”“At school, the only thing more important than an effective teacher for student success is an effective principal.” @CompassLearning invites us to check out NAESP’s principal evaluation initiative. @Betavt : “This (the ASCD Forum) is great. For too long we have been defined by others. We do a lousy job defining ourselves. We let it happen.” @Jeffmccoach: “‘Teacher’ and ‘Administrator’ covers a wide range of skills – standardizing a single approach to evaluation on effectiveness is inappropriate.” @CatFlippen : “This is REAL enrichment…great to see large organizations take up smart forums and Twitter chats!”  @Jessicacmumm: “Teacher effectiveness should be measured against the Characteristics of Effective Instruction.”  @FredEnde: "‘master learner’ doesn’t necessarily equal ‘effective teacher.’"   What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below or read this post for guidelines on other ways to participate in the ASCD Forum. Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:40:04 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Forum-How-Do-We-Give-Students-Equitable-Access-to-Effective-Teachers-and-Principals/blog/6504499/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-01-25T02:40:04Z ASCD EDge   This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum.   With a topic as complex and challenging as educator effectiveness, where do you start? ASCD has decided to start the conversation on the theme of access and equity, for as Jason Flom wrote in his ASCD EDge blog post “Learned (In)Humanity:”  “If we endeavor for anything in our schools and learning communities, it seems imperative that we first and foremost strive for equity, equality, and justice for all.”   But what does that look like?   And how do we go about it?   That’s where ASCD needs your help. We need educator thoughts, perspectives, and insights to begin answering this question for students all over the world. The intersection of those educator views is the ASCD Forum,and we want you to be a part of it.   Educators are already sharing their thoughts on this topic, on ASCD EDge and on the #ASCDForum Twitter hashtag: Jason Flom shared his thoughts in the ASCD EDge post Mosaic of Effectiveness. He asserts on Twitter: “Too often we mistake rigor for relevance, achievement for well-being, accountability for quality. IMHO.” @Iowa ASCD asserts:“Coaching and feedback earns commitment from educators; evaluations often get you at most the compliance.”“At school, the only thing more important than an effective teacher for student success is an effective principal.” @CompassLearning invites us to check out NAESP’s principal evaluation initiative. @Betavt : “This (the ASCD Forum) is great. For too long we have been defined by others. We do a lousy job defining ourselves. We let it happen.” @Jeffmccoach: “‘Teacher’ and ‘Administrator’ covers a wide range of skills – standardizing a single approach to evaluation on effectiveness is inappropriate.” @CatFlippen : “This is REAL enrichment…great to see large organizations take up smart forums and Twitter chats!”  @Jessicacmumm: “Teacher effectiveness should be measured against the Characteristics of Effective Instruction.”  @FredEnde: "‘master learner’ doesn’t necessarily equal ‘effective teacher.’"   What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below or read this post for guidelines on other ways to participate in the ASCD Forum. nonadult false ASCD Forum: How Do We Give Students Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Principals? text blog 496 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6504499 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_Welcome-to-the-ASCD-Forum/blog/6501383/127586.html   Across the globe, nations, districts, schools, and individuals face a timely and complex issue: How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?   Is there a definitive answer to this challenging question? We’re not sure, but we would like to find out. ASCD is convening the inaugural ASCD Forum from January 22 to April 12, 2013, to focus educator conversation and insight on this important topic.   How it Works All educators are encouraged to join in the ASCD Forum, which will focus on a series of themes to help guide discussion:   ·         Equity and Access (January 22–February 2): How do we give students across the globe equitable access to effective teachers and principals? ·         Educator Preparation (February 3–16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? ·         Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17–March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? ·         Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3–16): What research and evidence supports the validity of existing evaluation systems? ·         Multiple Measures (March 17–30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? ·         Conclusion: How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31–April 6) ·         Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7–12)   You have several ways to join the themed discussions: ·         ASCD EDge® social networking platform: ASCD invites you to join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge and write one or more blog posts on educator effectiveness, which may or may not be aligned with the themes that will structure the ongoing conversation. We ask that blog posts adhere to the following guidelines: o   Tags: We ask that all ASCD Forum posts be written through your free profile on ASCD EDge and tagged to the ASCD Forum group. In order to tag your post to the group, you need to join the ASCD Forum group. When writing your blog post draft, the bottom of the page has an option called “Add blog post to groups.” Select “ASCD Forum” before selecting “add blog post” to publish your post. o   Structure: Feel free to structure your blog post any way you like; it can be a personal story, research, tips, an opinion piece, resources, and so forth. If your piece is more than 500 words, we recommend breaking it up into a series of several posts over the course of a week. o   Format: We ask that you include the following header in your blog post: This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum. o   Number of posts: You can contribute any number of posts to the ASCD Forum. We are looking for a rich, diverse online conversation with as much participation from as many educators as possible. o   Review: ASCD Forum posts do not need to be approved or reviewed before you post them. If you would like feedback on a blog post draft, please send it to constituentservices@ascd.org, and ASCD staff will give you feedback within two business days. o   Post responses: We invite you to comment on other ASCD Forum posts to help us cultivate a deep and comprehensive conversation on educator effectiveness. ·         Twitter: All tweets relating to the ASCD Forum should include the #ASCDForum hashtag. If you would like to share a resource on educator effectiveness or promote your ASCD EDge blog post, please add the hashtag. We are also holding an ASCD Forum kickoff Twitter chat on Tuesday, January 22, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. eastern time with ASCD Policy Director David Griffith. ·         Annual Conference: A face-to-face session of the ASCD Forum will take place at the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, March 17, which will also stream live through the ASCD Virtual Conference. This session, moderated by ASCD President Debra Hill, will use both live and virtual participation from the audience to continue the conversation about educator effectiveness. ·         Complete a short survey: In an effort to gather quantitative as well as qualitative feedback from educators on the topic of teacher and principal effectiveness, ASCD has developed a series of individual surveys aligned with the ASCD Forum themes. We invite all educators to take a few minutes to complete each survey and help give us a more comprehensive picture of how educators view teacher and principal effectiveness. Surveys will be posted in the ASCD Forum group and to the ASCD Forum homepage at www.ascd.org/ascdforum. We hope you will join us for this conversation, which is the first of its kind for ASCD. The ASCD Forum was created to give educators a voice on education issues of worldwide significance. We are excited for this unique challenge and we hope you are too. Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org or find me on Twitter @msimps01.   Across the globe, nations, districts, schools, and individuals face a timely and complex issue: How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?   Is there a definitive answer to this challenging question? We’re not sure, but we would like to find out. ASCD is convening the inaugural ASCD Forum from January 22 to April 12, 2013, to focus educator conversation and insight on this important topic.   How it Works All educators are encouraged to join in the ASCD Forum, which will focus on a series of themes to help guide discussion:   ·         Equity and Access (January 22–February 2): How do we give students across the globe equitable access to effective teachers and principals? ·         Educator Preparation (February 3–16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? ·         Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17–March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? ·         Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3–16): What research and evidence supports the validity of existing evaluation systems? ·         Multiple Measures (March 17–30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? ·         Conclusion: How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31–April 6) ·         Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7–12)   You have several ways to join the themed discussions: ·         ASCD EDge® social networking platform: ASCD invites you to join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge and write one or more blog posts on educator effectiveness, which may or may not be aligned with the themes that will structure the ongoing conversation. We ask that blog posts adhere to the following guidelines: o   Tags: We ask that all ASCD Forum posts be written through your free profile on ASCD EDge and tagged to the ASCD Forum group. In order to tag your post to the group, you need to join the ASCD Forum group. When writing your blog post draft, the bottom of the page has an option called “Add blog post to groups.” Select “ASCD Forum” before selecting “add blog post” to publish your post. o   Structure: Feel free to structure your blog post any way you like; it can be a personal story, research, tips, an opinion piece, resources, and so forth. If your piece is more than 500 words, we recommend breaking it up into a series of several posts over the course of a week. o   Format: We ask that you include the following header in your blog post: This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum. o   Number of posts: You can contribute any number of posts to the ASCD Forum. We are looking for a rich, diverse online conversation with as much participation from as many educators as possible. o   Review: ASCD Forum posts do not need to be approved or reviewed before you post them. If you would like feedback on a blog post draft, please send it to constituentservices@ascd.org, and ASCD staff will give you feedback within two business days. o   Post responses: We invite you to comment on other ASCD Forum posts to help us cultivate a deep and comprehensive conversation on educator effectiveness. ·         Twitter: All tweets relating to the ASCD Forum should include the #ASCDForum hashtag. If you would like to share a resource on educator effectiveness or promote your ASCD EDge blog post, please add the hashtag. We are also holding an ASCD Forum kickoff Twitter chat on Tuesday, January 22, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. eastern time with ASCD Policy Director David Griffith. ·         Annual Conference: A face-to-face session of the ASCD Forum will take place at the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, March 17, which will also stream live through the ASCD Virtual Conference. This session, moderated by ASCD President Debra Hill, will use both live and virtual participation from the audience to continue the conversation about educator effectiveness. ·         Complete a short survey: In an effort to gather quantitative as well as qualitative feedback from educators on the topic of teacher and principal effectiveness, ASCD has developed a series of individual surveys aligned with the ASCD Forum themes. We invite all educators to take a few minutes to complete each survey and help give us a more comprehensive picture of how educators view teacher and principal effectiveness. Surveys will be posted in the ASCD Forum group and to the ASCD Forum homepage at www.ascd.org/ascdforum. We hope you will join us for this conversation, which is the first of its kind for ASCD. The ASCD Forum was created to give educators a voice on education issues of worldwide significance. We are excited for this unique challenge and we hope you are too. Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org or find me on Twitter @msimps01. Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:10:59 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_Welcome-to-the-ASCD-Forum/blog/6501383/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-01-23T06:10:59Z ASCD EDge   Across the globe, nations, districts, schools, and individuals face a timely and complex issue: How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?   Is there a definitive answer to this challenging question? We’re not sure, but we would like to find out. ASCD is convening the inaugural ASCD Forum from January 22 to April 12, 2013, to focus educator conversation and insight on this important topic.   How it Works All educators are encouraged to join in the ASCD Forum, which will focus on a series of themes to help guide discussion:   ·         Equity and Access (January 22–February 2): How do we give students across the globe equitable access to effective teachers and principals? ·         Educator Preparation (February 3–16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? ·         Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17–March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? ·         Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3–16): What research and evidence supports the validity of existing evaluation systems? ·         Multiple Measures (March 17–30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? ·         Conclusion: How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31–April 6) ·         Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7–12)   You have several ways to join the themed discussions: ·         ASCD EDge® social networking platform: ASCD invites you to join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge and write one or more blog posts on educator effectiveness, which may or may not be aligned with the themes that will structure the ongoing conversation. We ask that blog posts adhere to the following guidelines: o   Tags: We ask that all ASCD Forum posts be written through your free profile on ASCD EDge and tagged to the ASCD Forum group. In order to tag your post to the group, you need to join the ASCD Forum group. When writing your blog post draft, the bottom of the page has an option called “Add blog post to groups.” Select “ASCD Forum” before selecting “add blog post” to publish your post. o   Structure: Feel free to structure your blog post any way you like; it can be a personal story, research, tips, an opinion piece, resources, and so forth. If your piece is more than 500 words, we recommend breaking it up into a series of several posts over the course of a week. o   Format: We ask that you include the following header in your blog post: This post is a part of the ASCD Forum conversation “how do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” To learn more about the ASCD Forum, go to www.ascd.org/ascdforum. o   Number of posts: You can contribute any number of posts to the ASCD Forum. We are looking for a rich, diverse online conversation with as much participation from as many educators as possible. o   Review: ASCD Forum posts do not need to be approved or reviewed before you post them. If you would like feedback on a blog post draft, please send it to constituentservices@ascd.org, and ASCD staff will give you feedback within two business days. o   Post responses: We invite you to comment on other ASCD Forum posts to help us cultivate a deep and comprehensive conversation on educator effectiveness. ·         Twitter: All tweets relating to the ASCD Forum should include the #ASCDForum hashtag. If you would like to share a resource on educator effectiveness or promote your ASCD EDge blog post, please add the hashtag. We are also holding an ASCD Forum kickoff Twitter chat on Tuesday, January 22, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. eastern time with ASCD Policy Director David Griffith. ·         Annual Conference: A face-to-face session of the ASCD Forum will take place at the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, March 17, which will also stream live through the ASCD Virtual Conference. This session, moderated by ASCD President Debra Hill, will use both live and virtual participation from the audience to continue the conversation about educator effectiveness. ·         Complete a short survey: In an effort to gather quantitative as well as qualitative feedback from educators on the topic of teacher and principal effectiveness, ASCD has developed a series of individual surveys aligned with the ASCD Forum themes. We invite all educators to take a few minutes to complete each survey and help give us a more comprehensive picture of how educators view teacher and principal effectiveness. Surveys will be posted in the ASCD Forum group and to the ASCD Forum homepage at www.ascd.org/ascdforum. We hope you will join us for this conversation, which is the first of its kind for ASCD. The ASCD Forum was created to give educators a voice on education issues of worldwide significance. We are excited for this unique challenge and we hope you are too. Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org or find me on Twitter @msimps01. ascd forum, principal effectiveness, teacher effectiveness nonadult false Welcome to the ASCD Forum text blog ascd forum,principal effectiveness,teacher effectiveness 1663 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6501383 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-January-2013/blog/6499643/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üWe are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18. üSubmit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is now accepting proposals for 2014 ASCD Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   The ASCD Forum Kicks Off Next Week For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” Discussion themes will include Equity and Access (January 22 – February 2): How do we give students across the globe equitable access to effective teachers and principals? Educator Preparation (February 3-16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17 – March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3 – 16):  What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6)  Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum starts January 22 and concludes April 12. To join the conversation, educators are invited to blog on ASCD EDge, comment on other blog posts, take a survey, and attend a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversation will inform the ASCD Board of Directors position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.    Emerging Leaders Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Learn more about 2011 Emerging Leader Victoria Ayam, 2012 Emerging Leader Robert Zywicki, and 2011 Emerging Leader Krista Rundell.   Affiliate Presidents’ Posts Featured on ASCD Inservice Blog ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the second post of the series, Arkansas ASCD President Joe Fisher writes about the challenges and successes that Arkansas has had with CCSS implementation. New Hampshire ASCD President Bill Carozza offers his perspective in the third post of the series. Revisitthe first post focused on CCSS implementation in Florida by Florida ASCD President Alina Davis.   Please Welcome the ASCD Instructional Technology Professional Interest Community! ASCD is pleased to announce that the Instructional Technology group is the latest addition to ASCD’s Professional Interest Communities. Stefanie Rosenberg Wager (Cortes) is the group’s founder and a 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader. Please join her group on ASCD EDge.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share. College and Career Ready Clearly Isn’t Enoughby 2012 Emerging Leader Fred Ende 3 Steps to Getting a Grant for Your School by 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn What Vision is Pulling You?, Obstacles or Opportunities by 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson School Violence When Will It Endby 2011 Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson   2013-14 Educational Leadership Themes The selected themes for the upcoming publishing year are as follows: September 2013: Resilience and Learning October 2013: Leveraging Teacher Leadership November 2013: Tackling Informational Text December 2013/January 2014: Getting Students to Mastery February 2014: Building School Morale March 2014: Using Assessments Thoughtfully April 2014: Writing: A Core Skill May 2014: The New Face of Professional Development Write for Educational Leadership magazine.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News Targeted ASCD Books, Institutes Released to Strengthen Common Core Implementation Nationwide—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of four new grade-level and subject-specific books in the Understanding the Common Core Standards series. Written by the experts at McREL and edited by a leading authority in standards implementation, John Kendall, these quick-start guides are now available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ASCD Expands Professional Development Team by Appointing Valda Valbrun New Director of Professional Development—ASCD has expanded its professional development team by appointing Valda Valbrun as the association’s new Director of Professional Development. In this role, Valbrun will help lead the development and implementation of ASCD’s capacity-building solutions. Read the full press release. ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show Sessions Feature Cutting-Edge Solutions to Current Issues in Education—ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show features new sessions on some of the most important topics in education. Built on the theme, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held March 16–18 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2013 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the association’s 2013 Virtual Conference. The 2013 Virtual Conference will run concurrent with ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 16–18, in Chicago, Ill. Read the full press release. ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show Sessions Feature Cutting-Edge Solutions to Current Issues in Education—ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show features new sessions on some of the most important topics in education. Built on the theme, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held March 16–18 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release.     ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üWe are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18. üSubmit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is now accepting proposals for 2014 ASCD Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   The ASCD Forum Kicks Off Next Week For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” Discussion themes will include Equity and Access (January 22 – February 2): How do we give students across the globe equitable access to effective teachers and principals? Educator Preparation (February 3-16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17 – March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3 – 16):  What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6)  Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum starts January 22 and concludes April 12. To join the conversation, educators are invited to blog on ASCD EDge, comment on other blog posts, take a survey, and attend a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversation will inform the ASCD Board of Directors position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.    Emerging Leaders Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Learn more about 2011 Emerging Leader Victoria Ayam, 2012 Emerging Leader Robert Zywicki, and 2011 Emerging Leader Krista Rundell.   Affiliate Presidents’ Posts Featured on ASCD Inservice Blog ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the second post of the series, Arkansas ASCD President Joe Fisher writes about the challenges and successes that Arkansas has had with CCSS implementation. New Hampshire ASCD President Bill Carozza offers his perspective in the third post of the series. Revisitthe first post focused on CCSS implementation in Florida by Florida ASCD President Alina Davis.   Please Welcome the ASCD Instructional Technology Professional Interest Community! ASCD is pleased to announce that the Instructional Technology group is the latest addition to ASCD’s Professional Interest Communities. Stefanie Rosenberg Wager (Cortes) is the group’s founder and a 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader. Please join her group on ASCD EDge.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share. College and Career Ready Clearly Isn’t Enoughby 2012 Emerging Leader Fred Ende 3 Steps to Getting a Grant for Your School by 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn What Vision is Pulling You?, Obstacles or Opportunities by 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson School Violence When Will It Endby 2011 Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson   2013-14 Educational Leadership Themes The selected themes for the upcoming publishing year are as follows: September 2013: Resilience and Learning October 2013: Leveraging Teacher Leadership November 2013: Tackling Informational Text December 2013/January 2014: Getting Students to Mastery February 2014: Building School Morale March 2014: Using Assessments Thoughtfully April 2014: Writing: A Core Skill May 2014: The New Face of Professional Development Write for Educational Leadership magazine.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News Targeted ASCD Books, Institutes Released to Strengthen Common Core Implementation Nationwide—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of four new grade-level and subject-specific books in the Understanding the Common Core Standards series. Written by the experts at McREL and edited by a leading authority in standards implementation, John Kendall, these quick-start guides are now available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ASCD Expands Professional Development Team by Appointing Valda Valbrun New Director of Professional Development—ASCD has expanded its professional development team by appointing Valda Valbrun as the association’s new Director of Professional Development. In this role, Valbrun will help lead the development and implementation of ASCD’s capacity-building solutions. Read the full press release. ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show Sessions Feature Cutting-Edge Solutions to Current Issues in Education—ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show features new sessions on some of the most important topics in education. Built on the theme, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held March 16–18 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2013 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the association’s 2013 Virtual Conference. The 2013 Virtual Conference will run concurrent with ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 16–18, in Chicago, Ill. Read the full press release. ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show Sessions Feature Cutting-Edge Solutions to Current Issues in Education—ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show features new sessions on some of the most important topics in education. Built on the theme, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held March 16–18 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release.     Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:33:53 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-January-2013/blog/6499643/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2013-01-17T18:33:53Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üWe are seeking blog post writers for the ASCD Forum. How do you think teacher and principal effectiveness should be defined and measured? Constituent Services is seeking ASCD leaders who are interested in writing blog posts aligned with a series of themes on the topic of educator effectiveness. To learn more, e-mail Meg Simpson at constituentservices@ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18. üSubmit a proposal for ASCD’s 2014 Annual Conference. ASCD is now accepting proposals for 2014 ASCD Annual Conference presentations until May 15.   The ASCD Forum Kicks Off Next Week For the first time, ASCD is hosting a forum to focus on a topic of importance to educators across the globe. Nations, states, and provinces all around the world are grappling with the issue of educator effectiveness. ASCD invites all educators to make their voices heard in an ongoing discussion of the question, “How do we define and measure teacher and principal effectiveness?” Discussion themes will include Equity and Access (January 22 – February 2): How do we give students across the globe equitable access to effective teachers and principals? Educator Preparation (February 3-16): What is the role and responsibility of educator preparation programs to foster and sustain effectiveness? Educator Evaluation Purpose (February 17 – March 2): What is the purpose of educator evaluation systems? Educator Evaluation Systems (March 3 – 16):  What research and evidence support the validity of existing evaluation systems? Multiple Measures (March 17 – 30): What measures do we use and how do we weight them to measure educator effectiveness? Conclusion:How do we define and measure teacher effectiveness? (March 31 – April 6)  Conclusion: How do we define and measure principal effectiveness? (April 7 – 12)       The ASCD Forum starts January 22 and concludes April 12. To join the conversation, educators are invited to blog on ASCD EDge, comment on other blog posts, take a survey, and attend a live session at ASCD Annual Conference. Results from the ASCD Forum conversation will inform the ASCD Board of Directors position development process. To learn more about the ASCD Forum, join the ASCD Forum group on ASCD EDge or contact constituentservices@ascd.org.    Emerging Leaders Featured in ASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Learn more about 2011 Emerging Leader Victoria Ayam, 2012 Emerging Leader Robert Zywicki, and 2011 Emerging Leader Krista Rundell.   Affiliate Presidents’ Posts Featured on ASCD Inservice Blog ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the second post of the series, Arkansas ASCD President Joe Fisher writes about the challenges and successes that Arkansas has had with CCSS implementation. New Hampshire ASCD President Bill Carozza offers his perspective in the third post of the series. Revisitthe first post focused on CCSS implementation in Florida by Florida ASCD President Alina Davis.   Please Welcome the ASCD Instructional Technology Professional Interest Community! ASCD is pleased to announce that the Instructional Technology group is the latest addition to ASCD’s Professional Interest Communities. Stefanie Rosenberg Wager (Cortes) is the group’s founder and a 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader. Please join her group on ASCD EDge.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share. College and Career Ready Clearly Isn’t Enoughby 2012 Emerging Leader Fred Ende 3 Steps to Getting a Grant for Your School by 2012 Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn What Vision is Pulling You?, Obstacles or Opportunities by 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson School Violence When Will It Endby 2011 Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson   2013-14 Educational Leadership Themes The selected themes for the upcoming publishing year are as follows: September 2013: Resilience and Learning October 2013: Leveraging Teacher Leadership November 2013: Tackling Informational Text December 2013/January 2014: Getting Students to Mastery February 2014: Building School Morale March 2014: Using Assessments Thoughtfully April 2014: Writing: A Core Skill May 2014: The New Face of Professional Development Write for Educational Leadership magazine.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News Targeted ASCD Books, Institutes Released to Strengthen Common Core Implementation Nationwide—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of four new grade-level and subject-specific books in the Understanding the Common Core Standards series. Written by the experts at McREL and edited by a leading authority in standards implementation, John Kendall, these quick-start guides are now available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ASCD Expands Professional Development Team by Appointing Valda Valbrun New Director of Professional Development—ASCD has expanded its professional development team by appointing Valda Valbrun as the association’s new Director of Professional Development. In this role, Valbrun will help lead the development and implementation of ASCD’s capacity-building solutions. Read the full press release. ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show Sessions Feature Cutting-Edge Solutions to Current Issues in Education—ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show features new sessions on some of the most important topics in education. Built on the theme, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held March 16–18 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2013 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the association’s 2013 Virtual Conference. The 2013 Virtual Conference will run concurrent with ASCD’s 68th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 16–18, in Chicago, Ill. Read the full press release. ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show Sessions Feature Cutting-Edge Solutions to Current Issues in Education—ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show features new sessions on some of the most important topics in education. Built on the theme, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held March 16–18 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release.     nonadult false L2L News: January 2013 text blog 405 1 5.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6499643 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-December-2012/blog/6487670/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Action Items for ASCD Leaders Submit your Ignite Session Proposal by January 9. Embodied in the tagline, “enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presenters have 5 minutes to present on any topic of interest using 20 PowerPoint slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. (Learn more about Ignite.) The theme of this Ignite session is “Your Whole Child Story.” We have found in general that the best presentations are on topics that personally inspire or motivate the presenter. We’re looking for fun, creative, out-of-the-box ideas, so please keep that in mind when completing your presentation proposal. Please note that the Ignite session proposals are only open to L2L ASCD leaders. Save the date for the 2013 Leader to Leader Conference. The 2013 L2L Conference will take place July 18–20, 2013 at the Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, Va. Stay tuned for more details and information in the spring. Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA). This institute is an outstanding opportunity to network with fellow educators, share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments. Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on www.ascd.org.  Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.   Why You Should Attend the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), one of the association’s most unique experiences for educators, provides participants with the opportunity to learn from some of the nation’s leading education thinkers and policymakers in a much more personal setting than the usual conference. Register for LILA now to take advantage of the conference’s hands-on format so that you can gain the skills and knowledge to make a difference.   LILA takes place January 27–29, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Read on for some of the features that set this conference apart.     Up Close and Personal: Ample opportunity to hear from and ask influential speakers like Diane Ravitch and National Teacher of the Year RebeccaMieliwocki about their unfiltered insights on the latest education developments. Inside Scoop: Information from Capitol Hill and U.S. Department of Education influencers, including their firsthand perspectives on current education policy debates and priorities and what those mean for the status of No Child Left Behind and other federal education legislation. Sneak Peek: A first look at ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda, which is developed by educators for educators and drives the organization’s policy priorities for the coming year. Advocate Extraordinaire: Tailored advocacy training and customizable resources to help you advocate for better education policy at the federal, state, and local levels now and throughout the year. Make a Difference: Personal meetings with members of Congress and their education aides where you can share your expertise and discuss the education issues that matter the most to you.     Space is limited and the registration deadline is fast approaching! Register for this premier legislative conference today and check out the conference agenda as well as the registration and travel information. Questions? Contact ASCD’s policy team at policy@ascd.org.   New ASCD Policy Points on Sequestration and Education Now Available Learn all you need to know about sequestration and its consequences for educators and schools in the latest issue of Policy Points, ASCD’s newest policy publication. Sequestration, the 8.2 percent deep, across-the-board cuts to nearly all federal spending, will happen in January 2013 unless Congress acts to stop it. For education programs, this means a loss of more than $4 billion in federal funding. Unless lawmakers act soon, the potential loss of educator jobs, programs, transportation, and key school services could have a devastating effect in every state. Policy Points explains how we got to this point, outlines what sequestration means for education, and shares action steps that educators like you can take to help stop sequestration. Take one of these steps today, and urge your federal lawmakers to stop sequestration before time runs out and our nation’s students are forced to pay the price for Congress’s inaction. Check out the new Whole Child Tenets document The Whole Child Programs Unit within Constituent Services has released a new copy of the whole child tenets document (PDF).  In addition to having an updated design, the new layout allows users to see connections between the indicators that describe a tenet, and their correlating components, which were also identified for the ASCD School Improvement Tool. We hope users will find the new format more user-friendly as you work with schools, districts and states to support a whole child approach to education. We believe it to be the most comprehensive way to help educators in the field understand the real scope of a whole child approach.                     Emerging Leaders Featured inASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Learn more about 2012 Emerging Leader Daina Lieberman and  2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson.     Florida ASCD Leader Post Featured in ASCD Inserviceand Core Connection ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the first post of the series,Florida ASCD President and Emerging Leader alum Alina Davis writes about the challenges and successes that Florida has had with CCSS implementation. This post was also featured in the December 5 issue of ASCD’s Common Core e-newsletter, Core Connection.   Please Welcome Montclair State University to the ASCD Student Chapter Program ASCD is pleased to announce that Montclair State University has been accepted into our ASCD Student Chapter Program. The student leaders are enthusiastically planning recruitment events and other activities for the coming semester. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, go to www.ascd.org/chapters.     Congratulations! New Mexico ASCD Secretary Toni Hull is a 2012 Teaching Ambassador Fellow for the U.S. Department of Education. 2011 Emerging Leader Torian White was recently appointed as interim principal in his school district, and after this school year, the position will become permanent. White is also featured in the Annual Conference video series: listen to his story about an educator who made a difference in his life. 2009 OYEA Winner Bijal Damani was recently selected to become a Google Certified Teacher, and last month she received the DerozioAward for Education and Human Enrichment from the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE). Other News 2012 Emerging Leader Erica Ringelspaugh is currently blogging for Wisconsin ASCD. Check out her blog, “What Erica Knows.” Check out Iowa ASCD’s blog!       ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDgecommunity site. Please read, comment, and share! Solving the “Play” Problem, Disconnected Doesn’t Mean “Not Connected,” 2012 Emerging Leader Fred Ende  Cogito Ergo Sum, Should Students Live Someone Else’s Education?, Comprehensive Planning, Improvise, 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson We Need More Poetry in Social Studies, Build and Sustain a Successful AP Economics Program, SMART Goal for the Common Core, Tackling the Common Core, 2012 Emerging Leader Robert Zywicki Supporting New Principals (survey link included), Professional Interest Community Facilitator Amelia Hicks  Think Globally, Act Locally, 2012 Emerging Leader Steven Anderson An Introduction to the Concept of Complexity, 2012 Emerging Leader Kevin Goddard    ASCD Can Help Support Your Common Core Efforts Are you interested in having a session presenter or keynote speaker on Common Core implementation at your next event? ASCD has resources and assistance available to state affiliates that will help to inform your members and educators  about implementing the Common Core standards. ASCD’s recent reportFulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards: Moving from Adoption to Implementation to Sustainability illuminates activities educators at all levels can undertake to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards across the nation. The report and its implementation recommendations have already been successfully presented at events held by Utah ASCD, Ohio ASCD, and North Carolina ASCD. If you are interested in learning more about these opportunities, e-mail  Efrain Mercado, lead strategist for the Common Core State Standards, at both efrain.mercado@ascd.org andConstituentServices@ascd.org. A Progress Report on Teacher Evaluation Teacher quality is the most important in-school factor influencing student learning and achievement. Research shows that students with high-performing teachers can progress three times as fast as students with low-performing teachers and each student deserves access to highly effective teachers in every subject. In turn, all teachers deserve a fair and accurate assessment of their skills, how they perform in the classroom, and how they can improve. Teacher effectiveness is dependent on accurate and fair evaluations, based on multiple measures, including—but not solely based around—their students’ performance in the subjects they teach. If the ultimate goal of teacher evaluation is to improve student performance, what should evaluators look for? Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In November, we looked at the current teacher evaluation landscape. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Mike Blakeslee, deputy executive director and chief operating officer of the National Association for Music Education, a whole child partner organization and member of ASCD's College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness Coalition; Bryan Goodwin, vice president of communications at McREL, based in Denver, Colo.; and Cindy Weber, superintendent of Durand Area Schools in Durand, Mich. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read this month's newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. ASCD’s Educational Leadership also focused on fair and effective teacher evaluation in its November issue, featuring articles by Robert J. Marzano, Charlotte Danielson, Tony Frontier, Thomas R. Hoerr, Carol Ann Tomlinson, and other experts and practitioners. Topics, research, and commentary include peer review, classroom observation, value-added measures, school district examples from across the United States, and lessons from South Korea.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ·         New Professional Development Resources from ASCD Support Problem-Based Learning, Differentiated Instruction, and Common Core Implementation—ASCD announces the release of a series of new PD In Focus® videos, as well as two PD Online® courses. These new resources focus on supporting educators in implementing problem-based learning, differentiated instruction, and the Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release. ·         Thomas Armstrong Presents Strength-Based Model for Teaching Learners with Special Needs in New Book—ASCD is pleased to announce the release ofNeurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life by seasoned educator and best-selling author Thomas Armstrong. This new professional development book is available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Authors Headline 2013 Annual Conference Pre-Conference Institutes— ASCD announced the pre-conference session lineup for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, being held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill. The three-, two-, and one-day Pre-Conference Institutes will be held March 13–15 and offer intensive learning experiences on curriculum, instruction, assessment, and more. Read the full press release. ·         Atlanta Public Schools Select Digital Solutions from ASCD to Support Professional Development Goals—Atlanta Public Schools (APS), serving more than 51,000 students in the greater Atlanta, Ga., metro area, has become the latest school system to select digital solutions from ASCD to meet theirdistrictwide professional development goals. Read the full press release.   ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Action Items for ASCD Leaders Submit your Ignite Session Proposal by January 9. Embodied in the tagline, “enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presenters have 5 minutes to present on any topic of interest using 20 PowerPoint slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. (Learn more about Ignite.) The theme of this Ignite session is “Your Whole Child Story.” We have found in general that the best presentations are on topics that personally inspire or motivate the presenter. We’re looking for fun, creative, out-of-the-box ideas, so please keep that in mind when completing your presentation proposal. Please note that the Ignite session proposals are only open to L2L ASCD leaders. Save the date for the 2013 Leader to Leader Conference. The 2013 L2L Conference will take place July 18–20, 2013 at the Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, Va. Stay tuned for more details and information in the spring. Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA). This institute is an outstanding opportunity to network with fellow educators, share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments. Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on www.ascd.org.  Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.   Why You Should Attend the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), one of the association’s most unique experiences for educators, provides participants with the opportunity to learn from some of the nation’s leading education thinkers and policymakers in a much more personal setting than the usual conference. Register for LILA now to take advantage of the conference’s hands-on format so that you can gain the skills and knowledge to make a difference.   LILA takes place January 27–29, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Read on for some of the features that set this conference apart.     Up Close and Personal: Ample opportunity to hear from and ask influential speakers like Diane Ravitch and National Teacher of the Year RebeccaMieliwocki about their unfiltered insights on the latest education developments. Inside Scoop: Information from Capitol Hill and U.S. Department of Education influencers, including their firsthand perspectives on current education policy debates and priorities and what those mean for the status of No Child Left Behind and other federal education legislation. Sneak Peek: A first look at ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda, which is developed by educators for educators and drives the organization’s policy priorities for the coming year. Advocate Extraordinaire: Tailored advocacy training and customizable resources to help you advocate for better education policy at the federal, state, and local levels now and throughout the year. Make a Difference: Personal meetings with members of Congress and their education aides where you can share your expertise and discuss the education issues that matter the most to you.     Space is limited and the registration deadline is fast approaching! Register for this premier legislative conference today and check out the conference agenda as well as the registration and travel information. Questions? Contact ASCD’s policy team at policy@ascd.org.   New ASCD Policy Points on Sequestration and Education Now Available Learn all you need to know about sequestration and its consequences for educators and schools in the latest issue of Policy Points, ASCD’s newest policy publication. Sequestration, the 8.2 percent deep, across-the-board cuts to nearly all federal spending, will happen in January 2013 unless Congress acts to stop it. For education programs, this means a loss of more than $4 billion in federal funding. Unless lawmakers act soon, the potential loss of educator jobs, programs, transportation, and key school services could have a devastating effect in every state. Policy Points explains how we got to this point, outlines what sequestration means for education, and shares action steps that educators like you can take to help stop sequestration. Take one of these steps today, and urge your federal lawmakers to stop sequestration before time runs out and our nation’s students are forced to pay the price for Congress’s inaction. Check out the new Whole Child Tenets document The Whole Child Programs Unit within Constituent Services has released a new copy of the whole child tenets document (PDF).  In addition to having an updated design, the new layout allows users to see connections between the indicators that describe a tenet, and their correlating components, which were also identified for the ASCD School Improvement Tool. We hope users will find the new format more user-friendly as you work with schools, districts and states to support a whole child approach to education. We believe it to be the most comprehensive way to help educators in the field understand the real scope of a whole child approach.                     Emerging Leaders Featured inASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Learn more about 2012 Emerging Leader Daina Lieberman and  2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson.     Florida ASCD Leader Post Featured in ASCD Inserviceand Core Connection ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the first post of the series,Florida ASCD President and Emerging Leader alum Alina Davis writes about the challenges and successes that Florida has had with CCSS implementation. This post was also featured in the December 5 issue of ASCD’s Common Core e-newsletter, Core Connection.   Please Welcome Montclair State University to the ASCD Student Chapter Program ASCD is pleased to announce that Montclair State University has been accepted into our ASCD Student Chapter Program. The student leaders are enthusiastically planning recruitment events and other activities for the coming semester. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, go to www.ascd.org/chapters.     Congratulations! New Mexico ASCD Secretary Toni Hull is a 2012 Teaching Ambassador Fellow for the U.S. Department of Education. 2011 Emerging Leader Torian White was recently appointed as interim principal in his school district, and after this school year, the position will become permanent. White is also featured in the Annual Conference video series: listen to his story about an educator who made a difference in his life. 2009 OYEA Winner Bijal Damani was recently selected to become a Google Certified Teacher, and last month she received the DerozioAward for Education and Human Enrichment from the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE). Other News 2012 Emerging Leader Erica Ringelspaugh is currently blogging for Wisconsin ASCD. Check out her blog, “What Erica Knows.” Check out Iowa ASCD’s blog!       ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDgecommunity site. Please read, comment, and share! Solving the “Play” Problem, Disconnected Doesn’t Mean “Not Connected,” 2012 Emerging Leader Fred Ende  Cogito Ergo Sum, Should Students Live Someone Else’s Education?, Comprehensive Planning, Improvise, 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson We Need More Poetry in Social Studies, Build and Sustain a Successful AP Economics Program, SMART Goal for the Common Core, Tackling the Common Core, 2012 Emerging Leader Robert Zywicki Supporting New Principals (survey link included), Professional Interest Community Facilitator Amelia Hicks  Think Globally, Act Locally, 2012 Emerging Leader Steven Anderson An Introduction to the Concept of Complexity, 2012 Emerging Leader Kevin Goddard    ASCD Can Help Support Your Common Core Efforts Are you interested in having a session presenter or keynote speaker on Common Core implementation at your next event? ASCD has resources and assistance available to state affiliates that will help to inform your members and educators  about implementing the Common Core standards. ASCD’s recent reportFulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards: Moving from Adoption to Implementation to Sustainability illuminates activities educators at all levels can undertake to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards across the nation. The report and its implementation recommendations have already been successfully presented at events held by Utah ASCD, Ohio ASCD, and North Carolina ASCD. If you are interested in learning more about these opportunities, e-mail  Efrain Mercado, lead strategist for the Common Core State Standards, at both efrain.mercado@ascd.org andConstituentServices@ascd.org. A Progress Report on Teacher Evaluation Teacher quality is the most important in-school factor influencing student learning and achievement. Research shows that students with high-performing teachers can progress three times as fast as students with low-performing teachers and each student deserves access to highly effective teachers in every subject. In turn, all teachers deserve a fair and accurate assessment of their skills, how they perform in the classroom, and how they can improve. Teacher effectiveness is dependent on accurate and fair evaluations, based on multiple measures, including—but not solely based around—their students’ performance in the subjects they teach. If the ultimate goal of teacher evaluation is to improve student performance, what should evaluators look for? Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In November, we looked at the current teacher evaluation landscape. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Mike Blakeslee, deputy executive director and chief operating officer of the National Association for Music Education, a whole child partner organization and member of ASCD's College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness Coalition; Bryan Goodwin, vice president of communications at McREL, based in Denver, Colo.; and Cindy Weber, superintendent of Durand Area Schools in Durand, Mich. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read this month's newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. ASCD’s Educational Leadership also focused on fair and effective teacher evaluation in its November issue, featuring articles by Robert J. Marzano, Charlotte Danielson, Tony Frontier, Thomas R. Hoerr, Carol Ann Tomlinson, and other experts and practitioners. Topics, research, and commentary include peer review, classroom observation, value-added measures, school district examples from across the United States, and lessons from South Korea.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ·         New Professional Development Resources from ASCD Support Problem-Based Learning, Differentiated Instruction, and Common Core Implementation—ASCD announces the release of a series of new PD In Focus® videos, as well as two PD Online® courses. These new resources focus on supporting educators in implementing problem-based learning, differentiated instruction, and the Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release. ·         Thomas Armstrong Presents Strength-Based Model for Teaching Learners with Special Needs in New Book—ASCD is pleased to announce the release ofNeurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life by seasoned educator and best-selling author Thomas Armstrong. This new professional development book is available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Authors Headline 2013 Annual Conference Pre-Conference Institutes— ASCD announced the pre-conference session lineup for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, being held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill. The three-, two-, and one-day Pre-Conference Institutes will be held March 13–15 and offer intensive learning experiences on curriculum, instruction, assessment, and more. Read the full press release. ·         Atlanta Public Schools Select Digital Solutions from ASCD to Support Professional Development Goals—Atlanta Public Schools (APS), serving more than 51,000 students in the greater Atlanta, Ga., metro area, has become the latest school system to select digital solutions from ASCD to meet theirdistrictwide professional development goals. Read the full press release.   Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:07:42 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-December-2012/blog/6487670/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-12-13T18:07:42Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Action Items for ASCD Leaders Submit your Ignite Session Proposal by January 9. Embodied in the tagline, “enlighten us, but make it quick,” Ignite presenters have 5 minutes to present on any topic of interest using 20 PowerPoint slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. (Learn more about Ignite.) The theme of this Ignite session is “Your Whole Child Story.” We have found in general that the best presentations are on topics that personally inspire or motivate the presenter. We’re looking for fun, creative, out-of-the-box ideas, so please keep that in mind when completing your presentation proposal. Please note that the Ignite session proposals are only open to L2L ASCD leaders. Save the date for the 2013 Leader to Leader Conference. The 2013 L2L Conference will take place July 18–20, 2013 at the Hyatt Dulles in Herndon, Va. Stay tuned for more details and information in the spring. Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA). This institute is an outstanding opportunity to network with fellow educators, share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments. Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on www.ascd.org.  Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.   Why You Should Attend the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), one of the association’s most unique experiences for educators, provides participants with the opportunity to learn from some of the nation’s leading education thinkers and policymakers in a much more personal setting than the usual conference. Register for LILA now to take advantage of the conference’s hands-on format so that you can gain the skills and knowledge to make a difference.   LILA takes place January 27–29, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Read on for some of the features that set this conference apart.     Up Close and Personal: Ample opportunity to hear from and ask influential speakers like Diane Ravitch and National Teacher of the Year RebeccaMieliwocki about their unfiltered insights on the latest education developments. Inside Scoop: Information from Capitol Hill and U.S. Department of Education influencers, including their firsthand perspectives on current education policy debates and priorities and what those mean for the status of No Child Left Behind and other federal education legislation. Sneak Peek: A first look at ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda, which is developed by educators for educators and drives the organization’s policy priorities for the coming year. Advocate Extraordinaire: Tailored advocacy training and customizable resources to help you advocate for better education policy at the federal, state, and local levels now and throughout the year. Make a Difference: Personal meetings with members of Congress and their education aides where you can share your expertise and discuss the education issues that matter the most to you.     Space is limited and the registration deadline is fast approaching! Register for this premier legislative conference today and check out the conference agenda as well as the registration and travel information. Questions? Contact ASCD’s policy team at policy@ascd.org.   New ASCD Policy Points on Sequestration and Education Now Available Learn all you need to know about sequestration and its consequences for educators and schools in the latest issue of Policy Points, ASCD’s newest policy publication. Sequestration, the 8.2 percent deep, across-the-board cuts to nearly all federal spending, will happen in January 2013 unless Congress acts to stop it. For education programs, this means a loss of more than $4 billion in federal funding. Unless lawmakers act soon, the potential loss of educator jobs, programs, transportation, and key school services could have a devastating effect in every state. Policy Points explains how we got to this point, outlines what sequestration means for education, and shares action steps that educators like you can take to help stop sequestration. Take one of these steps today, and urge your federal lawmakers to stop sequestration before time runs out and our nation’s students are forced to pay the price for Congress’s inaction. Check out the new Whole Child Tenets document The Whole Child Programs Unit within Constituent Services has released a new copy of the whole child tenets document (PDF).  In addition to having an updated design, the new layout allows users to see connections between the indicators that describe a tenet, and their correlating components, which were also identified for the ASCD School Improvement Tool. We hope users will find the new format more user-friendly as you work with schools, districts and states to support a whole child approach to education. We believe it to be the most comprehensive way to help educators in the field understand the real scope of a whole child approach.                     Emerging Leaders Featured inASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Learn more about 2012 Emerging Leader Daina Lieberman and  2011 Emerging Leader Doug Paulson.     Florida ASCD Leader Post Featured in ASCD Inserviceand Core Connection ASCD asked some of our affiliate leaders to tell us how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has been going in their home states. In the first post of the series,Florida ASCD President and Emerging Leader alum Alina Davis writes about the challenges and successes that Florida has had with CCSS implementation. This post was also featured in the December 5 issue of ASCD’s Common Core e-newsletter, Core Connection.   Please Welcome Montclair State University to the ASCD Student Chapter Program ASCD is pleased to announce that Montclair State University has been accepted into our ASCD Student Chapter Program. The student leaders are enthusiastically planning recruitment events and other activities for the coming semester. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, go to www.ascd.org/chapters.     Congratulations! New Mexico ASCD Secretary Toni Hull is a 2012 Teaching Ambassador Fellow for the U.S. Department of Education. 2011 Emerging Leader Torian White was recently appointed as interim principal in his school district, and after this school year, the position will become permanent. White is also featured in the Annual Conference video series: listen to his story about an educator who made a difference in his life. 2009 OYEA Winner Bijal Damani was recently selected to become a Google Certified Teacher, and last month she received the DerozioAward for Education and Human Enrichment from the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE). Other News 2012 Emerging Leader Erica Ringelspaugh is currently blogging for Wisconsin ASCD. Check out her blog, “What Erica Knows.” Check out Iowa ASCD’s blog!       ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDgecommunity site. Please read, comment, and share! Solving the “Play” Problem, Disconnected Doesn’t Mean “Not Connected,” 2012 Emerging Leader Fred Ende  Cogito Ergo Sum, Should Students Live Someone Else’s Education?, Comprehensive Planning, Improvise, 2012 Emerging Leader Jason Ellingson We Need More Poetry in Social Studies, Build and Sustain a Successful AP Economics Program, SMART Goal for the Common Core, Tackling the Common Core, 2012 Emerging Leader Robert Zywicki Supporting New Principals (survey link included), Professional Interest Community Facilitator Amelia Hicks  Think Globally, Act Locally, 2012 Emerging Leader Steven Anderson An Introduction to the Concept of Complexity, 2012 Emerging Leader Kevin Goddard    ASCD Can Help Support Your Common Core Efforts Are you interested in having a session presenter or keynote speaker on Common Core implementation at your next event? ASCD has resources and assistance available to state affiliates that will help to inform your members and educators  about implementing the Common Core standards. ASCD’s recent reportFulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards: Moving from Adoption to Implementation to Sustainability illuminates activities educators at all levels can undertake to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards across the nation. The report and its implementation recommendations have already been successfully presented at events held by Utah ASCD, Ohio ASCD, and North Carolina ASCD. If you are interested in learning more about these opportunities, e-mail  Efrain Mercado, lead strategist for the Common Core State Standards, at both efrain.mercado@ascd.org andConstituentServices@ascd.org. A Progress Report on Teacher Evaluation Teacher quality is the most important in-school factor influencing student learning and achievement. Research shows that students with high-performing teachers can progress three times as fast as students with low-performing teachers and each student deserves access to highly effective teachers in every subject. In turn, all teachers deserve a fair and accurate assessment of their skills, how they perform in the classroom, and how they can improve. Teacher effectiveness is dependent on accurate and fair evaluations, based on multiple measures, including—but not solely based around—their students’ performance in the subjects they teach. If the ultimate goal of teacher evaluation is to improve student performance, what should evaluators look for? Read more on the Whole Child Blog. In November, we looked at the current teacher evaluation landscape. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Mike Blakeslee, deputy executive director and chief operating officer of the National Association for Music Education, a whole child partner organization and member of ASCD's College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness Coalition; Bryan Goodwin, vice president of communications at McREL, based in Denver, Colo.; and Cindy Weber, superintendent of Durand Area Schools in Durand, Mich. Have you signed up to receive the Whole Child Newsletter? Read this month's newsletter and visit the archive for more strategies, resources, and tools you can use to help ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. ASCD’s Educational Leadership also focused on fair and effective teacher evaluation in its November issue, featuring articles by Robert J. Marzano, Charlotte Danielson, Tony Frontier, Thomas R. Hoerr, Carol Ann Tomlinson, and other experts and practitioners. Topics, research, and commentary include peer review, classroom observation, value-added measures, school district examples from across the United States, and lessons from South Korea.   Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ·         New Professional Development Resources from ASCD Support Problem-Based Learning, Differentiated Instruction, and Common Core Implementation—ASCD announces the release of a series of new PD In Focus® videos, as well as two PD Online® courses. These new resources focus on supporting educators in implementing problem-based learning, differentiated instruction, and the Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release. ·         Thomas Armstrong Presents Strength-Based Model for Teaching Learners with Special Needs in New Book—ASCD is pleased to announce the release ofNeurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life by seasoned educator and best-selling author Thomas Armstrong. This new professional development book is available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Authors Headline 2013 Annual Conference Pre-Conference Institutes— ASCD announced the pre-conference session lineup for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, being held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill. The three-, two-, and one-day Pre-Conference Institutes will be held March 13–15 and offer intensive learning experiences on curriculum, instruction, assessment, and more. Read the full press release. ·         Atlanta Public Schools Select Digital Solutions from ASCD to Support Professional Development Goals—Atlanta Public Schools (APS), serving more than 51,000 students in the greater Atlanta, Ga., metro area, has become the latest school system to select digital solutions from ASCD to meet theirdistrictwide professional development goals. Read the full press release.   nonadult false L2L News: December 2012 text blog 238 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6487670 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-November-2012/blog/6457649/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Leader to Leader (L2L) News: November 2012 Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA).This institute is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill.  Speak out on sequestration.An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org.  Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.  Congratulations to the Newly Elected ASCD Leadership Following voting in the 2012 General Membership election this fall, ASCD members elected the following individuals to ASCD’s leadership: President-Elect:   Nancy Gibson, Illinois Board of Directors (two-year term):  Judy Zimmerman, Ohio Board of Directors (three-year terms):  Matt McClure, Arkansas and Pam Vogel, Iowa These individuals will begin their leadership terms at the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Please join us in congratulating them on their new ASCD leadership positions!   Diane Ravitch to Speak at ASCD’s Legislative Conference Diane Ravitch, the renowned education historian, author, and professor, will be the keynote speaker for ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) in Washington, D.C., January 27–29, 2013. Register for LILA to hear Ravitch’s provocative and unfiltered opinion about the current state of education reform. Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush and onetime supporter of the No Child Left Behind Act, has undergone a dramatic rethinking of school improvement strategies as she’s witnessed school choice and standardized test–based accountability in action. She’ll share her insights about the policy and communications challenges facing educators today and how those obstacles can be overcome to prepare students to be college-, career-, and citizenship-ready. She will also advise conference attendees on how they can build public support for their profession and achieve their education policy goals. LILA will provide you with the most up-to-date information on federal education policy; share what November’s election results could mean for educators; and help attendees become effective advocates for their students, peers, and schools. Register for this premier legislative conference today and access the conference agenda, as well as lodging and travel information.     ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   Congratulations to Bahamas ASCD, Our Newest ASCD Affiliate! Bahamas ASCD began as a Connected Community in 2008, and was recently approved by ASCD’s Board of Directors to become an affiliate. Please read Dr. Carter’s ASCD Inservice blog post “Join Me in Welcoming Bahamas ASCD.”   2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro Featured in New ASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Check out the first post featuring 2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro.   Please Welcome Huntingdon College to the ASCD Student Chapter Program ASCD is pleased to announce that Huntingdon College has been accepted into our ASCD Student Chapter Program. The student leaders are enthusiastically planning recruitment events and other activities for the coming semester. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, go to www.ascd.org/chapters.   Brad Kuntz Writes Last “In the Classroom” Column for Education Update Please join us in thanking 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winner Brad Kuntz for writing the monthly “In the Classroom” column for Education Update. If you haven’t had a chance to read them yet, check them out: Oct. 2012: Be Good to Yourself Sept. 2012: Create a Positive School Culture July 2012: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late May 2012: Engage Students by Embracing Technology April 2012: Help Build a Whole Child Community March 2012: Teach Students How to Be a Positive Influence Feb. 2012: Use Meaningful Community Projects to Build Academic Skills Jan. 2012: Stimulate Students’ Imaginations with Project-Based Learning Dec. 2011: Build Personal Relationships to Boost Students’ Self Esteem Nov. 2011: Engage Students in School Community   Emerging Leader Leads First #ASCDL2L Chat Earlier this week, 2012 Emerging Leader Eric Bernstein (@BernsteinUSC) led the first #ASCDL2L Twitter chat with several other ASCD Emerging Leaders. The topic of the chat was on the effect of the recent U.S. presidential election on education policies in the United States. Emerging Leaders will be leading future #ASCDL2L chats; the next one will take place this Tuesday, November 13, from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. EDT. Follow the #ASCDL2L hashtag or join the Leader to Leader group on ASCD EDge to learn about the future Twitter chats; the archive of this week’s Twitter chat is in the documents section of the Leader to Leader group.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! Life Long Learningby Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader 5 Questions for All Leaders  and Reflections on Being a Blogger by Stephen Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader 3 Ways Principals Can Teach Data-Driven Instruction by Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader The Positives of Protocols by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader Empowerment is Still Key by Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator The Carnegie Unit Conundrum  and Course Time to Competencies by Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ASCD Fall Conference Atlanta Day 1 and Day 2 by Matthew Cotton, 2012 Emerging Leader   Emerging Leader Featured in ASCD Express 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn is a school principal in a state that has fully implemented the Common Core State Standards. Her ASCD Express article, “Setting a Common Course,” shares tips to help others be instructional leaders in common core standards implementation. Please read and share her article! Other News: Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson recently presented on the topic of using common core mathematics standards with the UbD framework.  There is a link of the presentations on her website: http://www.drdickenson.com Watch a video of 2012 OYEA Winner and Arkansas ASCD leader Matt McClure telling his story for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference theme: “Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.”  ASCD Emerging Leader alum and affiliate leader Tony Frontier is the co-author of the article “Keeping Improvement in Mind” in this month’s issue of Educational Leadership. The November 2012 issue theme is “Teacher Evaluation: What’s Fair, What’s Effective?” and ASCD Members can find the article on page 10 of their print copy or read it online. Check out New Hampshire ASCD’s Fall 2012 e-newsletter (PDF).   Putting the Whole Child Approach Into Action This month, we added 100 new schools and communities to the ASCD Whole Child Example Map. Identified by an ASCD leader or Whole Child Partner organization, these school and community examples reflect a commitment to a whole child approach put into practice. Each example highlights whole child achievements and links to information about the school or community. Use our interactive map tool to find current examples of schools and communities putting the whole child approach into action in your hometown and around the world. A whole child approach to education ensures that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. We continue to seek examples from across the world of exemplary schools, districts, and communities that are using a whole child approach. Please review the criteria for inclusion in our Whole Child Examples Map on our online form, and submit an example for review.   New ASCD Publication Policy Points to Highlight Timely Education Topics ASCD’s newest policy resource, ASCD Policy Points, will be published every other month and will provide ASCD members, Educator Advocates, and the public with important information, data, and insights on timely education policy topics in an easy to use, easy to understand format (e.g. myths and facts, FAQs, and infographics). The inaugural issue of ASCD Policy Points, published in October, spotlighted the U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on education policy.   Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Urges All Educators to Stay Informed and Involved—With the election decided, it is crucial for educators to become involved to ensure education remains a top priority for the Obama administration and the 113th Congress. ASCD has a few great ways for educators to stay informed and help shape future education policy. Read the full press release. ASCD Releases Report on Common Core State Standards Implementation—ASCD has released a new report titled Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards: Moving from Adoption to Implementation to Sustainability illuminating activities educators and policymakers at all levels can undertake to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards across the nation. This free report can be found on the EduCore™ site, ASCD’s free repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the Common Core standards. Read the full press release. New, Free ASCD App for iPad Brings Valuable Professional Development Content to Educators Anywhere—ASCD has launched a new , free app for iPad that lets educators who purchase ASCD e-books easily access that content on their iPad. ASCD members can also use the app to access their members-only content such as Educational Leadership, Education Update and Policy Priorities. For ASCD premium online or select online members, the app will automatically sync their ASCD e-books. Read the full press release. ASCD Appoints Mary Catherine “MC” Desrosiers as New Chief of Program Development—ASCD has appointed Mary Catherine “MC” Desrosiers as the association’s new Chief Program Development Officer. In her new role, Desrosiers will lead and direct the association’s publishing, content acquisition and development, creative services, professional development, and conferences and institutes units. Read the full press release. GlobalScholar Renews Support for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—GlobalScholar, a provider of innovative education solutions, returns this year as a lead partner for ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show. From March 16 to 18, in Chicago, Ill., the association’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” will explore what committed educators are doing to support the success of each learner. Read the full press release.     ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Leader to Leader (L2L) News: November 2012 Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA).This institute is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill.  Speak out on sequestration.An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org.  Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.  Congratulations to the Newly Elected ASCD Leadership Following voting in the 2012 General Membership election this fall, ASCD members elected the following individuals to ASCD’s leadership: President-Elect:   Nancy Gibson, Illinois Board of Directors (two-year term):  Judy Zimmerman, Ohio Board of Directors (three-year terms):  Matt McClure, Arkansas and Pam Vogel, Iowa These individuals will begin their leadership terms at the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Please join us in congratulating them on their new ASCD leadership positions!   Diane Ravitch to Speak at ASCD’s Legislative Conference Diane Ravitch, the renowned education historian, author, and professor, will be the keynote speaker for ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) in Washington, D.C., January 27–29, 2013. Register for LILA to hear Ravitch’s provocative and unfiltered opinion about the current state of education reform. Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush and onetime supporter of the No Child Left Behind Act, has undergone a dramatic rethinking of school improvement strategies as she’s witnessed school choice and standardized test–based accountability in action. She’ll share her insights about the policy and communications challenges facing educators today and how those obstacles can be overcome to prepare students to be college-, career-, and citizenship-ready. She will also advise conference attendees on how they can build public support for their profession and achieve their education policy goals. LILA will provide you with the most up-to-date information on federal education policy; share what November’s election results could mean for educators; and help attendees become effective advocates for their students, peers, and schools. Register for this premier legislative conference today and access the conference agenda, as well as lodging and travel information.     ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   Congratulations to Bahamas ASCD, Our Newest ASCD Affiliate! Bahamas ASCD began as a Connected Community in 2008, and was recently approved by ASCD’s Board of Directors to become an affiliate. Please read Dr. Carter’s ASCD Inservice blog post “Join Me in Welcoming Bahamas ASCD.”   2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro Featured in New ASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Check out the first post featuring 2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro.   Please Welcome Huntingdon College to the ASCD Student Chapter Program ASCD is pleased to announce that Huntingdon College has been accepted into our ASCD Student Chapter Program. The student leaders are enthusiastically planning recruitment events and other activities for the coming semester. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, go to www.ascd.org/chapters.   Brad Kuntz Writes Last “In the Classroom” Column for Education Update Please join us in thanking 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winner Brad Kuntz for writing the monthly “In the Classroom” column for Education Update. If you haven’t had a chance to read them yet, check them out: Oct. 2012: Be Good to Yourself Sept. 2012: Create a Positive School Culture July 2012: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late May 2012: Engage Students by Embracing Technology April 2012: Help Build a Whole Child Community March 2012: Teach Students How to Be a Positive Influence Feb. 2012: Use Meaningful Community Projects to Build Academic Skills Jan. 2012: Stimulate Students’ Imaginations with Project-Based Learning Dec. 2011: Build Personal Relationships to Boost Students’ Self Esteem Nov. 2011: Engage Students in School Community   Emerging Leader Leads First #ASCDL2L Chat Earlier this week, 2012 Emerging Leader Eric Bernstein (@BernsteinUSC) led the first #ASCDL2L Twitter chat with several other ASCD Emerging Leaders. The topic of the chat was on the effect of the recent U.S. presidential election on education policies in the United States. Emerging Leaders will be leading future #ASCDL2L chats; the next one will take place this Tuesday, November 13, from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. EDT. Follow the #ASCDL2L hashtag or join the Leader to Leader group on ASCD EDge to learn about the future Twitter chats; the archive of this week’s Twitter chat is in the documents section of the Leader to Leader group.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! Life Long Learningby Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader 5 Questions for All Leaders  and Reflections on Being a Blogger by Stephen Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader 3 Ways Principals Can Teach Data-Driven Instruction by Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader The Positives of Protocols by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader Empowerment is Still Key by Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator The Carnegie Unit Conundrum  and Course Time to Competencies by Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ASCD Fall Conference Atlanta Day 1 and Day 2 by Matthew Cotton, 2012 Emerging Leader   Emerging Leader Featured in ASCD Express 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn is a school principal in a state that has fully implemented the Common Core State Standards. Her ASCD Express article, “Setting a Common Course,” shares tips to help others be instructional leaders in common core standards implementation. Please read and share her article! Other News: Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson recently presented on the topic of using common core mathematics standards with the UbD framework.  There is a link of the presentations on her website: http://www.drdickenson.com Watch a video of 2012 OYEA Winner and Arkansas ASCD leader Matt McClure telling his story for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference theme: “Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.”  ASCD Emerging Leader alum and affiliate leader Tony Frontier is the co-author of the article “Keeping Improvement in Mind” in this month’s issue of Educational Leadership. The November 2012 issue theme is “Teacher Evaluation: What’s Fair, What’s Effective?” and ASCD Members can find the article on page 10 of their print copy or read it online. Check out New Hampshire ASCD’s Fall 2012 e-newsletter (PDF).   Putting the Whole Child Approach Into Action This month, we added 100 new schools and communities to the ASCD Whole Child Example Map. Identified by an ASCD leader or Whole Child Partner organization, these school and community examples reflect a commitment to a whole child approach put into practice. Each example highlights whole child achievements and links to information about the school or community. Use our interactive map tool to find current examples of schools and communities putting the whole child approach into action in your hometown and around the world. A whole child approach to education ensures that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. We continue to seek examples from across the world of exemplary schools, districts, and communities that are using a whole child approach. Please review the criteria for inclusion in our Whole Child Examples Map on our online form, and submit an example for review.   New ASCD Publication Policy Points to Highlight Timely Education Topics ASCD’s newest policy resource, ASCD Policy Points, will be published every other month and will provide ASCD members, Educator Advocates, and the public with important information, data, and insights on timely education policy topics in an easy to use, easy to understand format (e.g. myths and facts, FAQs, and infographics). The inaugural issue of ASCD Policy Points, published in October, spotlighted the U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on education policy.   Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Urges All Educators to Stay Informed and Involved—With the election decided, it is crucial for educators to become involved to ensure education remains a top priority for the Obama administration and the 113th Congress. ASCD has a few great ways for educators to stay informed and help shape future education policy. Read the full press release. ASCD Releases Report on Common Core State Standards Implementation—ASCD has released a new report titled Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards: Moving from Adoption to Implementation to Sustainability illuminating activities educators and policymakers at all levels can undertake to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards across the nation. This free report can be found on the EduCore™ site, ASCD’s free repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the Common Core standards. Read the full press release. New, Free ASCD App for iPad Brings Valuable Professional Development Content to Educators Anywhere—ASCD has launched a new , free app for iPad that lets educators who purchase ASCD e-books easily access that content on their iPad. ASCD members can also use the app to access their members-only content such as Educational Leadership, Education Update and Policy Priorities. For ASCD premium online or select online members, the app will automatically sync their ASCD e-books. Read the full press release. ASCD Appoints Mary Catherine “MC” Desrosiers as New Chief of Program Development—ASCD has appointed Mary Catherine “MC” Desrosiers as the association’s new Chief Program Development Officer. In her new role, Desrosiers will lead and direct the association’s publishing, content acquisition and development, creative services, professional development, and conferences and institutes units. Read the full press release. GlobalScholar Renews Support for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—GlobalScholar, a provider of innovative education solutions, returns this year as a lead partner for ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show. From March 16 to 18, in Chicago, Ill., the association’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” will explore what committed educators are doing to support the success of each learner. Read the full press release.     Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:05:51 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-November-2012/blog/6457649/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-11-08T22:05:51Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Leader to Leader (L2L) News: November 2012 Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA).This institute is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill.  Speak out on sequestration.An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org.  Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.  Congratulations to the Newly Elected ASCD Leadership Following voting in the 2012 General Membership election this fall, ASCD members elected the following individuals to ASCD’s leadership: President-Elect:   Nancy Gibson, Illinois Board of Directors (two-year term):  Judy Zimmerman, Ohio Board of Directors (three-year terms):  Matt McClure, Arkansas and Pam Vogel, Iowa These individuals will begin their leadership terms at the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Please join us in congratulating them on their new ASCD leadership positions!   Diane Ravitch to Speak at ASCD’s Legislative Conference Diane Ravitch, the renowned education historian, author, and professor, will be the keynote speaker for ASCD’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) in Washington, D.C., January 27–29, 2013. Register for LILA to hear Ravitch’s provocative and unfiltered opinion about the current state of education reform. Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush and onetime supporter of the No Child Left Behind Act, has undergone a dramatic rethinking of school improvement strategies as she’s witnessed school choice and standardized test–based accountability in action. She’ll share her insights about the policy and communications challenges facing educators today and how those obstacles can be overcome to prepare students to be college-, career-, and citizenship-ready. She will also advise conference attendees on how they can build public support for their profession and achieve their education policy goals. LILA will provide you with the most up-to-date information on federal education policy; share what November’s election results could mean for educators; and help attendees become effective advocates for their students, peers, and schools. Register for this premier legislative conference today and access the conference agenda, as well as lodging and travel information.     ASCD Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   Congratulations to Bahamas ASCD, Our Newest ASCD Affiliate! Bahamas ASCD began as a Connected Community in 2008, and was recently approved by ASCD’s Board of Directors to become an affiliate. Please read Dr. Carter’s ASCD Inservice blog post “Join Me in Welcoming Bahamas ASCD.”   2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro Featured in New ASCD Inservice Blog Series In an effort to highlight more educator voices on the ASCD blog, we recently initiated a series of Q&A sessions featuring ASCD Emerging Leaders. Check out the first post featuring 2011 Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro.   Please Welcome Huntingdon College to the ASCD Student Chapter Program ASCD is pleased to announce that Huntingdon College has been accepted into our ASCD Student Chapter Program. The student leaders are enthusiastically planning recruitment events and other activities for the coming semester. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, go to www.ascd.org/chapters.   Brad Kuntz Writes Last “In the Classroom” Column for Education Update Please join us in thanking 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winner Brad Kuntz for writing the monthly “In the Classroom” column for Education Update. If you haven’t had a chance to read them yet, check them out: Oct. 2012: Be Good to Yourself Sept. 2012: Create a Positive School Culture July 2012: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late May 2012: Engage Students by Embracing Technology April 2012: Help Build a Whole Child Community March 2012: Teach Students How to Be a Positive Influence Feb. 2012: Use Meaningful Community Projects to Build Academic Skills Jan. 2012: Stimulate Students’ Imaginations with Project-Based Learning Dec. 2011: Build Personal Relationships to Boost Students’ Self Esteem Nov. 2011: Engage Students in School Community   Emerging Leader Leads First #ASCDL2L Chat Earlier this week, 2012 Emerging Leader Eric Bernstein (@BernsteinUSC) led the first #ASCDL2L Twitter chat with several other ASCD Emerging Leaders. The topic of the chat was on the effect of the recent U.S. presidential election on education policies in the United States. Emerging Leaders will be leading future #ASCDL2L chats; the next one will take place this Tuesday, November 13, from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. EDT. Follow the #ASCDL2L hashtag or join the Leader to Leader group on ASCD EDge to learn about the future Twitter chats; the archive of this week’s Twitter chat is in the documents section of the Leader to Leader group.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! Life Long Learningby Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader 5 Questions for All Leaders  and Reflections on Being a Blogger by Stephen Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader 3 Ways Principals Can Teach Data-Driven Instruction by Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader The Positives of Protocols by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader Empowerment is Still Key by Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator The Carnegie Unit Conundrum  and Course Time to Competencies by Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ASCD Fall Conference Atlanta Day 1 and Day 2 by Matthew Cotton, 2012 Emerging Leader   Emerging Leader Featured in ASCD Express 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn is a school principal in a state that has fully implemented the Common Core State Standards. Her ASCD Express article, “Setting a Common Course,” shares tips to help others be instructional leaders in common core standards implementation. Please read and share her article! Other News: Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson recently presented on the topic of using common core mathematics standards with the UbD framework.  There is a link of the presentations on her website: http://www.drdickenson.com Watch a video of 2012 OYEA Winner and Arkansas ASCD leader Matt McClure telling his story for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference theme: “Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.”  ASCD Emerging Leader alum and affiliate leader Tony Frontier is the co-author of the article “Keeping Improvement in Mind” in this month’s issue of Educational Leadership. The November 2012 issue theme is “Teacher Evaluation: What’s Fair, What’s Effective?” and ASCD Members can find the article on page 10 of their print copy or read it online. Check out New Hampshire ASCD’s Fall 2012 e-newsletter (PDF).   Putting the Whole Child Approach Into Action This month, we added 100 new schools and communities to the ASCD Whole Child Example Map. Identified by an ASCD leader or Whole Child Partner organization, these school and community examples reflect a commitment to a whole child approach put into practice. Each example highlights whole child achievements and links to information about the school or community. Use our interactive map tool to find current examples of schools and communities putting the whole child approach into action in your hometown and around the world. A whole child approach to education ensures that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. We continue to seek examples from across the world of exemplary schools, districts, and communities that are using a whole child approach. Please review the criteria for inclusion in our Whole Child Examples Map on our online form, and submit an example for review.   New ASCD Publication Policy Points to Highlight Timely Education Topics ASCD’s newest policy resource, ASCD Policy Points, will be published every other month and will provide ASCD members, Educator Advocates, and the public with important information, data, and insights on timely education policy topics in an easy to use, easy to understand format (e.g. myths and facts, FAQs, and infographics). The inaugural issue of ASCD Policy Points, published in October, spotlighted the U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on education policy.   Something to Talk About Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Urges All Educators to Stay Informed and Involved—With the election decided, it is crucial for educators to become involved to ensure education remains a top priority for the Obama administration and the 113th Congress. ASCD has a few great ways for educators to stay informed and help shape future education policy. Read the full press release. ASCD Releases Report on Common Core State Standards Implementation—ASCD has released a new report titled Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards: Moving from Adoption to Implementation to Sustainability illuminating activities educators and policymakers at all levels can undertake to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards across the nation. This free report can be found on the EduCore™ site, ASCD’s free repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the Common Core standards. Read the full press release. New, Free ASCD App for iPad Brings Valuable Professional Development Content to Educators Anywhere—ASCD has launched a new , free app for iPad that lets educators who purchase ASCD e-books easily access that content on their iPad. ASCD members can also use the app to access their members-only content such as Educational Leadership, Education Update and Policy Priorities. For ASCD premium online or select online members, the app will automatically sync their ASCD e-books. Read the full press release. ASCD Appoints Mary Catherine “MC” Desrosiers as New Chief of Program Development—ASCD has appointed Mary Catherine “MC” Desrosiers as the association’s new Chief Program Development Officer. In her new role, Desrosiers will lead and direct the association’s publishing, content acquisition and development, creative services, professional development, and conferences and institutes units. Read the full press release. GlobalScholar Renews Support for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—GlobalScholar, a provider of innovative education solutions, returns this year as a lead partner for ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show. From March 16 to 18, in Chicago, Ill., the association’s Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.,” will explore what committed educators are doing to support the success of each learner. Read the full press release.     nonadult false L2L News: November 2012 text blog 379 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6457649 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-October-2012/blog/6396017/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Vote in ASCD’s general membership election.Voting ends October 15. Make your voice heard! More information about voting is below. Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA).This institute is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Speak out on sequestration.An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill welcomes you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.   Vote in ASCD’s 2012 General Membership Election ASCD’s general membership election closes October 15, 2012. You can help determine the association’s leadership by voting for President-Elect and members of the Board of Directors. Successful candidates will take office at the conclusion of ASCD’s Annual Conference on March 18, 2013. The election is online only. Hereis how to vote online: Go to www.ascd.org/vote. You will need to log in using your ASCD username, e-mail address, or member ID and password. If you are eligible to vote in this year’s election, click on the “Vote Now” button to connect to our secure online election system. If you don’t have your log-in information or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD(2723) (International/DC callers: dial 703-578-9600) and then press 1, or send an e-mail to member@ascd.org. Candidates’ photos and biographies are included with the online ballot and also appeared in the September issue of Education Update. Have questions? Not every member has voting privileges. You are ineligible to vote if your membership was unpaid as of August 16, 2012, or you hold a complimentary membership. Please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org or by phone (1-800-933-2723 or 1-703-575-5601) with any questions.   Spread the Word About the School Improvement Tool Please feel free to download and print this School Improvement Tool Buck Slip (PDF) to help spread the word about the ASCD School Improvement Tool.   ASCD Student Chapters: They’re Learning to Teach, Now Learning to Lead ASCD is proud to announce great new resources for ASCD student chapters, including updated web pages for current chapters and an infographic on how to start a student chapter of your own. And for the first time, we’re offering a student discount for the ASCD Fall Conference; students can access the discounted rate by selecting the student registration rate at checkout—$139 for members and $159 for nonmembers. Please use these resources and discounts to spread the word about ASCD student chapters in your community! Contact constituentservices@ascd.org if you have any questions.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! Learning is Everywhere, Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader  Generating Genius, Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader  What We Talk About When We Talk About Gaps, Jason Flom, 2010 Emerging Leader  Do As I Say, Not As I Do, Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator  Adding Meaning to Your Meetings, Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader  The Student Creates the Teacher, Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader  Three Quick Tips for Creating a Collaborative Culture, Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader             Other News Did you catch a familiar name in the “Perspectives” column from this month’s Educational Leadership issue themed “Students Who Challenge Us”? Marge Scherer shares 2010 OYEA winner Brian Nichols’ story about two teachers who made all the difference in his life: one for the better, one for the worse. Read it on page 7 of your copy of EL or check it out online.  Washington ASCD recently published the fall issue their e-newsletter, Curriculum in Context using issuu, a free online e-publishing software. This informative issue is themed “Upholding Common Standards: Adopting and Implementing Common Core.” Please read and share this great resource with other educators who may be interested.  2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Michael DiCaprio recently wrote an article for ASCD’s Core Connection newsletter. Please read and share his piece, “The Building Leader and the Common Core.” Please read, share, and comment on 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn’s first Whole Child blog post, “Engaging the Whole Community to Support Positive Bus Behavior.”   Something to Talk About By Kevin Scott, ASCD Constituent Services Director: What Are You Watching? and BTSN By Walter McKenzie, ASCD Constituent Services Director: Rich, Real World Performance-Based Learning, The New Minimalism, An Education Engine By Tom Whitby: PD: How do Educators Get to Know What They Don’t Know?, Does Being Connected Help in Being Recognized? , and The Six “P’s” of Education Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Introduces Three New PD Online® Courses for the Common Core and Differentiated Instruction—Since 1996, ASCD has provided innovative and award-winning PD Online courses to educators across the world. PD Online features more than 80 courses focusing on a broad array of important topics and incorporates multimedia and high-quality digital content that fits the needs of almost any type and size of learning group, ranging from individual learners to statewide deployments and integration with university programs. Read the full press release. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Selects ASCD to Support Professional Development Goals—Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), winner of the 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education, recently selected ASCD as its new, district-wide professional development partner. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces November 2012 Professional Development Institute Series in Myrtle Beach— ASCD announces a series of two- and three-day professional development institutes in Myrtle Beach, S.C., this November. Read the full press release. Registration Now Open for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—ASCD is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the much-anticipated 68th ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show. Built on the theme “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.," the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., March 16–18, and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release.     ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Vote in ASCD’s general membership election.Voting ends October 15. Make your voice heard! More information about voting is below. Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA).This institute is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Speak out on sequestration.An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill welcomes you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.   Vote in ASCD’s 2012 General Membership Election ASCD’s general membership election closes October 15, 2012. You can help determine the association’s leadership by voting for President-Elect and members of the Board of Directors. Successful candidates will take office at the conclusion of ASCD’s Annual Conference on March 18, 2013. The election is online only. Hereis how to vote online: Go to www.ascd.org/vote. You will need to log in using your ASCD username, e-mail address, or member ID and password. If you are eligible to vote in this year’s election, click on the “Vote Now” button to connect to our secure online election system. If you don’t have your log-in information or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD(2723) (International/DC callers: dial 703-578-9600) and then press 1, or send an e-mail to member@ascd.org. Candidates’ photos and biographies are included with the online ballot and also appeared in the September issue of Education Update. Have questions? Not every member has voting privileges. You are ineligible to vote if your membership was unpaid as of August 16, 2012, or you hold a complimentary membership. Please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org or by phone (1-800-933-2723 or 1-703-575-5601) with any questions.   Spread the Word About the School Improvement Tool Please feel free to download and print this School Improvement Tool Buck Slip (PDF) to help spread the word about the ASCD School Improvement Tool.   ASCD Student Chapters: They’re Learning to Teach, Now Learning to Lead ASCD is proud to announce great new resources for ASCD student chapters, including updated web pages for current chapters and an infographic on how to start a student chapter of your own. And for the first time, we’re offering a student discount for the ASCD Fall Conference; students can access the discounted rate by selecting the student registration rate at checkout—$139 for members and $159 for nonmembers. Please use these resources and discounts to spread the word about ASCD student chapters in your community! Contact constituentservices@ascd.org if you have any questions.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! Learning is Everywhere, Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader  Generating Genius, Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader  What We Talk About When We Talk About Gaps, Jason Flom, 2010 Emerging Leader  Do As I Say, Not As I Do, Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator  Adding Meaning to Your Meetings, Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader  The Student Creates the Teacher, Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader  Three Quick Tips for Creating a Collaborative Culture, Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader             Other News Did you catch a familiar name in the “Perspectives” column from this month’s Educational Leadership issue themed “Students Who Challenge Us”? Marge Scherer shares 2010 OYEA winner Brian Nichols’ story about two teachers who made all the difference in his life: one for the better, one for the worse. Read it on page 7 of your copy of EL or check it out online.  Washington ASCD recently published the fall issue their e-newsletter, Curriculum in Context using issuu, a free online e-publishing software. This informative issue is themed “Upholding Common Standards: Adopting and Implementing Common Core.” Please read and share this great resource with other educators who may be interested.  2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Michael DiCaprio recently wrote an article for ASCD’s Core Connection newsletter. Please read and share his piece, “The Building Leader and the Common Core.” Please read, share, and comment on 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn’s first Whole Child blog post, “Engaging the Whole Community to Support Positive Bus Behavior.”   Something to Talk About By Kevin Scott, ASCD Constituent Services Director: What Are You Watching? and BTSN By Walter McKenzie, ASCD Constituent Services Director: Rich, Real World Performance-Based Learning, The New Minimalism, An Education Engine By Tom Whitby: PD: How do Educators Get to Know What They Don’t Know?, Does Being Connected Help in Being Recognized? , and The Six “P’s” of Education Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Introduces Three New PD Online® Courses for the Common Core and Differentiated Instruction—Since 1996, ASCD has provided innovative and award-winning PD Online courses to educators across the world. PD Online features more than 80 courses focusing on a broad array of important topics and incorporates multimedia and high-quality digital content that fits the needs of almost any type and size of learning group, ranging from individual learners to statewide deployments and integration with university programs. Read the full press release. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Selects ASCD to Support Professional Development Goals—Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), winner of the 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education, recently selected ASCD as its new, district-wide professional development partner. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces November 2012 Professional Development Institute Series in Myrtle Beach— ASCD announces a series of two- and three-day professional development institutes in Myrtle Beach, S.C., this November. Read the full press release. Registration Now Open for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—ASCD is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the much-anticipated 68th ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show. Built on the theme “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.," the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., March 16–18, and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release.     Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:15:46 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-October-2012/blog/6396017/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-10-12T19:15:46Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Vote in ASCD’s general membership election.Voting ends October 15. Make your voice heard! More information about voting is below. Register now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA).This institute is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Speak out on sequestration.An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million U.S. students and threaten 90,000 U.S. educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Register now for ASCD’s Annual Conference.ASCD President Debra Hill welcomes you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, Ill., March 16–18.   Vote in ASCD’s 2012 General Membership Election ASCD’s general membership election closes October 15, 2012. You can help determine the association’s leadership by voting for President-Elect and members of the Board of Directors. Successful candidates will take office at the conclusion of ASCD’s Annual Conference on March 18, 2013. The election is online only. Hereis how to vote online: Go to www.ascd.org/vote. You will need to log in using your ASCD username, e-mail address, or member ID and password. If you are eligible to vote in this year’s election, click on the “Vote Now” button to connect to our secure online election system. If you don’t have your log-in information or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD(2723) (International/DC callers: dial 703-578-9600) and then press 1, or send an e-mail to member@ascd.org. Candidates’ photos and biographies are included with the online ballot and also appeared in the September issue of Education Update. Have questions? Not every member has voting privileges. You are ineligible to vote if your membership was unpaid as of August 16, 2012, or you hold a complimentary membership. Please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org or by phone (1-800-933-2723 or 1-703-575-5601) with any questions.   Spread the Word About the School Improvement Tool Please feel free to download and print this School Improvement Tool Buck Slip (PDF) to help spread the word about the ASCD School Improvement Tool.   ASCD Student Chapters: They’re Learning to Teach, Now Learning to Lead ASCD is proud to announce great new resources for ASCD student chapters, including updated web pages for current chapters and an infographic on how to start a student chapter of your own. And for the first time, we’re offering a student discount for the ASCD Fall Conference; students can access the discounted rate by selecting the student registration rate at checkout—$139 for members and $159 for nonmembers. Please use these resources and discounts to spread the word about ASCD student chapters in your community! Contact constituentservices@ascd.org if you have any questions.   ASCD Leaders on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! Learning is Everywhere, Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader  Generating Genius, Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader  What We Talk About When We Talk About Gaps, Jason Flom, 2010 Emerging Leader  Do As I Say, Not As I Do, Mamzelle Adolphine, Professional Interest Community Facilitator  Adding Meaning to Your Meetings, Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader  The Student Creates the Teacher, Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader  Three Quick Tips for Creating a Collaborative Culture, Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader             Other News Did you catch a familiar name in the “Perspectives” column from this month’s Educational Leadership issue themed “Students Who Challenge Us”? Marge Scherer shares 2010 OYEA winner Brian Nichols’ story about two teachers who made all the difference in his life: one for the better, one for the worse. Read it on page 7 of your copy of EL or check it out online.  Washington ASCD recently published the fall issue their e-newsletter, Curriculum in Context using issuu, a free online e-publishing software. This informative issue is themed “Upholding Common Standards: Adopting and Implementing Common Core.” Please read and share this great resource with other educators who may be interested.  2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Michael DiCaprio recently wrote an article for ASCD’s Core Connection newsletter. Please read and share his piece, “The Building Leader and the Common Core.” Please read, share, and comment on 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Jessica Bohn’s first Whole Child blog post, “Engaging the Whole Community to Support Positive Bus Behavior.”   Something to Talk About By Kevin Scott, ASCD Constituent Services Director: What Are You Watching? and BTSN By Walter McKenzie, ASCD Constituent Services Director: Rich, Real World Performance-Based Learning, The New Minimalism, An Education Engine By Tom Whitby: PD: How do Educators Get to Know What They Don’t Know?, Does Being Connected Help in Being Recognized? , and The Six “P’s” of Education Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Mostclicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief   Association News ASCD Introduces Three New PD Online® Courses for the Common Core and Differentiated Instruction—Since 1996, ASCD has provided innovative and award-winning PD Online courses to educators across the world. PD Online features more than 80 courses focusing on a broad array of important topics and incorporates multimedia and high-quality digital content that fits the needs of almost any type and size of learning group, ranging from individual learners to statewide deployments and integration with university programs. Read the full press release. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Selects ASCD to Support Professional Development Goals—Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), winner of the 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education, recently selected ASCD as its new, district-wide professional development partner. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces November 2012 Professional Development Institute Series in Myrtle Beach— ASCD announces a series of two- and three-day professional development institutes in Myrtle Beach, S.C., this November. Read the full press release. Registration Now Open for ASCD’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—ASCD is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the much-anticipated 68th ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show. Built on the theme “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future.," the Annual Conference and Exhibit Show will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., March 16–18, and will inform, engage, help, and challenge educators from across the globe to better support student success. Read the full press release.     nonadult false L2L News: October 2012 text blog 318 10 5.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6396017 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-September-2012/blog/6339477/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üNominate a school for the Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award by September 30. Nomination is open exclusively to ASCD leaders; e-mail wholechild@ascd.org for the nomination form and more information. üVote in ASCD’s general membership election. Voting ends October 15. Make your voice heard! More information about voting is available below. üRegister now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA). This conference is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. More information about the institute is available below. üSpeak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD President Debra Hill Welcomes you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, IL, March 16-18.   Vote in ASCD’s 2012 General Membership Election ASCD's General Membership Election is open from September 1 through October 15, 2012. You can help determine the association's leadership by voting for President-Elect and members of the Board of Directors. Successful candidates will take office at the conclusion of ASCD's Annual Conference on March 18, 2013. The election is online-only. Here's how to vote online: go to www.ascd.org/vote. You will need to log in using your ASCD username, e-mail address, or member ID and password. If you are eligible to vote in this year's election, click on the Vote Now button to connect to our secure online election system. If you don't have your log-in information or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) and then press 1, or send an e-mail to member@ascd.org. Candidates’ photos and biographical information are included with the online ballot and will also appear in the September issue of Education Update. Have questions? Not every member has voting privileges. You are ineligible to vote if your membership was unpaid as of August 16, 2012, or you hold a complimentary membership. Please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org or phone (1-800-933-2723 or 1-703-575-5601) with any questions.   Register Today for ASCD’s Legislative Conference!   What will the presidential election and the new Congress mean for education in 2013? How will policy decisions related to the Common Core State Standards, educator evaluation systems, and education funding affect what’s happening in your districts, schools, and classrooms? ASCD’s 2013 Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) will address these and other timely topics that influence your day-to-day work as an educator. Register now for an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill.   The conference, to be held January 27–29, 2013, at the Westin Georgetown Hotel in Washington, D.C., will also feature ·         Sessions with Capitol Hill and U.S. Department of Education insiders who will share their perspectives on the fate of the No Child Left Behind Act. ·         The introduction of ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda, which will outline the organization’s policy goals and vision for the coming year. ·         A Capitol Hill boot camp featuring video vignettes that will address the dos and don’ts of conducting meetings with your legislators. No matter your level of education policy and advocacy expertise, LILA offers something for you. Emerging leaders new to advocacy will get easy tips to apply throughout the year. Seasoned affiliate leaders will learn how to maximize their influence and deepen their relationships with federal policymakers. Access the conference agenda and registration and travel information. Questions? Contact ASCD’s policy team at policy@ascd.org.   ASCD Student Chapters: They’re Learning to Teach, Now Learning to Lead ASCD is proud to announce great new resources for ASCD Student Chapters, including an infographic on how to start a student chapter, a video on why ASCD student chapters are beneficial, and updated web pages for current student chapters. Also, for the first time, a student discount is available for the ASCD Fall Conference; students can access the discounted rate by selecting the student registration rate at checkout ($139 for members, $159 for non-members). Please use these resources to spread the word about ASCD Student Chapters in your community! Contact constituentservices@ascd.org if you have any questions.   ASCD Emerging Leaders Sound Off on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! ·         Questions We All Should Ask by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Five Things Principals Should Focus on First; Blunders Can Lead to Breakthroughs; Prioritizing the Work; and New Beginnings and Where to Begin by Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         21st Century Connected Educator by Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Five Top Resources for Aligning Your Social Studies Curricula to the Common Core by Robert Zywicki, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Not a Disadvantage by Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         The Good News about Giving Bad News and Is Your PLN Truly a PLN? by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader Also, be sure to check out 2012 Emerging Leader Amy Fowler Murphy’s first blog post Be Prepared to Let Go to Grow.   Congratulations! 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Matthew Cotton gave a paper at the ISME (International Society of Music Education) on Music in Charter Schools at the 2012 World Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece this last July.  2010ASCD Emerging Leader Ayanna Cooper recently accepted a position as a Senior Professional Development Consultant with World Class Instructional Design & Assessment (WIDA). She provides nationwide professional development to consortium members on assessing English Language Learners. Read her bio and her articles on professional development and Common Core State Standards. 2012 Emerging Leader Curtis Pelham was promoted last month to the assistant principal position at Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Charleston, SC.  Fred Ende’s acceptance to the ASCD Emerging Leader class of 2012 was recently featured on lohud.com.  OYEA Honoree Maureen Connolly recently wrote a great article for ASCD’s Common Core newsletter, Core Connection. Read her article on the Common Core and Service Learning. OYEA Honoree and Emerging Leader Marnie Hazelton was recently appointed Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education at Roosevelt Union Free School District in New York. Other News The Northeast ASCD Affiliate Conference themed “Learning and Leading: Transformation Matters,” takes place November 29–December 1, 2012, in Boston, Mass.  Check out ASCD Constituent Services Director Kevin Scott’s blog postsDay 1 and 9/12 on ASCD EDge, where he explores the education experience through the eyes of his children.  ASCD Constituent Services Director Walter McKenzie recently guest posted for SmartBlog on What does a 21st Century Organization Look Like? The Pennsylvania ASCD Annual Conference themed “Power Up: New Perspectives” takes place November 18–20 in Hershey, Penn.   OYEA Winner’s School Sustains Significant Fire Damage Last weekend, a three alarm fire ravaged the Hoboken Charter School, where 2007 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Deirdra Grode is currently serving as Principal. According to the school website, classes have been moved to a new facility while repairs are made to the severely damaged school building. Updates are available on the school website and Facebook. Our best wishes and support are with Deirdra and her school during this difficult time.   Help Stop Sequestration! Members of Congress returned to their Capitol Hill offices in Washington, D.C., this week. Contact them today to help ensure that stopping sequestration—the 8.4 percent across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending—is at the top of their agendas. Unless Congress repeals sequestration, federal education spending will be cut by about $4.1 billion beginning as early as January 2013. In addition, ASCD's policy team wants your stories about how sequestration is affecting (or will affect) you, your schools, and your school districts. Please e-mail your stories to policy@ascd.org. We will share them with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of our effort to urge Congress to repeal sequestration. Thank you for taking the time to reach out to your legislators about this important topic.   Sign Up for ASCD’s Whole Child Down Under Webinar Series This three-part series, presented by Australian educator and ASCD Director of Whole Child Programs Sean Slade, aims to further engage ASCD audiences in the work of ASCD and its Whole Child Initiative, which seeks to ensure that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The Down Under webinar series* runs from late September through the end of October and will outline a whole child approach to education through the role of the principal, school improvement, and alignment of health and education and how it links to current debates in Australia regarding the National Curriculum, findings from the Gonski Report (PDF), and the value of a well-rounded education. Learn more and register here.* Please note the series sessions are conveniently timed for Australian residents.   Something to Talk About Seven Tips for Aligning Assignments to Common Core Does Flipping Your Classroom Increase Homework Time? Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.       Association News ·         ASCD Announces Additional Common Core State Standards Institutes for Fall 2012 and Winter 2013—ASCD announces additional two-day and one-day Common Core Institutes for fall 2012 and winter 2013.These new institutes are part of the association’s ongoing effort to support educators at all levels nationwide as they implement the Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release. Building Assignments that Help Students Meet Standards the Focus of a New ASCD Book —ASCD has released Assignments Matter: Making the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards, written by seasoned teacher coach and curriculum design expert Eleanor Dougherty. This new professional development resource for educators is now available in e-book formats and in paperback. Read the full press release. ASCD Introduces Enhancements to Premier Professional Development Tool for Educators—ASCD recently introduced version 2.0 of its award-winning PD In Focus® online professional development tool. Based on research and user feedback, the enhancements in version 2.0 help teachers and administrators better meet their personal and systemic professional development goals. Read the full press release. ASCD Receives Three Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative—ASCD has been awarded three Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative. The Green Globes designation recognizes ASCD’s commitment to maintaining a sustainable building. Read the full press release. ASCD Handbook Translates Child Development Research into Effective Classroom Actions—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Understanding How Young Children Learn: Bringing the Science of Child Development to the Classroom by prominent cognitive psychology and child development expert Wendy L. Ostroff. This publication is now available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Free Digital Common Core Implementation Tool, Announces Fall Common Core Webinar Series—ASCD introduced the new, free EduCore™ digital tool for educators implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in both mathematics and literacy. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the EduCore tool is a repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the CCSS. Read the full press release. International Education Association Announces Free Webinars for Australian Educators—ASCD announced a free webinar series for Australian educators—the Whole Child Down Under Webinar Series. The aim of the series is to further engage Australian audiences in the work of ASCD and the Whole Child Initiative, which aims to ensure that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Free Online Needs Assessment and School Improvement Tool—ASCD has unveiled the free online ASCD School Improvement Tool, which is based on a whole child approach to education. Read the full press release.   ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üNominate a school for the Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award by September 30. Nomination is open exclusively to ASCD leaders; e-mail wholechild@ascd.org for the nomination form and more information. üVote in ASCD’s general membership election. Voting ends October 15. Make your voice heard! More information about voting is available below. üRegister now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA). This conference is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. More information about the institute is available below. üSpeak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD President Debra Hill Welcomes you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, IL, March 16-18.   Vote in ASCD’s 2012 General Membership Election ASCD's General Membership Election is open from September 1 through October 15, 2012. You can help determine the association's leadership by voting for President-Elect and members of the Board of Directors. Successful candidates will take office at the conclusion of ASCD's Annual Conference on March 18, 2013. The election is online-only. Here's how to vote online: go to www.ascd.org/vote. You will need to log in using your ASCD username, e-mail address, or member ID and password. If you are eligible to vote in this year's election, click on the Vote Now button to connect to our secure online election system. If you don't have your log-in information or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) and then press 1, or send an e-mail to member@ascd.org. Candidates’ photos and biographical information are included with the online ballot and will also appear in the September issue of Education Update. Have questions? Not every member has voting privileges. You are ineligible to vote if your membership was unpaid as of August 16, 2012, or you hold a complimentary membership. Please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org or phone (1-800-933-2723 or 1-703-575-5601) with any questions.   Register Today for ASCD’s Legislative Conference!   What will the presidential election and the new Congress mean for education in 2013? How will policy decisions related to the Common Core State Standards, educator evaluation systems, and education funding affect what’s happening in your districts, schools, and classrooms? ASCD’s 2013 Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) will address these and other timely topics that influence your day-to-day work as an educator. Register now for an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill.   The conference, to be held January 27–29, 2013, at the Westin Georgetown Hotel in Washington, D.C., will also feature ·         Sessions with Capitol Hill and U.S. Department of Education insiders who will share their perspectives on the fate of the No Child Left Behind Act. ·         The introduction of ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda, which will outline the organization’s policy goals and vision for the coming year. ·         A Capitol Hill boot camp featuring video vignettes that will address the dos and don’ts of conducting meetings with your legislators. No matter your level of education policy and advocacy expertise, LILA offers something for you. Emerging leaders new to advocacy will get easy tips to apply throughout the year. Seasoned affiliate leaders will learn how to maximize their influence and deepen their relationships with federal policymakers. Access the conference agenda and registration and travel information. Questions? Contact ASCD’s policy team at policy@ascd.org.   ASCD Student Chapters: They’re Learning to Teach, Now Learning to Lead ASCD is proud to announce great new resources for ASCD Student Chapters, including an infographic on how to start a student chapter, a video on why ASCD student chapters are beneficial, and updated web pages for current student chapters. Also, for the first time, a student discount is available for the ASCD Fall Conference; students can access the discounted rate by selecting the student registration rate at checkout ($139 for members, $159 for non-members). Please use these resources to spread the word about ASCD Student Chapters in your community! Contact constituentservices@ascd.org if you have any questions.   ASCD Emerging Leaders Sound Off on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! ·         Questions We All Should Ask by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Five Things Principals Should Focus on First; Blunders Can Lead to Breakthroughs; Prioritizing the Work; and New Beginnings and Where to Begin by Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         21st Century Connected Educator by Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Five Top Resources for Aligning Your Social Studies Curricula to the Common Core by Robert Zywicki, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Not a Disadvantage by Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         The Good News about Giving Bad News and Is Your PLN Truly a PLN? by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader Also, be sure to check out 2012 Emerging Leader Amy Fowler Murphy’s first blog post Be Prepared to Let Go to Grow.   Congratulations! 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Matthew Cotton gave a paper at the ISME (International Society of Music Education) on Music in Charter Schools at the 2012 World Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece this last July.  2010ASCD Emerging Leader Ayanna Cooper recently accepted a position as a Senior Professional Development Consultant with World Class Instructional Design & Assessment (WIDA). She provides nationwide professional development to consortium members on assessing English Language Learners. Read her bio and her articles on professional development and Common Core State Standards. 2012 Emerging Leader Curtis Pelham was promoted last month to the assistant principal position at Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Charleston, SC.  Fred Ende’s acceptance to the ASCD Emerging Leader class of 2012 was recently featured on lohud.com.  OYEA Honoree Maureen Connolly recently wrote a great article for ASCD’s Common Core newsletter, Core Connection. Read her article on the Common Core and Service Learning. OYEA Honoree and Emerging Leader Marnie Hazelton was recently appointed Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education at Roosevelt Union Free School District in New York. Other News The Northeast ASCD Affiliate Conference themed “Learning and Leading: Transformation Matters,” takes place November 29–December 1, 2012, in Boston, Mass.  Check out ASCD Constituent Services Director Kevin Scott’s blog postsDay 1 and 9/12 on ASCD EDge, where he explores the education experience through the eyes of his children.  ASCD Constituent Services Director Walter McKenzie recently guest posted for SmartBlog on What does a 21st Century Organization Look Like? The Pennsylvania ASCD Annual Conference themed “Power Up: New Perspectives” takes place November 18–20 in Hershey, Penn.   OYEA Winner’s School Sustains Significant Fire Damage Last weekend, a three alarm fire ravaged the Hoboken Charter School, where 2007 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Deirdra Grode is currently serving as Principal. According to the school website, classes have been moved to a new facility while repairs are made to the severely damaged school building. Updates are available on the school website and Facebook. Our best wishes and support are with Deirdra and her school during this difficult time.   Help Stop Sequestration! Members of Congress returned to their Capitol Hill offices in Washington, D.C., this week. Contact them today to help ensure that stopping sequestration—the 8.4 percent across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending—is at the top of their agendas. Unless Congress repeals sequestration, federal education spending will be cut by about $4.1 billion beginning as early as January 2013. In addition, ASCD's policy team wants your stories about how sequestration is affecting (or will affect) you, your schools, and your school districts. Please e-mail your stories to policy@ascd.org. We will share them with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of our effort to urge Congress to repeal sequestration. Thank you for taking the time to reach out to your legislators about this important topic.   Sign Up for ASCD’s Whole Child Down Under Webinar Series This three-part series, presented by Australian educator and ASCD Director of Whole Child Programs Sean Slade, aims to further engage ASCD audiences in the work of ASCD and its Whole Child Initiative, which seeks to ensure that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The Down Under webinar series* runs from late September through the end of October and will outline a whole child approach to education through the role of the principal, school improvement, and alignment of health and education and how it links to current debates in Australia regarding the National Curriculum, findings from the Gonski Report (PDF), and the value of a well-rounded education. Learn more and register here.* Please note the series sessions are conveniently timed for Australian residents.   Something to Talk About Seven Tips for Aligning Assignments to Common Core Does Flipping Your Classroom Increase Homework Time? Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.       Association News ·         ASCD Announces Additional Common Core State Standards Institutes for Fall 2012 and Winter 2013—ASCD announces additional two-day and one-day Common Core Institutes for fall 2012 and winter 2013.These new institutes are part of the association’s ongoing effort to support educators at all levels nationwide as they implement the Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release. Building Assignments that Help Students Meet Standards the Focus of a New ASCD Book —ASCD has released Assignments Matter: Making the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards, written by seasoned teacher coach and curriculum design expert Eleanor Dougherty. This new professional development resource for educators is now available in e-book formats and in paperback. Read the full press release. ASCD Introduces Enhancements to Premier Professional Development Tool for Educators—ASCD recently introduced version 2.0 of its award-winning PD In Focus® online professional development tool. Based on research and user feedback, the enhancements in version 2.0 help teachers and administrators better meet their personal and systemic professional development goals. Read the full press release. ASCD Receives Three Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative—ASCD has been awarded three Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative. The Green Globes designation recognizes ASCD’s commitment to maintaining a sustainable building. Read the full press release. ASCD Handbook Translates Child Development Research into Effective Classroom Actions—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Understanding How Young Children Learn: Bringing the Science of Child Development to the Classroom by prominent cognitive psychology and child development expert Wendy L. Ostroff. This publication is now available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Free Digital Common Core Implementation Tool, Announces Fall Common Core Webinar Series—ASCD introduced the new, free EduCore™ digital tool for educators implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in both mathematics and literacy. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the EduCore tool is a repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the CCSS. Read the full press release. International Education Association Announces Free Webinars for Australian Educators—ASCD announced a free webinar series for Australian educators—the Whole Child Down Under Webinar Series. The aim of the series is to further engage Australian audiences in the work of ASCD and the Whole Child Initiative, which aims to ensure that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Free Online Needs Assessment and School Improvement Tool—ASCD has unveiled the free online ASCD School Improvement Tool, which is based on a whole child approach to education. Read the full press release.   Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:19:20 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-September-2012/blog/6339477/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-09-13T19:19:20Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders üNominate a school for the Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award by September 30. Nomination is open exclusively to ASCD leaders; e-mail wholechild@ascd.org for the nomination form and more information. üVote in ASCD’s general membership election. Voting ends October 15. Make your voice heard! More information about voting is available below. üRegister now for the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA). This conference is an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. More information about the institute is available below. üSpeak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. üRegister now for ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD President Debra Hill Welcomes you to the 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibit Show in her hometown of Chicago, IL, March 16-18.   Vote in ASCD’s 2012 General Membership Election ASCD's General Membership Election is open from September 1 through October 15, 2012. You can help determine the association's leadership by voting for President-Elect and members of the Board of Directors. Successful candidates will take office at the conclusion of ASCD's Annual Conference on March 18, 2013. The election is online-only. Here's how to vote online: go to www.ascd.org/vote. You will need to log in using your ASCD username, e-mail address, or member ID and password. If you are eligible to vote in this year's election, click on the Vote Now button to connect to our secure online election system. If you don't have your log-in information or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) and then press 1, or send an e-mail to member@ascd.org. Candidates’ photos and biographical information are included with the online ballot and will also appear in the September issue of Education Update. Have questions? Not every member has voting privileges. You are ineligible to vote if your membership was unpaid as of August 16, 2012, or you hold a complimentary membership. Please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org or phone (1-800-933-2723 or 1-703-575-5601) with any questions.   Register Today for ASCD’s Legislative Conference!   What will the presidential election and the new Congress mean for education in 2013? How will policy decisions related to the Common Core State Standards, educator evaluation systems, and education funding affect what’s happening in your districts, schools, and classrooms? ASCD’s 2013 Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) will address these and other timely topics that influence your day-to-day work as an educator. Register now for an outstanding opportunity to hear from national education leaders about the latest education policy developments, network with fellow educators, and share your expertise with your federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill.   The conference, to be held January 27–29, 2013, at the Westin Georgetown Hotel in Washington, D.C., will also feature ·         Sessions with Capitol Hill and U.S. Department of Education insiders who will share their perspectives on the fate of the No Child Left Behind Act. ·         The introduction of ASCD’s 2013 Legislative Agenda, which will outline the organization’s policy goals and vision for the coming year. ·         A Capitol Hill boot camp featuring video vignettes that will address the dos and don’ts of conducting meetings with your legislators. No matter your level of education policy and advocacy expertise, LILA offers something for you. Emerging leaders new to advocacy will get easy tips to apply throughout the year. Seasoned affiliate leaders will learn how to maximize their influence and deepen their relationships with federal policymakers. Access the conference agenda and registration and travel information. Questions? Contact ASCD’s policy team at policy@ascd.org.   ASCD Student Chapters: They’re Learning to Teach, Now Learning to Lead ASCD is proud to announce great new resources for ASCD Student Chapters, including an infographic on how to start a student chapter, a video on why ASCD student chapters are beneficial, and updated web pages for current student chapters. Also, for the first time, a student discount is available for the ASCD Fall Conference; students can access the discounted rate by selecting the student registration rate at checkout ($139 for members, $159 for non-members). Please use these resources to spread the word about ASCD Student Chapters in your community! Contact constituentservices@ascd.org if you have any questions.   ASCD Emerging Leaders Sound Off on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on the ASCD EDge community site. Please read, comment, and share! ·         Questions We All Should Ask by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Five Things Principals Should Focus on First; Blunders Can Lead to Breakthroughs; Prioritizing the Work; and New Beginnings and Where to Begin by Jessica Bohn, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         21st Century Connected Educator by Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Five Top Resources for Aligning Your Social Studies Curricula to the Common Core by Robert Zywicki, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Not a Disadvantage by Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         The Good News about Giving Bad News and Is Your PLN Truly a PLN? by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader Also, be sure to check out 2012 Emerging Leader Amy Fowler Murphy’s first blog post Be Prepared to Let Go to Grow.   Congratulations! 2012 ASCD Emerging Leader Matthew Cotton gave a paper at the ISME (International Society of Music Education) on Music in Charter Schools at the 2012 World Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece this last July.  2010ASCD Emerging Leader Ayanna Cooper recently accepted a position as a Senior Professional Development Consultant with World Class Instructional Design & Assessment (WIDA). She provides nationwide professional development to consortium members on assessing English Language Learners. Read her bio and her articles on professional development and Common Core State Standards. 2012 Emerging Leader Curtis Pelham was promoted last month to the assistant principal position at Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Charleston, SC.  Fred Ende’s acceptance to the ASCD Emerging Leader class of 2012 was recently featured on lohud.com.  OYEA Honoree Maureen Connolly recently wrote a great article for ASCD’s Common Core newsletter, Core Connection. Read her article on the Common Core and Service Learning. OYEA Honoree and Emerging Leader Marnie Hazelton was recently appointed Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education at Roosevelt Union Free School District in New York. Other News The Northeast ASCD Affiliate Conference themed “Learning and Leading: Transformation Matters,” takes place November 29–December 1, 2012, in Boston, Mass.  Check out ASCD Constituent Services Director Kevin Scott’s blog postsDay 1 and 9/12 on ASCD EDge, where he explores the education experience through the eyes of his children.  ASCD Constituent Services Director Walter McKenzie recently guest posted for SmartBlog on What does a 21st Century Organization Look Like? The Pennsylvania ASCD Annual Conference themed “Power Up: New Perspectives” takes place November 18–20 in Hershey, Penn.   OYEA Winner’s School Sustains Significant Fire Damage Last weekend, a three alarm fire ravaged the Hoboken Charter School, where 2007 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Deirdra Grode is currently serving as Principal. According to the school website, classes have been moved to a new facility while repairs are made to the severely damaged school building. Updates are available on the school website and Facebook. Our best wishes and support are with Deirdra and her school during this difficult time.   Help Stop Sequestration! Members of Congress returned to their Capitol Hill offices in Washington, D.C., this week. Contact them today to help ensure that stopping sequestration—the 8.4 percent across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending—is at the top of their agendas. Unless Congress repeals sequestration, federal education spending will be cut by about $4.1 billion beginning as early as January 2013. In addition, ASCD's policy team wants your stories about how sequestration is affecting (or will affect) you, your schools, and your school districts. Please e-mail your stories to policy@ascd.org. We will share them with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of our effort to urge Congress to repeal sequestration. Thank you for taking the time to reach out to your legislators about this important topic.   Sign Up for ASCD’s Whole Child Down Under Webinar Series This three-part series, presented by Australian educator and ASCD Director of Whole Child Programs Sean Slade, aims to further engage ASCD audiences in the work of ASCD and its Whole Child Initiative, which seeks to ensure that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The Down Under webinar series* runs from late September through the end of October and will outline a whole child approach to education through the role of the principal, school improvement, and alignment of health and education and how it links to current debates in Australia regarding the National Curriculum, findings from the Gonski Report (PDF), and the value of a well-rounded education. Learn more and register here.* Please note the series sessions are conveniently timed for Australian residents.   Something to Talk About Seven Tips for Aligning Assignments to Common Core Does Flipping Your Classroom Increase Homework Time? Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.       Association News ·         ASCD Announces Additional Common Core State Standards Institutes for Fall 2012 and Winter 2013—ASCD announces additional two-day and one-day Common Core Institutes for fall 2012 and winter 2013.These new institutes are part of the association’s ongoing effort to support educators at all levels nationwide as they implement the Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release. Building Assignments that Help Students Meet Standards the Focus of a New ASCD Book —ASCD has released Assignments Matter: Making the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards, written by seasoned teacher coach and curriculum design expert Eleanor Dougherty. This new professional development resource for educators is now available in e-book formats and in paperback. Read the full press release. ASCD Introduces Enhancements to Premier Professional Development Tool for Educators—ASCD recently introduced version 2.0 of its award-winning PD In Focus® online professional development tool. Based on research and user feedback, the enhancements in version 2.0 help teachers and administrators better meet their personal and systemic professional development goals. Read the full press release. ASCD Receives Three Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative—ASCD has been awarded three Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative. The Green Globes designation recognizes ASCD’s commitment to maintaining a sustainable building. Read the full press release. ASCD Handbook Translates Child Development Research into Effective Classroom Actions—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Understanding How Young Children Learn: Bringing the Science of Child Development to the Classroom by prominent cognitive psychology and child development expert Wendy L. Ostroff. This publication is now available in paperback and e-book formats. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Free Digital Common Core Implementation Tool, Announces Fall Common Core Webinar Series—ASCD introduced the new, free EduCore™ digital tool for educators implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in both mathematics and literacy. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the EduCore tool is a repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the CCSS. Read the full press release. International Education Association Announces Free Webinars for Australian Educators—ASCD announced a free webinar series for Australian educators—the Whole Child Down Under Webinar Series. The aim of the series is to further engage Australian audiences in the work of ASCD and the Whole Child Initiative, which aims to ensure that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Read the full press release. ASCD Launches Free Online Needs Assessment and School Improvement Tool—ASCD has unveiled the free online ASCD School Improvement Tool, which is based on a whole child approach to education. Read the full press release.   nonadult false L2L News: September 2012 text blog 833 10 5.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6339477 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-August-2012/blog/6283023/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   ASCD Launches Free Online Needs Assessment and School Improvement Tool All educators want to improve the work they do for students. Whether it’s instruction, school climate, leadership, family engagement, or any of the other issues we face on a daily basis, we all need tools to help us improve in our context with our students. The ASCD School Improvement Tool is the newest and best way to get a snapshot of how well your school or district is doing and then identify what steps to take to get to the next level. Designed for use in schools and districts around the world, this free tool offers educators a comprehensive and completely online needs assessment. It includes a survey based on the indicators(PDF) of a sustainable whole child approach to education which span school climate and culture, instruction and curriculum, leadership, family and community engagement, professional development and staff capacity, and assessment. Based on your unique results, the tool points you to professional development resources that can help immediately address schoolwide challenges. Go to http://sitool.ascd.orgto get started. To post an ASCD School Improvement Tool badge on your website: Go to http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/siteASCD/ProfessionalDevelopment/school-improvement-tool-150x150.png. Download the image to your computer (for PC users: right-click your mouse and select “save image as”). Hyperlink the image to http://sitool.ascd.org, preferably to open in a new window/tab. -Or- Use the following html code to embed the image, already linked, on your website: <a href="http://sitool.ascd.org/Default.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/siteASCD/ProfessionalDevelopment/school-improvement-tool-150x150.png" alt="ASCD School Improvement Tool" width="150" height="150" /></a> Contact Klea Scharberg at kscharbe@ascd.org with questions or specific size, format, or language requests.   Please Welcome the Whole Child Network of Schools to the ASCD Community The 10 schools—nine from across the continental United States and one from Guam —chosen to participate in ASCD’s Whole Child Network kicked off their efforts with a two and a half day Whole Child Network Summer Institute in Alexandria, Va., on July 15–17, 2012. These chosen schools have committed to a comprehensive school improvement process using the tenets of the Whole Child Initiative—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to education. The July institute will be followed by a one-day, on-site professional development at each school. Facilitated in partnership with ASCD’s Whole Child Programs staff, the training will introduce the whole child approach to education within each participating school’s community. ASCD staff will work with each school to support a comprehensive implementation based on the school’s results fromthe new ASCD School Improvement Tool and in correlation with their school improvement plans. Contact Donna Snyder, Manager Whole Child Programs, for more information at 703-575-5448 or donna.snyder@ascd.org 2012 Whole Child Network of Schools: ·         Albert Harris Elementary School, Martinsville, Va., K–5. ·         Drew-Freeman Middle School,  Suitland, Md., 7–8. ·         Finegayan Elementary School, Hagatna, Guam, Head Start and K–5. ·         Fredstrom Elementary School, Lincoln, Neb., K–5. ·         Holly Glen Elementary School, Williamstown, N.J., preK–4. ·         Le Sueur-Henderson High School, Le Sueur, Minn., l 6–12. ·         Martinsville High School, Martinsville, Va., 9–12. ·         Odyssey Community School of the Santa Clara County School District in San Martin, Calif., 9–12. ·         P.S. 9, the Teunis G. Bergen Elementary School Brooklyn, N.Y., preK–5. ·         Urban Community School in Cleveland, Ohio, preK–8. Read the full press release.   ASCD Emerging Leaders Sound Off on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on ASCD EDge. Feel free to comment and share! ·         Ready, Set, Goals! By Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         On the Edge of Insanity: Developing My First PLN! By Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Practice Makes Permanent by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         How Will You Be a Connected Educator? By Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         If It Ain’t Broke… by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Reform in Mathematics Teaching by Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader ·         The Power of the Lurker by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Does the Student Create the Teacher? By Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Learn to Lead, Lead to Learn by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         If We Are Going to Lead, We Have to Be Connected by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader   Over 200 Leaders Gather for the 2012 Leader to Leader Conference Last month, ASCD leaders met at the Hyatt Dulles hotel for the 2012 Leader to Leader Conference. ASCD staff would like to thank attendees for a great conference and for their dedication and renewed commitment to revolutionizing the way we learn by ensuring that each child, in each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Attendees have already provided extremely helpful feedback in the conference evaluation that will help inform future improvements to the conference.   Past OYEA Cadre Members Share Their Thoughts on ASCD Inservice ·         From School Leader to Community Leader “You can no longer just worry about the issues that are happening within your school.”—Luis Torres, 2011 OYEA Winner ·         How Leaders in Singapore Stay Relevant to the Classroom “It’s this constant rotation in leadership so that educational leaders still have that fresh classroom experience to really think as a teacher.”—Deirdra Grode, 2008 OYEA Winner ·         Educational Leadership is My Just-in-Time Resource —Dallas Dance, OYEA Honoree ·         Using Mobile Devices to Improve Feedback Between Teachers and Principals “As principals, the quickest way to help students is to give teachers really good feedback.” — Brian Nichols, 2010 OYEA Winner ·         Is Learning Being Redefined as Project-Based?—Bijal Damani, 2009 OYEA Winner   Help Stop Sequestration! Sequestration will take effect in January 2013 unless Congress repeals it, making it crucial for education leaders like you to act now to prevent education spending from being cut by 8.4 percent, or about $4.1 billion. Access ASCD’s updated sequestration page to learn more about the estimated cuts and their timing for key education programs and to calculate the amount that your school or program stands to lose. Take advantage of this month’s congressional recess to meet with your federal lawmakers, inform them about sequestration’s severe consequences on local schools, and urge them to repeal the across-the-board cuts. E-mail your stories about how sequestration is affecting (or will affect) you, your schools, and your school districts to ASCD’s Policy Team. We will share them with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of our effort to urge Congress to repeal sequestration. If you haven’t yet e-mailed your federal legislators about sequestration, we strongly encourage you to take five minutes to contact them today.   Save the Date for ASCD’s Annual Legislative Conference Don’t let Congress make decisions about student achievement, teacher effectiveness, and school reform without the expert information you can provide. Let your voice be heard at ASCD's Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), which will be held January 27–29, 2013. LILA is your opportunity to learn about and advocate for the education policies that have a direct effect on your work in the district, school, and classroom. Whether you are just becoming interested in advocacy or are a long-time activist, LILA can enhance your influence and effectiveness with policymakers at all levels. Look for more information, including registration details, in the coming weeks.    Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         Prince George's County Public Schools and ASCD Partner to Achieve Title I Professional Development Goals—Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) Title I Office has chosen ASCD as its newest professional development partner. As the second largest school system in Maryland and the 18th largest in the nation, PGCPS's 9,000 educators serve 125,000 students in 205 schools. Read the full press release. ·         School Renewal Experts Publish ASCD Guidebook for Fearlessly Leading School Transformation—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools Through Fearless Leadership, a practical and inspiring new book by school renewal experts Yvette Jackson and Veronica McDermott. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Leader Receives Award for 20 Years of Service—ASCD CEO and Executive Director Dr. Gene R. Carter was honored by the association’s Board of Directors for his 20 years of service to the organization. The award was presented to Dr. Carter by ASCD President Debra Hill at the close of the association’s summer Board of Directors’ meeting in Alexandria, Va. Read the full press release.   ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   ASCD Launches Free Online Needs Assessment and School Improvement Tool All educators want to improve the work they do for students. Whether it’s instruction, school climate, leadership, family engagement, or any of the other issues we face on a daily basis, we all need tools to help us improve in our context with our students. The ASCD School Improvement Tool is the newest and best way to get a snapshot of how well your school or district is doing and then identify what steps to take to get to the next level. Designed for use in schools and districts around the world, this free tool offers educators a comprehensive and completely online needs assessment. It includes a survey based on the indicators(PDF) of a sustainable whole child approach to education which span school climate and culture, instruction and curriculum, leadership, family and community engagement, professional development and staff capacity, and assessment. Based on your unique results, the tool points you to professional development resources that can help immediately address schoolwide challenges. Go to http://sitool.ascd.orgto get started. To post an ASCD School Improvement Tool badge on your website: Go to http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/siteASCD/ProfessionalDevelopment/school-improvement-tool-150x150.png. Download the image to your computer (for PC users: right-click your mouse and select “save image as”). Hyperlink the image to http://sitool.ascd.org, preferably to open in a new window/tab. -Or- Use the following html code to embed the image, already linked, on your website: <a href="http://sitool.ascd.org/Default.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/siteASCD/ProfessionalDevelopment/school-improvement-tool-150x150.png" alt="ASCD School Improvement Tool" width="150" height="150" /></a> Contact Klea Scharberg at kscharbe@ascd.org with questions or specific size, format, or language requests.   Please Welcome the Whole Child Network of Schools to the ASCD Community The 10 schools—nine from across the continental United States and one from Guam —chosen to participate in ASCD’s Whole Child Network kicked off their efforts with a two and a half day Whole Child Network Summer Institute in Alexandria, Va., on July 15–17, 2012. These chosen schools have committed to a comprehensive school improvement process using the tenets of the Whole Child Initiative—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to education. The July institute will be followed by a one-day, on-site professional development at each school. Facilitated in partnership with ASCD’s Whole Child Programs staff, the training will introduce the whole child approach to education within each participating school’s community. ASCD staff will work with each school to support a comprehensive implementation based on the school’s results fromthe new ASCD School Improvement Tool and in correlation with their school improvement plans. Contact Donna Snyder, Manager Whole Child Programs, for more information at 703-575-5448 or donna.snyder@ascd.org 2012 Whole Child Network of Schools: ·         Albert Harris Elementary School, Martinsville, Va., K–5. ·         Drew-Freeman Middle School,  Suitland, Md., 7–8. ·         Finegayan Elementary School, Hagatna, Guam, Head Start and K–5. ·         Fredstrom Elementary School, Lincoln, Neb., K–5. ·         Holly Glen Elementary School, Williamstown, N.J., preK–4. ·         Le Sueur-Henderson High School, Le Sueur, Minn., l 6–12. ·         Martinsville High School, Martinsville, Va., 9–12. ·         Odyssey Community School of the Santa Clara County School District in San Martin, Calif., 9–12. ·         P.S. 9, the Teunis G. Bergen Elementary School Brooklyn, N.Y., preK–5. ·         Urban Community School in Cleveland, Ohio, preK–8. Read the full press release.   ASCD Emerging Leaders Sound Off on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on ASCD EDge. Feel free to comment and share! ·         Ready, Set, Goals! By Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         On the Edge of Insanity: Developing My First PLN! By Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Practice Makes Permanent by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         How Will You Be a Connected Educator? By Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         If It Ain’t Broke… by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Reform in Mathematics Teaching by Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader ·         The Power of the Lurker by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Does the Student Create the Teacher? By Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Learn to Lead, Lead to Learn by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         If We Are Going to Lead, We Have to Be Connected by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader   Over 200 Leaders Gather for the 2012 Leader to Leader Conference Last month, ASCD leaders met at the Hyatt Dulles hotel for the 2012 Leader to Leader Conference. ASCD staff would like to thank attendees for a great conference and for their dedication and renewed commitment to revolutionizing the way we learn by ensuring that each child, in each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Attendees have already provided extremely helpful feedback in the conference evaluation that will help inform future improvements to the conference.   Past OYEA Cadre Members Share Their Thoughts on ASCD Inservice ·         From School Leader to Community Leader “You can no longer just worry about the issues that are happening within your school.”—Luis Torres, 2011 OYEA Winner ·         How Leaders in Singapore Stay Relevant to the Classroom “It’s this constant rotation in leadership so that educational leaders still have that fresh classroom experience to really think as a teacher.”—Deirdra Grode, 2008 OYEA Winner ·         Educational Leadership is My Just-in-Time Resource —Dallas Dance, OYEA Honoree ·         Using Mobile Devices to Improve Feedback Between Teachers and Principals “As principals, the quickest way to help students is to give teachers really good feedback.” — Brian Nichols, 2010 OYEA Winner ·         Is Learning Being Redefined as Project-Based?—Bijal Damani, 2009 OYEA Winner   Help Stop Sequestration! Sequestration will take effect in January 2013 unless Congress repeals it, making it crucial for education leaders like you to act now to prevent education spending from being cut by 8.4 percent, or about $4.1 billion. Access ASCD’s updated sequestration page to learn more about the estimated cuts and their timing for key education programs and to calculate the amount that your school or program stands to lose. Take advantage of this month’s congressional recess to meet with your federal lawmakers, inform them about sequestration’s severe consequences on local schools, and urge them to repeal the across-the-board cuts. E-mail your stories about how sequestration is affecting (or will affect) you, your schools, and your school districts to ASCD’s Policy Team. We will share them with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of our effort to urge Congress to repeal sequestration. If you haven’t yet e-mailed your federal legislators about sequestration, we strongly encourage you to take five minutes to contact them today.   Save the Date for ASCD’s Annual Legislative Conference Don’t let Congress make decisions about student achievement, teacher effectiveness, and school reform without the expert information you can provide. Let your voice be heard at ASCD's Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), which will be held January 27–29, 2013. LILA is your opportunity to learn about and advocate for the education policies that have a direct effect on your work in the district, school, and classroom. Whether you are just becoming interested in advocacy or are a long-time activist, LILA can enhance your influence and effectiveness with policymakers at all levels. Look for more information, including registration details, in the coming weeks.    Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         Prince George's County Public Schools and ASCD Partner to Achieve Title I Professional Development Goals—Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) Title I Office has chosen ASCD as its newest professional development partner. As the second largest school system in Maryland and the 18th largest in the nation, PGCPS's 9,000 educators serve 125,000 students in 205 schools. Read the full press release. ·         School Renewal Experts Publish ASCD Guidebook for Fearlessly Leading School Transformation—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools Through Fearless Leadership, a practical and inspiring new book by school renewal experts Yvette Jackson and Veronica McDermott. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Leader Receives Award for 20 Years of Service—ASCD CEO and Executive Director Dr. Gene R. Carter was honored by the association’s Board of Directors for his 20 years of service to the organization. The award was presented to Dr. Carter by ASCD President Debra Hill at the close of the association’s summer Board of Directors’ meeting in Alexandria, Va. Read the full press release.   Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:32:58 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-August-2012/blog/6283023/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-08-16T19:32:58Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   ASCD Launches Free Online Needs Assessment and School Improvement Tool All educators want to improve the work they do for students. Whether it’s instruction, school climate, leadership, family engagement, or any of the other issues we face on a daily basis, we all need tools to help us improve in our context with our students. The ASCD School Improvement Tool is the newest and best way to get a snapshot of how well your school or district is doing and then identify what steps to take to get to the next level. Designed for use in schools and districts around the world, this free tool offers educators a comprehensive and completely online needs assessment. It includes a survey based on the indicators(PDF) of a sustainable whole child approach to education which span school climate and culture, instruction and curriculum, leadership, family and community engagement, professional development and staff capacity, and assessment. Based on your unique results, the tool points you to professional development resources that can help immediately address schoolwide challenges. Go to http://sitool.ascd.orgto get started. To post an ASCD School Improvement Tool badge on your website: Go to http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/siteASCD/ProfessionalDevelopment/school-improvement-tool-150x150.png. Download the image to your computer (for PC users: right-click your mouse and select “save image as”). Hyperlink the image to http://sitool.ascd.org, preferably to open in a new window/tab. -Or- Use the following html code to embed the image, already linked, on your website: <a href="http://sitool.ascd.org/Default.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/siteASCD/ProfessionalDevelopment/school-improvement-tool-150x150.png" alt="ASCD School Improvement Tool" width="150" height="150" /></a> Contact Klea Scharberg at kscharbe@ascd.org with questions or specific size, format, or language requests.   Please Welcome the Whole Child Network of Schools to the ASCD Community The 10 schools—nine from across the continental United States and one from Guam —chosen to participate in ASCD’s Whole Child Network kicked off their efforts with a two and a half day Whole Child Network Summer Institute in Alexandria, Va., on July 15–17, 2012. These chosen schools have committed to a comprehensive school improvement process using the tenets of the Whole Child Initiative—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—and their indicators (PDF) as a sustainable whole child approach to education. The July institute will be followed by a one-day, on-site professional development at each school. Facilitated in partnership with ASCD’s Whole Child Programs staff, the training will introduce the whole child approach to education within each participating school’s community. ASCD staff will work with each school to support a comprehensive implementation based on the school’s results fromthe new ASCD School Improvement Tool and in correlation with their school improvement plans. Contact Donna Snyder, Manager Whole Child Programs, for more information at 703-575-5448 or donna.snyder@ascd.org 2012 Whole Child Network of Schools: ·         Albert Harris Elementary School, Martinsville, Va., K–5. ·         Drew-Freeman Middle School,  Suitland, Md., 7–8. ·         Finegayan Elementary School, Hagatna, Guam, Head Start and K–5. ·         Fredstrom Elementary School, Lincoln, Neb., K–5. ·         Holly Glen Elementary School, Williamstown, N.J., preK–4. ·         Le Sueur-Henderson High School, Le Sueur, Minn., l 6–12. ·         Martinsville High School, Martinsville, Va., 9–12. ·         Odyssey Community School of the Santa Clara County School District in San Martin, Calif., 9–12. ·         P.S. 9, the Teunis G. Bergen Elementary School Brooklyn, N.Y., preK–5. ·         Urban Community School in Cleveland, Ohio, preK–8. Read the full press release.   ASCD Emerging Leaders Sound Off on ASCD EDge Check out these great posts from ASCD leaders on ASCD EDge. Feel free to comment and share! ·         Ready, Set, Goals! By Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         On the Edge of Insanity: Developing My First PLN! By Craig Martin, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Practice Makes Permanent by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         How Will You Be a Connected Educator? By Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         If It Ain’t Broke… by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Reform in Mathematics Teaching by Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader ·         The Power of the Lurker by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Does the Student Create the Teacher? By Jason Ellingson, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         Learn to Lead, Lead to Learn by Fred Ende, 2012 Emerging Leader ·         If We Are Going to Lead, We Have to Be Connected by Steven Anderson, 2012 Emerging Leader   Over 200 Leaders Gather for the 2012 Leader to Leader Conference Last month, ASCD leaders met at the Hyatt Dulles hotel for the 2012 Leader to Leader Conference. ASCD staff would like to thank attendees for a great conference and for their dedication and renewed commitment to revolutionizing the way we learn by ensuring that each child, in each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Attendees have already provided extremely helpful feedback in the conference evaluation that will help inform future improvements to the conference.   Past OYEA Cadre Members Share Their Thoughts on ASCD Inservice ·         From School Leader to Community Leader “You can no longer just worry about the issues that are happening within your school.”—Luis Torres, 2011 OYEA Winner ·         How Leaders in Singapore Stay Relevant to the Classroom “It’s this constant rotation in leadership so that educational leaders still have that fresh classroom experience to really think as a teacher.”—Deirdra Grode, 2008 OYEA Winner ·         Educational Leadership is My Just-in-Time Resource —Dallas Dance, OYEA Honoree ·         Using Mobile Devices to Improve Feedback Between Teachers and Principals “As principals, the quickest way to help students is to give teachers really good feedback.” — Brian Nichols, 2010 OYEA Winner ·         Is Learning Being Redefined as Project-Based?—Bijal Damani, 2009 OYEA Winner   Help Stop Sequestration! Sequestration will take effect in January 2013 unless Congress repeals it, making it crucial for education leaders like you to act now to prevent education spending from being cut by 8.4 percent, or about $4.1 billion. Access ASCD’s updated sequestration page to learn more about the estimated cuts and their timing for key education programs and to calculate the amount that your school or program stands to lose. Take advantage of this month’s congressional recess to meet with your federal lawmakers, inform them about sequestration’s severe consequences on local schools, and urge them to repeal the across-the-board cuts. E-mail your stories about how sequestration is affecting (or will affect) you, your schools, and your school districts to ASCD’s Policy Team. We will share them with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as part of our effort to urge Congress to repeal sequestration. If you haven’t yet e-mailed your federal legislators about sequestration, we strongly encourage you to take five minutes to contact them today.   Save the Date for ASCD’s Annual Legislative Conference Don’t let Congress make decisions about student achievement, teacher effectiveness, and school reform without the expert information you can provide. Let your voice be heard at ASCD's Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), which will be held January 27–29, 2013. LILA is your opportunity to learn about and advocate for the education policies that have a direct effect on your work in the district, school, and classroom. Whether you are just becoming interested in advocacy or are a long-time activist, LILA can enhance your influence and effectiveness with policymakers at all levels. Look for more information, including registration details, in the coming weeks.    Something to Talk About ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         Prince George's County Public Schools and ASCD Partner to Achieve Title I Professional Development Goals—Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) Title I Office has chosen ASCD as its newest professional development partner. As the second largest school system in Maryland and the 18th largest in the nation, PGCPS's 9,000 educators serve 125,000 students in 205 schools. Read the full press release. ·         School Renewal Experts Publish ASCD Guidebook for Fearlessly Leading School Transformation—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools Through Fearless Leadership, a practical and inspiring new book by school renewal experts Yvette Jackson and Veronica McDermott. Read the full press release. ·         ASCD Leader Receives Award for 20 Years of Service—ASCD CEO and Executive Director Dr. Gene R. Carter was honored by the association’s Board of Directors for his 20 years of service to the organization. The award was presented to Dr. Carter by ASCD President Debra Hill at the close of the association’s summer Board of Directors’ meeting in Alexandria, Va. Read the full press release.   nonadult false L2L News: August 2012 text blog 666 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6283023 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-July-2012/blog/6222311/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Nominate or apply for the Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) by August 1. ASCD is awarding $10,000 to educators under the age of 40 who demonstrate excellence in educating the whole child. Learn more and nominate at www.ascd.org/oyea. Nominations for the 2013 award are open until 11:59 p.m. eastern time on August 1.  Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to submit a manuscript to Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider nontheme-related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.   ASCD Governance Updates: Constitutional Changes and Candidates for Office ASCD Members Approve Proposed Constitutional Changes ASCD members voted to approve a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution; the results were certified by the independent audit firm of CliftonLarsonAllenLLP. The approved changes will result in ·         A smaller Board of Directors over the next four years. ·         An increase in a Board member’s term from three years to four years, effective with the 2013 elections. ·         Election of a President by Board members, rather than the general membership, beginning in 2015. ·         The creation of an ASCD Forum, effective by the end of 2012. ·         Dissolution of the Leadership Council, effective immediately. Please contact Becky DeRigge if you have any questions about the vote.   Slate of Candidates for the 2012 ASCD General Membership Election President-Elect (one-year term): Marc Cohen, Md. Nancy Gibson, Ill. Board of Directors (one position available, two-year term): D. William Dodds, Ill. Judith Zimmerman, Ohio Board of Directors (two positions available, three-year terms): Jennifer Lewis, Australia Matt McClure, Ark. Pam Vogel, Iowa   Meet the 2012 ASCD President-Elect Candidates In 2012, ASCD members will elect the President-Elect, who will serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors as an officer of the association: one year as President-Elect, one year as President, and one year as Immediate Past-President. This year, ASCD held the 2012 Meet the President-Elect Candidates Forum at its Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pa. The event allowed interested members to pose questions to each candidate and to get better acquainted with their credentials to make a more informed election decision. Members will vote on candidates from September 1 through October 15, 2012. To help inform your vote, view the video of the session, which begins with opening statements from both candidates and is followed by their responses to each question. A PDF transcript of the forum is also available. In addition, be sure to keep an eye out for the September issue of Education Update, which will include biographical information on the candidates in the General Membership election as well as instructions on how to vote.     Please Welcome New Affiliate Executive Directors Please join ASCD in welcoming the following individuals as they begin their new roles as ASCD affiliate executive directors: Kevin Kjellerup, Florida ASCD Rex Anderson, Nebraska ASCD Patricia Miller, New Mexico ASCD Valerie Kelsey, New York State ASCD Daniel Craig, Oklahoma ASCD Richard Nilsen, Pennsylvania ASCD Lynne Baty, Utah ASCD Please note the following interim contact until the affiliate has a new executive director: Massachusetts ASCD: Cynthia Crimmin, affiliate president   2012 Emerging Leaders Featured in the News Check out these news pieces featuring 2012 ASCD Emerging Leaders: ·         Michael DeCaprio ·         Jason Ellingson ·         Rob Zywicki ·         Krista Rundell   Farewell and Thank You to Outgoing Affiliate Executive Directors It is a time of transition for many affiliates, as new affiliate presidents-elect and presidents began their terms on July 1. At the same time, several affiliate executive directors have recently transitioned out of their leadership roles as well. ASCD would like to take a moment to thank these leaders for their years of work and dedication in the affiliate executive director role, striving to ensure that each child in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. You will be missed! Kim Pearson, Florida ASCD Mary Forte Hayes, Massachusetts ASCD Sue Anderson, Nebraska ASCD Judith Tanner, New Mexico ASCD Tony Mello, New York State ASCD Wayne Beam, Oklahoma ASCD Jim Warnock, Pennsylvania ASCD Amanda Calton, Utah ASCD   Past OYEA Cadre Members Share Their Thoughts on ASCD Inservice 2010 Outstanding Young Educator honoree Kurtis Hewson works with preservice teachers in Canada. He says social networking benefits new teachers in ways that are often overlooked in traditional training and induction programs. Find out why he advises preservice teachers to start networking before they get in the classroom.  “Teaching strategies are alternative, but the students aren’t.”—ASCD’s 2007 Outstanding Young Educator Joris Ray on taking opportunities, no matter how seemingly small, to redefine your work as a leader.  2005 Outstanding Young Educator Pete Hall tells us to “Be the Duck.”     Congratulations! 2010 ASCD Emerging Leader and California ASCD Board Member John Forbes is the new principal of Fresno High School.  California ASCD Board Member Devin Vodicka is the new Superintendent of Vista Unified School District.   Other News California ASCD welcomes two new board members: Laurel Ashlock and Dennis Deets. CASCD also extends a warm welcome to the 2012 Emerging Leaders from California: Matthew Cotton and Annie Brown.  Virginia ASCD would like to thank Betsy Poulsen for her two years of dedication and hard work as president. Under her leadership, VASCD improved communication with members, defined the role and responsibilities of Board members in detail, revised the constitution and bylaws, and recognized the need to influence and inform the state’s general assembly regarding education issues. In this time when so much is going on in education, it is important to recognize someone who is so committed to providing the tools and support to make all children successful. The VASCD board and members applaud you, Betsy!  Last month, we featured the @MentorTeachers and @WorldofLanguages as Twitter success stories. Check out the story from Richard Lange’s perspective on ASCD EDge in his post, Tweeting With Friends.  Check out the ASCD Inservice post Defining Your Own Best Practices, which highlights former OYEA Winner Pete Hall’s ASCD Virtual Conference session. Check Out the Whole Child Summer Professional Devleopment Blog Series Through the end of August, the Whole Child Blog will be running a summer professional development (PD) blog series. This free series provides whole child resources that educators can use to gain further insight on implementing a whole child approach. The first post, "Your Summer PD: Successful School," provides readers with an understanding of what successful school sites are doing adn the steps that they can take to build and sustain a whole child culture.   Thirteen Huffington Post Education, Parenting, and Health Bloggers Joint Post In Support of the Whole Child ASCD Whole Child Programs Director Sean Slade joined Martin J. Blank, Sam Chaltain, Peter DeWitt, John M. Eger, Larry Ferlazzo, Jenifer Fox, Shaun Johnson, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Jennifer Peck, Kate Quarfordt, Jim Taylor, and Jill Vialet to write the blog post entitled “In Support of the Whole Child:” "We are at a crossroads in this nation regarding the direction that public education will take in the coming decades. Do we ffocus on a curriculum that concentrates on a few core subjects or do we gain an appreciation for how public education can develop all aspects of the child to teh benefit of each of them as well as society in general? Do we place test preparation ahead of actually educating our children and test scores ahead of broader and more holistic approaches to evaluating students' competencies? These questions lay at the heart of the current debate about the future of public education in America." Read the full post.   Something to Talk About Cracking the Behavior Code, ASCD Inservice Five Questions for Common Core, ASCD Inservice Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Teaching and Leading Conference Hosted by ASCD Coming to Atlanta in October—ASCD is bringing its Fall Conference on Revolutionizing the Way We Lead and Learn to Atlanta, Ga., October 26–28, 2012. Read the full press release. Free Resources from ASCD Offer Professional Development Opportunities All Summer—This summer ASCD has again made available to educators of all levels a wide variety of free professional development resources. Read the full press release. New Coalition Promotes College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness—A broad new coalition, led by ASCD and joined by more than two dozen national education organizations, has been formed to better advocate for school programs beyond reading, math, and science. Representing a wide array of subject areas, the members of the College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness Coalition are working to advance the concept that a comprehensive education in all core academic subjects, including physical education and health education, is necessary to prepare graduates for college and careers. Read the full press release. AETN, ADE Renew Partnership with ASCD Providing Effective Professional Development to Educators Across Arkansas—The Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) and Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) have renewed their partnership with ASCD to provide effective, digital professional development opportunities for Arkansas educators statewide. Delivered through the ArkansasIDEAS (Internet Delivered Education for Arkansas Schools) professional development website, ASCD’s professional development courses cover topics such as Common Core State Standards implementation, differentiated instruction, integrating technology into classroom instruction, and other critical subjects and competencies. Read the full press release. New DVDs from ASCD Explore Unpacking Common Core State Standards and Effective Supervision—ASCD has created two new professional development DVDs. These new releases feature the groundbreaking work of leading education experts and empower viewers to implement Common Core State Standards using the Understanding by Design® framework and apply the art and science of teaching to effective supervision. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces Free 2012 Summer Boot Camp Webinar Series—ASCD announces the 2012 Summer Boot Camp webinar series. Assisting educators at all levels around the globe prepare for the 2012–13 school year, ASCD’s free summer boot camp comprises nine informative webinars on a variety of topics that shape classrooms worldwide. Read the full press release.             ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Nominate or apply for the Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) by August 1. ASCD is awarding $10,000 to educators under the age of 40 who demonstrate excellence in educating the whole child. Learn more and nominate at www.ascd.org/oyea. Nominations for the 2013 award are open until 11:59 p.m. eastern time on August 1.  Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to submit a manuscript to Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider nontheme-related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.   ASCD Governance Updates: Constitutional Changes and Candidates for Office ASCD Members Approve Proposed Constitutional Changes ASCD members voted to approve a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution; the results were certified by the independent audit firm of CliftonLarsonAllenLLP. The approved changes will result in ·         A smaller Board of Directors over the next four years. ·         An increase in a Board member’s term from three years to four years, effective with the 2013 elections. ·         Election of a President by Board members, rather than the general membership, beginning in 2015. ·         The creation of an ASCD Forum, effective by the end of 2012. ·         Dissolution of the Leadership Council, effective immediately. Please contact Becky DeRigge if you have any questions about the vote.   Slate of Candidates for the 2012 ASCD General Membership Election President-Elect (one-year term): Marc Cohen, Md. Nancy Gibson, Ill. Board of Directors (one position available, two-year term): D. William Dodds, Ill. Judith Zimmerman, Ohio Board of Directors (two positions available, three-year terms): Jennifer Lewis, Australia Matt McClure, Ark. Pam Vogel, Iowa   Meet the 2012 ASCD President-Elect Candidates In 2012, ASCD members will elect the President-Elect, who will serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors as an officer of the association: one year as President-Elect, one year as President, and one year as Immediate Past-President. This year, ASCD held the 2012 Meet the President-Elect Candidates Forum at its Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pa. The event allowed interested members to pose questions to each candidate and to get better acquainted with their credentials to make a more informed election decision. Members will vote on candidates from September 1 through October 15, 2012. To help inform your vote, view the video of the session, which begins with opening statements from both candidates and is followed by their responses to each question. A PDF transcript of the forum is also available. In addition, be sure to keep an eye out for the September issue of Education Update, which will include biographical information on the candidates in the General Membership election as well as instructions on how to vote.     Please Welcome New Affiliate Executive Directors Please join ASCD in welcoming the following individuals as they begin their new roles as ASCD affiliate executive directors: Kevin Kjellerup, Florida ASCD Rex Anderson, Nebraska ASCD Patricia Miller, New Mexico ASCD Valerie Kelsey, New York State ASCD Daniel Craig, Oklahoma ASCD Richard Nilsen, Pennsylvania ASCD Lynne Baty, Utah ASCD Please note the following interim contact until the affiliate has a new executive director: Massachusetts ASCD: Cynthia Crimmin, affiliate president   2012 Emerging Leaders Featured in the News Check out these news pieces featuring 2012 ASCD Emerging Leaders: ·         Michael DeCaprio ·         Jason Ellingson ·         Rob Zywicki ·         Krista Rundell   Farewell and Thank You to Outgoing Affiliate Executive Directors It is a time of transition for many affiliates, as new affiliate presidents-elect and presidents began their terms on July 1. At the same time, several affiliate executive directors have recently transitioned out of their leadership roles as well. ASCD would like to take a moment to thank these leaders for their years of work and dedication in the affiliate executive director role, striving to ensure that each child in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. You will be missed! Kim Pearson, Florida ASCD Mary Forte Hayes, Massachusetts ASCD Sue Anderson, Nebraska ASCD Judith Tanner, New Mexico ASCD Tony Mello, New York State ASCD Wayne Beam, Oklahoma ASCD Jim Warnock, Pennsylvania ASCD Amanda Calton, Utah ASCD   Past OYEA Cadre Members Share Their Thoughts on ASCD Inservice 2010 Outstanding Young Educator honoree Kurtis Hewson works with preservice teachers in Canada. He says social networking benefits new teachers in ways that are often overlooked in traditional training and induction programs. Find out why he advises preservice teachers to start networking before they get in the classroom.  “Teaching strategies are alternative, but the students aren’t.”—ASCD’s 2007 Outstanding Young Educator Joris Ray on taking opportunities, no matter how seemingly small, to redefine your work as a leader.  2005 Outstanding Young Educator Pete Hall tells us to “Be the Duck.”     Congratulations! 2010 ASCD Emerging Leader and California ASCD Board Member John Forbes is the new principal of Fresno High School.  California ASCD Board Member Devin Vodicka is the new Superintendent of Vista Unified School District.   Other News California ASCD welcomes two new board members: Laurel Ashlock and Dennis Deets. CASCD also extends a warm welcome to the 2012 Emerging Leaders from California: Matthew Cotton and Annie Brown.  Virginia ASCD would like to thank Betsy Poulsen for her two years of dedication and hard work as president. Under her leadership, VASCD improved communication with members, defined the role and responsibilities of Board members in detail, revised the constitution and bylaws, and recognized the need to influence and inform the state’s general assembly regarding education issues. In this time when so much is going on in education, it is important to recognize someone who is so committed to providing the tools and support to make all children successful. The VASCD board and members applaud you, Betsy!  Last month, we featured the @MentorTeachers and @WorldofLanguages as Twitter success stories. Check out the story from Richard Lange’s perspective on ASCD EDge in his post, Tweeting With Friends.  Check out the ASCD Inservice post Defining Your Own Best Practices, which highlights former OYEA Winner Pete Hall’s ASCD Virtual Conference session. Check Out the Whole Child Summer Professional Devleopment Blog Series Through the end of August, the Whole Child Blog will be running a summer professional development (PD) blog series. This free series provides whole child resources that educators can use to gain further insight on implementing a whole child approach. The first post, "Your Summer PD: Successful School," provides readers with an understanding of what successful school sites are doing adn the steps that they can take to build and sustain a whole child culture.   Thirteen Huffington Post Education, Parenting, and Health Bloggers Joint Post In Support of the Whole Child ASCD Whole Child Programs Director Sean Slade joined Martin J. Blank, Sam Chaltain, Peter DeWitt, John M. Eger, Larry Ferlazzo, Jenifer Fox, Shaun Johnson, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Jennifer Peck, Kate Quarfordt, Jim Taylor, and Jill Vialet to write the blog post entitled “In Support of the Whole Child:” "We are at a crossroads in this nation regarding the direction that public education will take in the coming decades. Do we ffocus on a curriculum that concentrates on a few core subjects or do we gain an appreciation for how public education can develop all aspects of the child to teh benefit of each of them as well as society in general? Do we place test preparation ahead of actually educating our children and test scores ahead of broader and more holistic approaches to evaluating students' competencies? These questions lay at the heart of the current debate about the future of public education in America." Read the full post.   Something to Talk About Cracking the Behavior Code, ASCD Inservice Five Questions for Common Core, ASCD Inservice Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Teaching and Leading Conference Hosted by ASCD Coming to Atlanta in October—ASCD is bringing its Fall Conference on Revolutionizing the Way We Lead and Learn to Atlanta, Ga., October 26–28, 2012. Read the full press release. Free Resources from ASCD Offer Professional Development Opportunities All Summer—This summer ASCD has again made available to educators of all levels a wide variety of free professional development resources. Read the full press release. New Coalition Promotes College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness—A broad new coalition, led by ASCD and joined by more than two dozen national education organizations, has been formed to better advocate for school programs beyond reading, math, and science. Representing a wide array of subject areas, the members of the College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness Coalition are working to advance the concept that a comprehensive education in all core academic subjects, including physical education and health education, is necessary to prepare graduates for college and careers. Read the full press release. AETN, ADE Renew Partnership with ASCD Providing Effective Professional Development to Educators Across Arkansas—The Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) and Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) have renewed their partnership with ASCD to provide effective, digital professional development opportunities for Arkansas educators statewide. Delivered through the ArkansasIDEAS (Internet Delivered Education for Arkansas Schools) professional development website, ASCD’s professional development courses cover topics such as Common Core State Standards implementation, differentiated instruction, integrating technology into classroom instruction, and other critical subjects and competencies. Read the full press release. New DVDs from ASCD Explore Unpacking Common Core State Standards and Effective Supervision—ASCD has created two new professional development DVDs. These new releases feature the groundbreaking work of leading education experts and empower viewers to implement Common Core State Standards using the Understanding by Design® framework and apply the art and science of teaching to effective supervision. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces Free 2012 Summer Boot Camp Webinar Series—ASCD announces the 2012 Summer Boot Camp webinar series. Assisting educators at all levels around the globe prepare for the 2012–13 school year, ASCD’s free summer boot camp comprises nine informative webinars on a variety of topics that shape classrooms worldwide. Read the full press release.             Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:27:26 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-July-2012/blog/6222311/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-07-13T08:27:26Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Nominate or apply for the Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) by August 1. ASCD is awarding $10,000 to educators under the age of 40 who demonstrate excellence in educating the whole child. Learn more and nominate at www.ascd.org/oyea. Nominations for the 2013 award are open until 11:59 p.m. eastern time on August 1.  Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to submit a manuscript to Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider nontheme-related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.   ASCD Governance Updates: Constitutional Changes and Candidates for Office ASCD Members Approve Proposed Constitutional Changes ASCD members voted to approve a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution; the results were certified by the independent audit firm of CliftonLarsonAllenLLP. The approved changes will result in ·         A smaller Board of Directors over the next four years. ·         An increase in a Board member’s term from three years to four years, effective with the 2013 elections. ·         Election of a President by Board members, rather than the general membership, beginning in 2015. ·         The creation of an ASCD Forum, effective by the end of 2012. ·         Dissolution of the Leadership Council, effective immediately. Please contact Becky DeRigge if you have any questions about the vote.   Slate of Candidates for the 2012 ASCD General Membership Election President-Elect (one-year term): Marc Cohen, Md. Nancy Gibson, Ill. Board of Directors (one position available, two-year term): D. William Dodds, Ill. Judith Zimmerman, Ohio Board of Directors (two positions available, three-year terms): Jennifer Lewis, Australia Matt McClure, Ark. Pam Vogel, Iowa   Meet the 2012 ASCD President-Elect Candidates In 2012, ASCD members will elect the President-Elect, who will serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors as an officer of the association: one year as President-Elect, one year as President, and one year as Immediate Past-President. This year, ASCD held the 2012 Meet the President-Elect Candidates Forum at its Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pa. The event allowed interested members to pose questions to each candidate and to get better acquainted with their credentials to make a more informed election decision. Members will vote on candidates from September 1 through October 15, 2012. To help inform your vote, view the video of the session, which begins with opening statements from both candidates and is followed by their responses to each question. A PDF transcript of the forum is also available. In addition, be sure to keep an eye out for the September issue of Education Update, which will include biographical information on the candidates in the General Membership election as well as instructions on how to vote.     Please Welcome New Affiliate Executive Directors Please join ASCD in welcoming the following individuals as they begin their new roles as ASCD affiliate executive directors: Kevin Kjellerup, Florida ASCD Rex Anderson, Nebraska ASCD Patricia Miller, New Mexico ASCD Valerie Kelsey, New York State ASCD Daniel Craig, Oklahoma ASCD Richard Nilsen, Pennsylvania ASCD Lynne Baty, Utah ASCD Please note the following interim contact until the affiliate has a new executive director: Massachusetts ASCD: Cynthia Crimmin, affiliate president   2012 Emerging Leaders Featured in the News Check out these news pieces featuring 2012 ASCD Emerging Leaders: ·         Michael DeCaprio ·         Jason Ellingson ·         Rob Zywicki ·         Krista Rundell   Farewell and Thank You to Outgoing Affiliate Executive Directors It is a time of transition for many affiliates, as new affiliate presidents-elect and presidents began their terms on July 1. At the same time, several affiliate executive directors have recently transitioned out of their leadership roles as well. ASCD would like to take a moment to thank these leaders for their years of work and dedication in the affiliate executive director role, striving to ensure that each child in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. You will be missed! Kim Pearson, Florida ASCD Mary Forte Hayes, Massachusetts ASCD Sue Anderson, Nebraska ASCD Judith Tanner, New Mexico ASCD Tony Mello, New York State ASCD Wayne Beam, Oklahoma ASCD Jim Warnock, Pennsylvania ASCD Amanda Calton, Utah ASCD   Past OYEA Cadre Members Share Their Thoughts on ASCD Inservice 2010 Outstanding Young Educator honoree Kurtis Hewson works with preservice teachers in Canada. He says social networking benefits new teachers in ways that are often overlooked in traditional training and induction programs. Find out why he advises preservice teachers to start networking before they get in the classroom.  “Teaching strategies are alternative, but the students aren’t.”—ASCD’s 2007 Outstanding Young Educator Joris Ray on taking opportunities, no matter how seemingly small, to redefine your work as a leader.  2005 Outstanding Young Educator Pete Hall tells us to “Be the Duck.”     Congratulations! 2010 ASCD Emerging Leader and California ASCD Board Member John Forbes is the new principal of Fresno High School.  California ASCD Board Member Devin Vodicka is the new Superintendent of Vista Unified School District.   Other News California ASCD welcomes two new board members: Laurel Ashlock and Dennis Deets. CASCD also extends a warm welcome to the 2012 Emerging Leaders from California: Matthew Cotton and Annie Brown.  Virginia ASCD would like to thank Betsy Poulsen for her two years of dedication and hard work as president. Under her leadership, VASCD improved communication with members, defined the role and responsibilities of Board members in detail, revised the constitution and bylaws, and recognized the need to influence and inform the state’s general assembly regarding education issues. In this time when so much is going on in education, it is important to recognize someone who is so committed to providing the tools and support to make all children successful. The VASCD board and members applaud you, Betsy!  Last month, we featured the @MentorTeachers and @WorldofLanguages as Twitter success stories. Check out the story from Richard Lange’s perspective on ASCD EDge in his post, Tweeting With Friends.  Check out the ASCD Inservice post Defining Your Own Best Practices, which highlights former OYEA Winner Pete Hall’s ASCD Virtual Conference session. Check Out the Whole Child Summer Professional Devleopment Blog Series Through the end of August, the Whole Child Blog will be running a summer professional development (PD) blog series. This free series provides whole child resources that educators can use to gain further insight on implementing a whole child approach. The first post, "Your Summer PD: Successful School," provides readers with an understanding of what successful school sites are doing adn the steps that they can take to build and sustain a whole child culture.   Thirteen Huffington Post Education, Parenting, and Health Bloggers Joint Post In Support of the Whole Child ASCD Whole Child Programs Director Sean Slade joined Martin J. Blank, Sam Chaltain, Peter DeWitt, John M. Eger, Larry Ferlazzo, Jenifer Fox, Shaun Johnson, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Jennifer Peck, Kate Quarfordt, Jim Taylor, and Jill Vialet to write the blog post entitled “In Support of the Whole Child:” "We are at a crossroads in this nation regarding the direction that public education will take in the coming decades. Do we ffocus on a curriculum that concentrates on a few core subjects or do we gain an appreciation for how public education can develop all aspects of the child to teh benefit of each of them as well as society in general? Do we place test preparation ahead of actually educating our children and test scores ahead of broader and more holistic approaches to evaluating students' competencies? These questions lay at the heart of the current debate about the future of public education in America." Read the full post.   Something to Talk About Cracking the Behavior Code, ASCD Inservice Five Questions for Common Core, ASCD Inservice Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Teaching and Leading Conference Hosted by ASCD Coming to Atlanta in October—ASCD is bringing its Fall Conference on Revolutionizing the Way We Lead and Learn to Atlanta, Ga., October 26–28, 2012. Read the full press release. Free Resources from ASCD Offer Professional Development Opportunities All Summer—This summer ASCD has again made available to educators of all levels a wide variety of free professional development resources. Read the full press release. New Coalition Promotes College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness—A broad new coalition, led by ASCD and joined by more than two dozen national education organizations, has been formed to better advocate for school programs beyond reading, math, and science. Representing a wide array of subject areas, the members of the College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness Coalition are working to advance the concept that a comprehensive education in all core academic subjects, including physical education and health education, is necessary to prepare graduates for college and careers. Read the full press release. AETN, ADE Renew Partnership with ASCD Providing Effective Professional Development to Educators Across Arkansas—The Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) and Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) have renewed their partnership with ASCD to provide effective, digital professional development opportunities for Arkansas educators statewide. Delivered through the ArkansasIDEAS (Internet Delivered Education for Arkansas Schools) professional development website, ASCD’s professional development courses cover topics such as Common Core State Standards implementation, differentiated instruction, integrating technology into classroom instruction, and other critical subjects and competencies. Read the full press release. New DVDs from ASCD Explore Unpacking Common Core State Standards and Effective Supervision—ASCD has created two new professional development DVDs. These new releases feature the groundbreaking work of leading education experts and empower viewers to implement Common Core State Standards using the Understanding by Design® framework and apply the art and science of teaching to effective supervision. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces Free 2012 Summer Boot Camp Webinar Series—ASCD announces the 2012 Summer Boot Camp webinar series. 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To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Write for Educational Leadership.Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider nontheme-related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.       Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   26 Educators Announced As ASCD’s 2012 Class of Emerging Leaders ASCD has selected 26 educators for its 2012 Emerging Leaders Class. The Emerging Leaders program recognizes and prepares young, promising educators to influence education programs, policy, and practice on both the local and national levels. To view the entire list of the 2012 emerging leaders, visit the Emerging Leaders Directory. Congratulations and welcome to this year’s class!   @WorldofLanguage and @MentorTeachers Increase Twitter Following After implementing a few minor changes to their Twitter accounts, Professional Interest Community facilitator Richard Lange and his colleagues Patrick Riley and Steve Kozma were able to increase their Twitter following on two Twitter accounts in just two weeks: a 35% increase for @MentorTeachers and a 600% increase for @WorldofLanguages. The changes they implemented to increase their following included writing a comprehensive user bio, tweeting at least once a day and re-tweeting at least once a day, and engaging in #Follow Friday. Congratulations to Richard, Patrick, and Steve!   2012 OYEA Winner Matt McClure Named To Tech & Learning Magazine’s Big 10 Each year, Tech & Learning Magazine’s editors, reporters, and advisors feature 10 individuals who, in the words of Editorial Director Kevin Hogan, they feel “are making, or have the potential to make, the greatest change in the world of [education technology].” “One of the biggest changes in rural areas is directly correlated with the flattening of the world. Students and individuals in these areas [need] to have access to information and opportunities at the same rate as their urban peers and the ability and requisite skill sets to live anywhere,” said McClure. “Access to technology and a great education can be the great leveling point to ensure that all students, regardless of geography, have the skills, knowledge, and habits of mind to succeed in today’s global economy.” Congratulations to Matt McClure, who is featured on page 45 of the June 2011 issue of Tech & Learning (the digital version is available online with sign-up for a free subscription).   Virginia ASCD Addresses Challenges with Strategic Training Opportunities Many new initiatives are being implemented in Virginia and Virginia ASCD (VASCD) is working hard to provide support and training in the key areas, taking into account the new rigorous standards in mathematics, English, and science, as well as a new teacher and principal evaluation system being implemented throughout the state. The Southwest Conference, to be held in Abingdon, Va., on September 20, themed “Moving Forward with Instructional Tools and Strategies that Work,” will feature Bruce Oliver and Christopher Gareis as presenters. The VASCD Annual Conference in Williamsburg, Va. Nov. 28–30 is themed “Taking on Challenges in Teaching, Learning, and Leading.” Conference presenters include Heidi Hayes-Jacobs; Seth Kahan, author of Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out; Anthony Muhammad, co-author of The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach–Transforming Schools at Every Level; Diana Laufenberg; and Andy Hargreaves, co-author of Professional Capital. With these presenters and 45 concurrent sessions, VASCD hopes to give educators the key tools and knowledge to move forward in their schools. For more information, visit the VASCD website.   Congratulations! ASCD 2011 Emerging Leader Bryan O'Black was recently promoted to Director for Curriculum and Technology at Shaler Area School District. Brian was also just named Annual Conference Chair for the 2013 Pennsylvania ASCD Conference in November 2013.  Marianne True, New Hampshire ASCD board member and past president, Plymouth State University (PSU) ASCD Student Chapter faculty advisor, and New Hampshire Journal of Education editor, has just been named Chair of the Elementary Education and Childhood Studies Department at PSU.  After 11 years in the classroom, 2010 Emerging Leader Jason Flom will work for QED Foundation as the Director of Learning Platforms, managing their Neurodevelopmental Framework for Learning initiative.  Other News ·         Diane Jackson completed her term as Oklahoma ASCD president on May 31, 2012. Pamela King is now Oklahoma ASCD president as of June 1, 2012.   ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference Archives Available ASCD conducted its second Whole Child Virtual Conference in May. This free conference showcases schools, authors, and research about implementing a whole child approach for a worldwide audience. View and share archived session recordings, presenter handouts, and related resources at www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference. A number of ASCD constituent group leaders shared their expertise and school examples: ·         ASCD Board of Directors member Pasi Sahlberg as part of a European panel on The Whole Child Around the World ·         Healthy School Communities mentor site Iroquois Ridge High School in Supporting the Whole Child: The Journey of the Parent Engagement Program ·         2011 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Quest Early College High School with a student panel discussing the Whole Child Tenets ·         Healthy School Communities mentor site Batesville Community School Corporation in The ABCs of Educating the Whole Child ·         2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Byrne Creek Secondary School shared The Byrne Creek Story ·         ASCD Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community facilitator Mike Rulon in How to Make Classrooms Responsive to the Whole Child ·         2012 Outstanding Young Educator Matt McClure in One District’s Plan to Educate the Whole Child ·         ASCD Emerging Leader Jason Flom in More Brains, Less Brawn ·         2012 Outstanding Young Educator Liliana Aguas in Healthy School Farm and Garden: LeConte Elementary School      Something to Talk About What Would a School Designed By Your Brain Look Like? by Judy Willis Why Teachers and Administrators Should Team Up for Walkthroughs with Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey PBL & Common Core Tip: Instructional Time for Teaching Thinking Skills by Andrew Miller Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief. Association News The Essential Ed-Tech Guide to Flipping Any Classroom Now Available from ASCD and ISTE—ASCD and ISTE are pleased to announce the release of Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Authored by pioneering educators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, and copublished by ASCD and ISTE, this practical guidebook introduces readers to the “how-to” and “why” behind the flipped-classroom approach. Read the full press release. ASCD’s Summer Showcase Institutes Focus on Improving High-Poverty Schools, Rigor, and Closing Achievement Gaps—ASCD has gathered a team of renowned education experts to lead intensive, four-day Summer Showcase Institutes this July in Baltimore, Md., and Denver, Colo. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces New PD Online® Courses Addressing Differentiated Instruction, Common Core State Standards, and More—ASCD announces the release of seven new PD Online® courses for educators focused on differentiated instruction, Common Core State Standards implementation, and teaching students in high-poverty communities. Read the full press release. ASCD’s Summer Reading List Provides Opportunities Galore for Teachers and Administrators—ASCD has compiled a summer reading list for administrators, teacher leaders, and classroom educators interested in low-cost, high-impact professional development. Read the full press release. ASCD Expands Support for Common Core State Standards Implementation with New Professional Development Resources and Events—ASCD has expanded support for Common Core State Standards implementation with a new two-day institute series and a PD In Focus® channel dedicated exclusively to the topic. Read the full press release.   Leader to Leader (L2L) News: June 2012  ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Write for Educational Leadership.Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider nontheme-related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.       Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   26 Educators Announced As ASCD’s 2012 Class of Emerging Leaders ASCD has selected 26 educators for its 2012 Emerging Leaders Class. The Emerging Leaders program recognizes and prepares young, promising educators to influence education programs, policy, and practice on both the local and national levels. To view the entire list of the 2012 emerging leaders, visit the Emerging Leaders Directory. Congratulations and welcome to this year’s class!   @WorldofLanguage and @MentorTeachers Increase Twitter Following After implementing a few minor changes to their Twitter accounts, Professional Interest Community facilitator Richard Lange and his colleagues Patrick Riley and Steve Kozma were able to increase their Twitter following on two Twitter accounts in just two weeks: a 35% increase for @MentorTeachers and a 600% increase for @WorldofLanguages. The changes they implemented to increase their following included writing a comprehensive user bio, tweeting at least once a day and re-tweeting at least once a day, and engaging in #Follow Friday. Congratulations to Richard, Patrick, and Steve!   2012 OYEA Winner Matt McClure Named To Tech & Learning Magazine’s Big 10 Each year, Tech & Learning Magazine’s editors, reporters, and advisors feature 10 individuals who, in the words of Editorial Director Kevin Hogan, they feel “are making, or have the potential to make, the greatest change in the world of [education technology].” “One of the biggest changes in rural areas is directly correlated with the flattening of the world. Students and individuals in these areas [need] to have access to information and opportunities at the same rate as their urban peers and the ability and requisite skill sets to live anywhere,” said McClure. “Access to technology and a great education can be the great leveling point to ensure that all students, regardless of geography, have the skills, knowledge, and habits of mind to succeed in today’s global economy.” Congratulations to Matt McClure, who is featured on page 45 of the June 2011 issue of Tech & Learning (the digital version is available online with sign-up for a free subscription).   Virginia ASCD Addresses Challenges with Strategic Training Opportunities Many new initiatives are being implemented in Virginia and Virginia ASCD (VASCD) is working hard to provide support and training in the key areas, taking into account the new rigorous standards in mathematics, English, and science, as well as a new teacher and principal evaluation system being implemented throughout the state. The Southwest Conference, to be held in Abingdon, Va., on September 20, themed “Moving Forward with Instructional Tools and Strategies that Work,” will feature Bruce Oliver and Christopher Gareis as presenters. The VASCD Annual Conference in Williamsburg, Va. Nov. 28–30 is themed “Taking on Challenges in Teaching, Learning, and Leading.” Conference presenters include Heidi Hayes-Jacobs; Seth Kahan, author of Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out; Anthony Muhammad, co-author of The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach–Transforming Schools at Every Level; Diana Laufenberg; and Andy Hargreaves, co-author of Professional Capital. With these presenters and 45 concurrent sessions, VASCD hopes to give educators the key tools and knowledge to move forward in their schools. For more information, visit the VASCD website.   Congratulations! ASCD 2011 Emerging Leader Bryan O'Black was recently promoted to Director for Curriculum and Technology at Shaler Area School District. Brian was also just named Annual Conference Chair for the 2013 Pennsylvania ASCD Conference in November 2013.  Marianne True, New Hampshire ASCD board member and past president, Plymouth State University (PSU) ASCD Student Chapter faculty advisor, and New Hampshire Journal of Education editor, has just been named Chair of the Elementary Education and Childhood Studies Department at PSU.  After 11 years in the classroom, 2010 Emerging Leader Jason Flom will work for QED Foundation as the Director of Learning Platforms, managing their Neurodevelopmental Framework for Learning initiative.  Other News ·         Diane Jackson completed her term as Oklahoma ASCD president on May 31, 2012. Pamela King is now Oklahoma ASCD president as of June 1, 2012.   ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference Archives Available ASCD conducted its second Whole Child Virtual Conference in May. This free conference showcases schools, authors, and research about implementing a whole child approach for a worldwide audience. View and share archived session recordings, presenter handouts, and related resources at www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference. A number of ASCD constituent group leaders shared their expertise and school examples: ·         ASCD Board of Directors member Pasi Sahlberg as part of a European panel on The Whole Child Around the World ·         Healthy School Communities mentor site Iroquois Ridge High School in Supporting the Whole Child: The Journey of the Parent Engagement Program ·         2011 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Quest Early College High School with a student panel discussing the Whole Child Tenets ·         Healthy School Communities mentor site Batesville Community School Corporation in The ABCs of Educating the Whole Child ·         2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Byrne Creek Secondary School shared The Byrne Creek Story ·         ASCD Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community facilitator Mike Rulon in How to Make Classrooms Responsive to the Whole Child ·         2012 Outstanding Young Educator Matt McClure in One District’s Plan to Educate the Whole Child ·         ASCD Emerging Leader Jason Flom in More Brains, Less Brawn ·         2012 Outstanding Young Educator Liliana Aguas in Healthy School Farm and Garden: LeConte Elementary School      Something to Talk About What Would a School Designed By Your Brain Look Like? by Judy Willis Why Teachers and Administrators Should Team Up for Walkthroughs with Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey PBL & Common Core Tip: Instructional Time for Teaching Thinking Skills by Andrew Miller Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief. Association News The Essential Ed-Tech Guide to Flipping Any Classroom Now Available from ASCD and ISTE—ASCD and ISTE are pleased to announce the release of Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Authored by pioneering educators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, and copublished by ASCD and ISTE, this practical guidebook introduces readers to the “how-to” and “why” behind the flipped-classroom approach. Read the full press release. ASCD’s Summer Showcase Institutes Focus on Improving High-Poverty Schools, Rigor, and Closing Achievement Gaps—ASCD has gathered a team of renowned education experts to lead intensive, four-day Summer Showcase Institutes this July in Baltimore, Md., and Denver, Colo. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces New PD Online® Courses Addressing Differentiated Instruction, Common Core State Standards, and More—ASCD announces the release of seven new PD Online® courses for educators focused on differentiated instruction, Common Core State Standards implementation, and teaching students in high-poverty communities. Read the full press release. ASCD’s Summer Reading List Provides Opportunities Galore for Teachers and Administrators—ASCD has compiled a summer reading list for administrators, teacher leaders, and classroom educators interested in low-cost, high-impact professional development. Read the full press release. ASCD Expands Support for Common Core State Standards Implementation with New Professional Development Resources and Events—ASCD has expanded support for Common Core State Standards implementation with a new two-day institute series and a PD In Focus® channel dedicated exclusively to the topic. Read the full press release. Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:14:24 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_Leader-to-Leader-L2L-News-June-2012/blog/6153019/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-06-07T20:14:24Z ASCD EDge   Leader to Leader (L2L) News: June 2012  ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Speak out on sequestration. An education crisis is looming with the potential to disrupt services to 7.5 million students and threaten 90,000 educator jobs. Read more and take action on ascd.org. Write for Educational Leadership.Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider nontheme-related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.       Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Leader Community   26 Educators Announced As ASCD’s 2012 Class of Emerging Leaders ASCD has selected 26 educators for its 2012 Emerging Leaders Class. The Emerging Leaders program recognizes and prepares young, promising educators to influence education programs, policy, and practice on both the local and national levels. To view the entire list of the 2012 emerging leaders, visit the Emerging Leaders Directory. Congratulations and welcome to this year’s class!   @WorldofLanguage and @MentorTeachers Increase Twitter Following After implementing a few minor changes to their Twitter accounts, Professional Interest Community facilitator Richard Lange and his colleagues Patrick Riley and Steve Kozma were able to increase their Twitter following on two Twitter accounts in just two weeks: a 35% increase for @MentorTeachers and a 600% increase for @WorldofLanguages. The changes they implemented to increase their following included writing a comprehensive user bio, tweeting at least once a day and re-tweeting at least once a day, and engaging in #Follow Friday. Congratulations to Richard, Patrick, and Steve!   2012 OYEA Winner Matt McClure Named To Tech & Learning Magazine’s Big 10 Each year, Tech & Learning Magazine’s editors, reporters, and advisors feature 10 individuals who, in the words of Editorial Director Kevin Hogan, they feel “are making, or have the potential to make, the greatest change in the world of [education technology].” “One of the biggest changes in rural areas is directly correlated with the flattening of the world. Students and individuals in these areas [need] to have access to information and opportunities at the same rate as their urban peers and the ability and requisite skill sets to live anywhere,” said McClure. “Access to technology and a great education can be the great leveling point to ensure that all students, regardless of geography, have the skills, knowledge, and habits of mind to succeed in today’s global economy.” Congratulations to Matt McClure, who is featured on page 45 of the June 2011 issue of Tech & Learning (the digital version is available online with sign-up for a free subscription).   Virginia ASCD Addresses Challenges with Strategic Training Opportunities Many new initiatives are being implemented in Virginia and Virginia ASCD (VASCD) is working hard to provide support and training in the key areas, taking into account the new rigorous standards in mathematics, English, and science, as well as a new teacher and principal evaluation system being implemented throughout the state. The Southwest Conference, to be held in Abingdon, Va., on September 20, themed “Moving Forward with Instructional Tools and Strategies that Work,” will feature Bruce Oliver and Christopher Gareis as presenters. The VASCD Annual Conference in Williamsburg, Va. Nov. 28–30 is themed “Taking on Challenges in Teaching, Learning, and Leading.” Conference presenters include Heidi Hayes-Jacobs; Seth Kahan, author of Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out; Anthony Muhammad, co-author of The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach–Transforming Schools at Every Level; Diana Laufenberg; and Andy Hargreaves, co-author of Professional Capital. With these presenters and 45 concurrent sessions, VASCD hopes to give educators the key tools and knowledge to move forward in their schools. For more information, visit the VASCD website.   Congratulations! ASCD 2011 Emerging Leader Bryan O'Black was recently promoted to Director for Curriculum and Technology at Shaler Area School District. Brian was also just named Annual Conference Chair for the 2013 Pennsylvania ASCD Conference in November 2013.  Marianne True, New Hampshire ASCD board member and past president, Plymouth State University (PSU) ASCD Student Chapter faculty advisor, and New Hampshire Journal of Education editor, has just been named Chair of the Elementary Education and Childhood Studies Department at PSU.  After 11 years in the classroom, 2010 Emerging Leader Jason Flom will work for QED Foundation as the Director of Learning Platforms, managing their Neurodevelopmental Framework for Learning initiative.  Other News ·         Diane Jackson completed her term as Oklahoma ASCD president on May 31, 2012. Pamela King is now Oklahoma ASCD president as of June 1, 2012.   ASCD Whole Child Virtual Conference Archives Available ASCD conducted its second Whole Child Virtual Conference in May. This free conference showcases schools, authors, and research about implementing a whole child approach for a worldwide audience. View and share archived session recordings, presenter handouts, and related resources at www.ascd.org/wcvirtualconference. A number of ASCD constituent group leaders shared their expertise and school examples: ·         ASCD Board of Directors member Pasi Sahlberg as part of a European panel on The Whole Child Around the World ·         Healthy School Communities mentor site Iroquois Ridge High School in Supporting the Whole Child: The Journey of the Parent Engagement Program ·         2011 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Quest Early College High School with a student panel discussing the Whole Child Tenets ·         Healthy School Communities mentor site Batesville Community School Corporation in The ABCs of Educating the Whole Child ·         2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Byrne Creek Secondary School shared The Byrne Creek Story ·         ASCD Assessment for Learning Professional Interest Community facilitator Mike Rulon in How to Make Classrooms Responsive to the Whole Child ·         2012 Outstanding Young Educator Matt McClure in One District’s Plan to Educate the Whole Child ·         ASCD Emerging Leader Jason Flom in More Brains, Less Brawn ·         2012 Outstanding Young Educator Liliana Aguas in Healthy School Farm and Garden: LeConte Elementary School      Something to Talk About What Would a School Designed By Your Brain Look Like? by Judy Willis Why Teachers and Administrators Should Team Up for Walkthroughs with Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey PBL & Common Core Tip: Instructional Time for Teaching Thinking Skills by Andrew Miller Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge® Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief. Association News The Essential Ed-Tech Guide to Flipping Any Classroom Now Available from ASCD and ISTE—ASCD and ISTE are pleased to announce the release of Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Authored by pioneering educators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, and copublished by ASCD and ISTE, this practical guidebook introduces readers to the “how-to” and “why” behind the flipped-classroom approach. Read the full press release. ASCD’s Summer Showcase Institutes Focus on Improving High-Poverty Schools, Rigor, and Closing Achievement Gaps—ASCD has gathered a team of renowned education experts to lead intensive, four-day Summer Showcase Institutes this July in Baltimore, Md., and Denver, Colo. Read the full press release. ASCD Announces New PD Online® Courses Addressing Differentiated Instruction, Common Core State Standards, and More—ASCD announces the release of seven new PD Online® courses for educators focused on differentiated instruction, Common Core State Standards implementation, and teaching students in high-poverty communities. Read the full press release. ASCD’s Summer Reading List Provides Opportunities Galore for Teachers and Administrators—ASCD has compiled a summer reading list for administrators, teacher leaders, and classroom educators interested in low-cost, high-impact professional development. Read the full press release. ASCD Expands Support for Common Core State Standards Implementation with New Professional Development Resources and Events—ASCD has expanded support for Common Core State Standards implementation with a new two-day institute series and a PD In Focus® channel dedicated exclusively to the topic. Read the full press release. nonadult false Leader to Leader (L2L) News: June 2012 text blog 354 1 5.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 1 0 6153019 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_Leader-to-Leader-L2L-News-May-2012/blog/6062975/127586.html   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Join us for the Whole Child Virtual Conference until May 11, 2012. This event is free to all who wish to attend, and registration is still available for Thursday and Friday sessions.   Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals until May 15 for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future”. Visit the ASCD website for more information and to access the online submission form.   Vote on the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution between now and June 2. Please go to www.ascd.org/vote and read a letter from Immediate Past President Paul Healey, which summarizes the proposed changes, and a PDF of the current Constitution and the proposed new language.  Then log in with your Member ID and password and vote whether or not to approve the changes. If you need your Member ID or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) and then press 1. If you have any questions, please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org.  Write for Educational Leadership.Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme-related articles for Special Topics.View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.     OYEA Winners and Honorees Featured in Educational Leadership for 10 Year Program Anniversary This month, in honor of the 10th anniversary of ASCD’s Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) program, we invited past winners and honorees to share their stories about the first time they felt like a real teacher “Tell Me About…” column for the May 2012 issue of Educational Leadership themed “Supporting Beginning Teachers.” From “Air Quotes and Empowerment” to “Resilience in Response to Tragedy,” these stories are funny, powerful, moving, and inspiring. Read their stories online and in pages 92–95 of your print copy of EL.   New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Shares Reflections From Common Core Symposium As a result of the successful recent symposium entitled The Common Core Standards: Implications for Higher Education (PDF), New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Marie Adair wrote a white paper synthesizing the ideas and concepts presented during the symposium.  The document, Re-Envisioning the Teaching Profession:  A Collective Call to Action (PDF), provides challenges for K–16 educators in determining the changes and the innovations that will need to be created in teacher preparation programs to advance our profession.  Other resources from the symposium are available on the New Jersey ASCD website.   Events ·         California ASCD is hosting an Educator Appreciation Day on May 11. ·         Hawaii ASCD is collaborating with the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and the Hawaii Department of Education to cosponsor a two-day conference at the end of May with Art Costa on “Habits of Mind.” ·         Minnesota ASCD is partnering with the state department of education to host a Standards Camp. ·         Tennessee ASCD presents “Professional Learning Communities: What are They and How do They Work?” with Bob Eaker and Janel Keating. Other News California ASCD welcomes Chief Academic Officer and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services for Central Unified School District Laurel Ashlock, and Program Manager for CTAP Region 10 Dennis Deets to the affiliate board of directors. OYEA Honoree Co-Authors Book on the Common Core State Standards 2011 OYEA Honoree Maureen Connolly and  Vicky Giouroukakis of Molloy College have recently co-authored the book, Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12: Meeting the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom.  In this book, they discuss the benefits of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language, and they provide lessons from the field for grades 6–12 that effectively guide students in meeting these standards.  “The CCSS have the potential to allow divergent thinking among teachers and students alike because they are not about prescribing instruction, but rather they are about ensuring that our instruction and students’ learning experiences are rigorous and purposeful,” said Connolly. “ Vicky and I designed our book with a combination of theoretical and practical perspectives to guide and inspire teachers as they plan for instruction.” Congratulations, Maureen!   OYEA Honoree and Emerging Leader to be Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance, 2009 OYEA Honoree, 2010 Emerging Leader, and chief middle schools officer in the Houston school district, has been chosen as the next superintendent in Baltimore County. “We were extremely impressed with Dr. Dance during his interviews, with his poise and his maturity. His answers showed a depth of understanding. His references and prior experience were stellar,” said Baltimore County School Board President Lawrence Schmidt. In an open letter published in the Baltimore Sun, Dance pledged his commitment to the new position: “Education is my calling, not just a career. I've always known that this would be my life's work, and it has been professionally and personally rewarding. To quote one of my heroes, Teddy Roosevelt, “Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” As your next superintendent, I pledge to the residents of Baltimore County to devote every waking minute to your children and giving them the excellent education they deserve.” Congratulations to Dallas!   Director of Constituent Services Publishes Third Book Director of Constituent Services Walter McKenzie has just published his third book, Intelligence Quest: Project-Based Learning and Multiple Intelligences. The book, published through the International Society for Technology in Education, offers a fresh look at multiple intelligences theory and how it can be applied to successful implementation of technology in teaching and learning. McKenzie has been teaching and administering online communities of practice since 1997, through his work with Classroom Connect, Pepperdine University and the University of Mary Washington. He has developed and led online global symposia and conferences through the Capital Region Society for Technology in Education, and has served as the head of departments of technology and information systems for the public schools of Salem, Massachusetts, Northborough and Southborough, Mass., and Arlington, Va. McKenzie will have been with ASCD for two years this July; his previous published titles are Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology (ISTE, 2003, 2nd ed.) and Standards-Based Lessons for Tech-Savvy Students: A Multiple Intelligences Approach (Linworth, 2005).   Throughout May on www.wholechildeducation.org: Mental Health A child’s mental health is influenced by her biology, social and physical environment, and behavior, as well as the availability of services. Good emotional and behavioral health enhances a child’s sense of well-being, supports satisfying social relationships at home and with peers, and facilitates achievement of full academic potential. Research shows that one in five children and adolescents ages 9 to 17 experiences symptoms of mental health problems that cause some level of impairment. However, fewer than 20 percent of those who need mental health services receive them. But, being mentally healthy is not just about emotional and behavioral difficulties. It’s also about being mentally strong and resilient and having the skills and supports to deal with stressful issues when they arise. In a nationally representative survey of 12- to 17-year-old youths about their traumatic experiences, 39 percent reported witnessing violence, 17 percent reported physical assault, and 8 percent reported a lifetime prevalence of sexual assault. Just as one can be physically healthy or unhealthy, one can also be mentally healthy or unhealthy. Join us throughout May as we discuss the importance of each child, in each school and in each community, being socially, emotionally, and mentally healthy. Download the Whole Child Podcast to hear from Erica Ahmed, director of public education for Mental Health America; Jo Mason, acting national business manager and national professional product development manager for whole child partner Principals Australia Institute and MindMatters, Australia; and Philip C. Rodkin, associate professor of child development in the Departments of Educational Psychology and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on promoting good mental health for children.   Something to Talk About May 2012 issue of Educational Leadership: Supporting Beginning Teachers Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson, ASCD Inservice What You Need to Know About Learning Styles,ASCD Inservice Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News  ASCD Welcomes New Staff to Marketing and Member Services Team—ASCD welcomes two new staff members to the association’s Marketing and Member Services Team. Bonnie Kasander has been appointed as ASCD’s new director of membership, and James Mahoney has been appointed the association’s new director of marketing. Read the full press release.  ASCD’s 2012 Summer Conference in St. Louis Helps Educators Revolutionize the Way We Teach and Learn—ASCD will present its 2012 Summer Conference in St. Louis, Mo., on July 1–3, 2012. This conference's more than 140 sessions will focus on the theme, “Revolutionizing the Way We Teach and Learn” and will be directed by leading education experts. Read the full press release. ASCD Makes Catalog of 300 Professional Development E-Books Available Through Barnes & Noble—ASCD has made its entire professional development e-book catalog of more than 300 titles available to Barnes & Noble NOOK Study users. Read the full press release. ASCD Invites Educators Worldwide to Attend Free Whole Child Virtual Conference—ASCD invites educators from around the globe to participate in this year’s free Whole Child Virtual Conference, held May 3–11, 2012. This year’s theme is “Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,” and the event focuses on highlighting the great work of ASCD-associated schools, providing a forum in which educators who implement the whole child approach to education can learn from one another and presenters, and expanding awareness of a whole child approach to educators worldwide. Read the full press release. North Carolina School System Partners with ASCD to Achieve Professional Development Goals—Johnston County Schools (JCS), located in central North Carolina, has selected ASCD as its new professional development partner. JCS is one of the largest school systems in the state, serving more than 32,000 students across 44 schools. Read the full press release. ASCD Names Elected Leaders, Presents Affiliate Awards—ASCD recently announced Debra A. Hill, associate professor at Argosy University, as the association’s new President. Hill took office at the conclusion of ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 26. In other association news, ASCD announced new members of the ASCD Board of Directors and presented its 2012 Area of Excellence Awards to outstanding affiliate organizations. This year, Rhode Island ASCD and Virginia ASCD were recognized for their outstanding advocacy work, and North Carolina ASCD was recognized for Overall Excellence. Read the full press release.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Join us for the Whole Child Virtual Conference until May 11, 2012. This event is free to all who wish to attend, and registration is still available for Thursday and Friday sessions.   Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals until May 15 for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future”. Visit the ASCD website for more information and to access the online submission form.   Vote on the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution between now and June 2. Please go to www.ascd.org/vote and read a letter from Immediate Past President Paul Healey, which summarizes the proposed changes, and a PDF of the current Constitution and the proposed new language.  Then log in with your Member ID and password and vote whether or not to approve the changes. If you need your Member ID or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) and then press 1. If you have any questions, please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org.  Write for Educational Leadership.Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme-related articles for Special Topics.View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.     OYEA Winners and Honorees Featured in Educational Leadership for 10 Year Program Anniversary This month, in honor of the 10th anniversary of ASCD’s Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) program, we invited past winners and honorees to share their stories about the first time they felt like a real teacher “Tell Me About…” column for the May 2012 issue of Educational Leadership themed “Supporting Beginning Teachers.” From “Air Quotes and Empowerment” to “Resilience in Response to Tragedy,” these stories are funny, powerful, moving, and inspiring. Read their stories online and in pages 92–95 of your print copy of EL.   New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Shares Reflections From Common Core Symposium As a result of the successful recent symposium entitled The Common Core Standards: Implications for Higher Education (PDF), New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Marie Adair wrote a white paper synthesizing the ideas and concepts presented during the symposium.  The document, Re-Envisioning the Teaching Profession:  A Collective Call to Action (PDF), provides challenges for K–16 educators in determining the changes and the innovations that will need to be created in teacher preparation programs to advance our profession.  Other resources from the symposium are available on the New Jersey ASCD website.   Events ·         California ASCD is hosting an Educator Appreciation Day on May 11. ·         Hawaii ASCD is collaborating with the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and the Hawaii Department of Education to cosponsor a two-day conference at the end of May with Art Costa on “Habits of Mind.” ·         Minnesota ASCD is partnering with the state department of education to host a Standards Camp. ·         Tennessee ASCD presents “Professional Learning Communities: What are They and How do They Work?” with Bob Eaker and Janel Keating. Other News California ASCD welcomes Chief Academic Officer and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services for Central Unified School District Laurel Ashlock, and Program Manager for CTAP Region 10 Dennis Deets to the affiliate board of directors. OYEA Honoree Co-Authors Book on the Common Core State Standards 2011 OYEA Honoree Maureen Connolly and  Vicky Giouroukakis of Molloy College have recently co-authored the book, Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12: Meeting the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom.  In this book, they discuss the benefits of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language, and they provide lessons from the field for grades 6–12 that effectively guide students in meeting these standards.  “The CCSS have the potential to allow divergent thinking among teachers and students alike because they are not about prescribing instruction, but rather they are about ensuring that our instruction and students’ learning experiences are rigorous and purposeful,” said Connolly. “ Vicky and I designed our book with a combination of theoretical and practical perspectives to guide and inspire teachers as they plan for instruction.” Congratulations, Maureen!   OYEA Honoree and Emerging Leader to be Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance, 2009 OYEA Honoree, 2010 Emerging Leader, and chief middle schools officer in the Houston school district, has been chosen as the next superintendent in Baltimore County. “We were extremely impressed with Dr. Dance during his interviews, with his poise and his maturity. His answers showed a depth of understanding. His references and prior experience were stellar,” said Baltimore County School Board President Lawrence Schmidt. In an open letter published in the Baltimore Sun, Dance pledged his commitment to the new position: “Education is my calling, not just a career. I've always known that this would be my life's work, and it has been professionally and personally rewarding. To quote one of my heroes, Teddy Roosevelt, “Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” As your next superintendent, I pledge to the residents of Baltimore County to devote every waking minute to your children and giving them the excellent education they deserve.” Congratulations to Dallas!   Director of Constituent Services Publishes Third Book Director of Constituent Services Walter McKenzie has just published his third book, Intelligence Quest: Project-Based Learning and Multiple Intelligences. The book, published through the International Society for Technology in Education, offers a fresh look at multiple intelligences theory and how it can be applied to successful implementation of technology in teaching and learning. McKenzie has been teaching and administering online communities of practice since 1997, through his work with Classroom Connect, Pepperdine University and the University of Mary Washington. He has developed and led online global symposia and conferences through the Capital Region Society for Technology in Education, and has served as the head of departments of technology and information systems for the public schools of Salem, Massachusetts, Northborough and Southborough, Mass., and Arlington, Va. McKenzie will have been with ASCD for two years this July; his previous published titles are Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology (ISTE, 2003, 2nd ed.) and Standards-Based Lessons for Tech-Savvy Students: A Multiple Intelligences Approach (Linworth, 2005).   Throughout May on www.wholechildeducation.org: Mental Health A child’s mental health is influenced by her biology, social and physical environment, and behavior, as well as the availability of services. Good emotional and behavioral health enhances a child’s sense of well-being, supports satisfying social relationships at home and with peers, and facilitates achievement of full academic potential. Research shows that one in five children and adolescents ages 9 to 17 experiences symptoms of mental health problems that cause some level of impairment. However, fewer than 20 percent of those who need mental health services receive them. But, being mentally healthy is not just about emotional and behavioral difficulties. It’s also about being mentally strong and resilient and having the skills and supports to deal with stressful issues when they arise. In a nationally representative survey of 12- to 17-year-old youths about their traumatic experiences, 39 percent reported witnessing violence, 17 percent reported physical assault, and 8 percent reported a lifetime prevalence of sexual assault. Just as one can be physically healthy or unhealthy, one can also be mentally healthy or unhealthy. Join us throughout May as we discuss the importance of each child, in each school and in each community, being socially, emotionally, and mentally healthy. Download the Whole Child Podcast to hear from Erica Ahmed, director of public education for Mental Health America; Jo Mason, acting national business manager and national professional product development manager for whole child partner Principals Australia Institute and MindMatters, Australia; and Philip C. Rodkin, associate professor of child development in the Departments of Educational Psychology and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on promoting good mental health for children.   Something to Talk About May 2012 issue of Educational Leadership: Supporting Beginning Teachers Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson, ASCD Inservice What You Need to Know About Learning Styles,ASCD Inservice Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News  ASCD Welcomes New Staff to Marketing and Member Services Team—ASCD welcomes two new staff members to the association’s Marketing and Member Services Team. Bonnie Kasander has been appointed as ASCD’s new director of membership, and James Mahoney has been appointed the association’s new director of marketing. Read the full press release.  ASCD’s 2012 Summer Conference in St. Louis Helps Educators Revolutionize the Way We Teach and Learn—ASCD will present its 2012 Summer Conference in St. Louis, Mo., on July 1–3, 2012. This conference's more than 140 sessions will focus on the theme, “Revolutionizing the Way We Teach and Learn” and will be directed by leading education experts. Read the full press release. ASCD Makes Catalog of 300 Professional Development E-Books Available Through Barnes & Noble—ASCD has made its entire professional development e-book catalog of more than 300 titles available to Barnes & Noble NOOK Study users. Read the full press release. ASCD Invites Educators Worldwide to Attend Free Whole Child Virtual Conference—ASCD invites educators from around the globe to participate in this year’s free Whole Child Virtual Conference, held May 3–11, 2012. This year’s theme is “Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,” and the event focuses on highlighting the great work of ASCD-associated schools, providing a forum in which educators who implement the whole child approach to education can learn from one another and presenters, and expanding awareness of a whole child approach to educators worldwide. Read the full press release. North Carolina School System Partners with ASCD to Achieve Professional Development Goals—Johnston County Schools (JCS), located in central North Carolina, has selected ASCD as its new professional development partner. JCS is one of the largest school systems in the state, serving more than 32,000 students across 44 schools. Read the full press release. ASCD Names Elected Leaders, Presents Affiliate Awards—ASCD recently announced Debra A. Hill, associate professor at Argosy University, as the association’s new President. Hill took office at the conclusion of ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 26. In other association news, ASCD announced new members of the ASCD Board of Directors and presented its 2012 Area of Excellence Awards to outstanding affiliate organizations. This year, Rhode Island ASCD and Virginia ASCD were recognized for their outstanding advocacy work, and North Carolina ASCD was recognized for Overall Excellence. Read the full press release. Wed, 09 May 2012 17:42:44 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_Leader-to-Leader-L2L-News-May-2012/blog/6062975/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-05-09T17:42:44Z ASCD EDge   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Join us for the Whole Child Virtual Conference until May 11, 2012. This event is free to all who wish to attend, and registration is still available for Thursday and Friday sessions.   Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals until May 15 for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future”. Visit the ASCD website for more information and to access the online submission form.   Vote on the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution between now and June 2. Please go to www.ascd.org/vote and read a letter from Immediate Past President Paul Healey, which summarizes the proposed changes, and a PDF of the current Constitution and the proposed new language.  Then log in with your Member ID and password and vote whether or not to approve the changes. If you need your Member ID or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) and then press 1. If you have any questions, please contact ASCD Governance Director Becky DeRigge at bderigge@ascd.org.  Write for Educational Leadership.Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme-related articles for Special Topics.View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.     OYEA Winners and Honorees Featured in Educational Leadership for 10 Year Program Anniversary This month, in honor of the 10th anniversary of ASCD’s Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) program, we invited past winners and honorees to share their stories about the first time they felt like a real teacher “Tell Me About…” column for the May 2012 issue of Educational Leadership themed “Supporting Beginning Teachers.” From “Air Quotes and Empowerment” to “Resilience in Response to Tragedy,” these stories are funny, powerful, moving, and inspiring. Read their stories online and in pages 92–95 of your print copy of EL.   New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Shares Reflections From Common Core Symposium As a result of the successful recent symposium entitled The Common Core Standards: Implications for Higher Education (PDF), New Jersey ASCD Executive Director Marie Adair wrote a white paper synthesizing the ideas and concepts presented during the symposium.  The document, Re-Envisioning the Teaching Profession:  A Collective Call to Action (PDF), provides challenges for K–16 educators in determining the changes and the innovations that will need to be created in teacher preparation programs to advance our profession.  Other resources from the symposium are available on the New Jersey ASCD website.   Events ·         California ASCD is hosting an Educator Appreciation Day on May 11. ·         Hawaii ASCD is collaborating with the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and the Hawaii Department of Education to cosponsor a two-day conference at the end of May with Art Costa on “Habits of Mind.” ·         Minnesota ASCD is partnering with the state department of education to host a Standards Camp. ·         Tennessee ASCD presents “Professional Learning Communities: What are They and How do They Work?” with Bob Eaker and Janel Keating. Other News California ASCD welcomes Chief Academic Officer and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services for Central Unified School District Laurel Ashlock, and Program Manager for CTAP Region 10 Dennis Deets to the affiliate board of directors. OYEA Honoree Co-Authors Book on the Common Core State Standards 2011 OYEA Honoree Maureen Connolly and  Vicky Giouroukakis of Molloy College have recently co-authored the book, Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12: Meeting the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom.  In this book, they discuss the benefits of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language, and they provide lessons from the field for grades 6–12 that effectively guide students in meeting these standards.  “The CCSS have the potential to allow divergent thinking among teachers and students alike because they are not about prescribing instruction, but rather they are about ensuring that our instruction and students’ learning experiences are rigorous and purposeful,” said Connolly. “ Vicky and I designed our book with a combination of theoretical and practical perspectives to guide and inspire teachers as they plan for instruction.” Congratulations, Maureen!   OYEA Honoree and Emerging Leader to be Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance, 2009 OYEA Honoree, 2010 Emerging Leader, and chief middle schools officer in the Houston school district, has been chosen as the next superintendent in Baltimore County. “We were extremely impressed with Dr. Dance during his interviews, with his poise and his maturity. His answers showed a depth of understanding. His references and prior experience were stellar,” said Baltimore County School Board President Lawrence Schmidt. In an open letter published in the Baltimore Sun, Dance pledged his commitment to the new position: “Education is my calling, not just a career. I've always known that this would be my life's work, and it has been professionally and personally rewarding. To quote one of my heroes, Teddy Roosevelt, “Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” As your next superintendent, I pledge to the residents of Baltimore County to devote every waking minute to your children and giving them the excellent education they deserve.” Congratulations to Dallas!   Director of Constituent Services Publishes Third Book Director of Constituent Services Walter McKenzie has just published his third book, Intelligence Quest: Project-Based Learning and Multiple Intelligences. The book, published through the International Society for Technology in Education, offers a fresh look at multiple intelligences theory and how it can be applied to successful implementation of technology in teaching and learning. McKenzie has been teaching and administering online communities of practice since 1997, through his work with Classroom Connect, Pepperdine University and the University of Mary Washington. He has developed and led online global symposia and conferences through the Capital Region Society for Technology in Education, and has served as the head of departments of technology and information systems for the public schools of Salem, Massachusetts, Northborough and Southborough, Mass., and Arlington, Va. McKenzie will have been with ASCD for two years this July; his previous published titles are Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology (ISTE, 2003, 2nd ed.) and Standards-Based Lessons for Tech-Savvy Students: A Multiple Intelligences Approach (Linworth, 2005).   Throughout May on www.wholechildeducation.org: Mental Health A child’s mental health is influenced by her biology, social and physical environment, and behavior, as well as the availability of services. Good emotional and behavioral health enhances a child’s sense of well-being, supports satisfying social relationships at home and with peers, and facilitates achievement of full academic potential. Research shows that one in five children and adolescents ages 9 to 17 experiences symptoms of mental health problems that cause some level of impairment. However, fewer than 20 percent of those who need mental health services receive them. But, being mentally healthy is not just about emotional and behavioral difficulties. It’s also about being mentally strong and resilient and having the skills and supports to deal with stressful issues when they arise. In a nationally representative survey of 12- to 17-year-old youths about their traumatic experiences, 39 percent reported witnessing violence, 17 percent reported physical assault, and 8 percent reported a lifetime prevalence of sexual assault. Just as one can be physically healthy or unhealthy, one can also be mentally healthy or unhealthy. Join us throughout May as we discuss the importance of each child, in each school and in each community, being socially, emotionally, and mentally healthy. Download the Whole Child Podcast to hear from Erica Ahmed, director of public education for Mental Health America; Jo Mason, acting national business manager and national professional product development manager for whole child partner Principals Australia Institute and MindMatters, Australia; and Philip C. Rodkin, associate professor of child development in the Departments of Educational Psychology and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on promoting good mental health for children.   Something to Talk About May 2012 issue of Educational Leadership: Supporting Beginning Teachers Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson, ASCD Inservice What You Need to Know About Learning Styles,ASCD Inservice Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News  ASCD Welcomes New Staff to Marketing and Member Services Team—ASCD welcomes two new staff members to the association’s Marketing and Member Services Team. Bonnie Kasander has been appointed as ASCD’s new director of membership, and James Mahoney has been appointed the association’s new director of marketing. Read the full press release.  ASCD’s 2012 Summer Conference in St. Louis Helps Educators Revolutionize the Way We Teach and Learn—ASCD will present its 2012 Summer Conference in St. Louis, Mo., on July 1–3, 2012. This conference's more than 140 sessions will focus on the theme, “Revolutionizing the Way We Teach and Learn” and will be directed by leading education experts. Read the full press release. ASCD Makes Catalog of 300 Professional Development E-Books Available Through Barnes & Noble—ASCD has made its entire professional development e-book catalog of more than 300 titles available to Barnes & Noble NOOK Study users. Read the full press release. ASCD Invites Educators Worldwide to Attend Free Whole Child Virtual Conference—ASCD invites educators from around the globe to participate in this year’s free Whole Child Virtual Conference, held May 3–11, 2012. This year’s theme is “Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture,” and the event focuses on highlighting the great work of ASCD-associated schools, providing a forum in which educators who implement the whole child approach to education can learn from one another and presenters, and expanding awareness of a whole child approach to educators worldwide. Read the full press release. North Carolina School System Partners with ASCD to Achieve Professional Development Goals—Johnston County Schools (JCS), located in central North Carolina, has selected ASCD as its new professional development partner. JCS is one of the largest school systems in the state, serving more than 32,000 students across 44 schools. Read the full press release. ASCD Names Elected Leaders, Presents Affiliate Awards—ASCD recently announced Debra A. Hill, associate professor at Argosy University, as the association’s new President. Hill took office at the conclusion of ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 26. In other association news, ASCD announced new members of the ASCD Board of Directors and presented its 2012 Area of Excellence Awards to outstanding affiliate organizations. This year, Rhode Island ASCD and Virginia ASCD were recognized for their outstanding advocacy work, and North Carolina ASCD was recognized for Overall Excellence. Read the full press release. nonadult false Leader to Leader (L2L) News: May 2012 text blog 351 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 6062975 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Emerging-Leaders-and-Student-Chapters-Ignite-ASCD-Annual-Conference/blog/5971849/127586.html On the Friday before the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference, ASCD Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters enlightened us, and they made it quick.   And how did they do it? By using the Ignite presentation format, which is simultaneously entertaining for the audience and potentially terrifying for the presenter.    You see, each presentation is five minutes long. No more, no less. Because each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide advances every 15 seconds no matter what.    Different? Yes. Intense? Yes. Awesome? You bet.   The following brave souls stepped out of their comfort zones to give their Ignite presentations on a variety of fascinating topics:   Jason Flom, 2010 Emerging Leader: Jason emphasized the importance of a whole child education using clear examples of how the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Educating students encompasses transformational learning opportunities and Jason gave some valuable insight based on his experience in the classroom.   Western Kentucky University (group 1):  The first group of students from WKU shared their experience using real-world technology applications for the classroom. These free applications included Prezi, Museum Box, Animoto, and Make Beliefs. Each has its own specialty and ability to help students learn more effectively, not to mention that they’re user friendly for teachers to learn quickly.   Christina Yuknis, 2011 Emerging Leader: Life in a deaf world is a very different experience for millions of Americans. Christina shared her experience as a professor at Gallaudet University in Washington DC and how she lives her life as a hearing person while living largely in a deaf person’s world. It was fascinating to hear how the little things in life, like an alarm clock or a doorbell function in a deaf world.   Western Kentucky University (group 2): Western Kentucky University students continued to share ways to use technology to ignite student learning. The second group of students gave quick overviews of WallWisher, Study Blue, Google Docs, and Go! Animate and how they can be used in classrooms. These tools could be used anywhere as web based applications, and in some cases the tools are available on mobile devices.    Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader: Amy shared her experiences in the real world of teaching. While there can be horror stories to share, the rewards of teaching help to erase the tough times. Amy’s blend of humor and truth gave an insight that is hard to imagine coming from any pre-service education course. In the end, “the kids make it all worth it.”   Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader: Using technology is enticing to all learners, but English Language Learners are perhaps the most responsive to technology in the classroom. Patricia shared some great resources including Popplet, Xtranormal, Makebeliefs Comix, and Voicethread which she has seen work effectively with ELL students.    Matt Mingle, 2011 Emerging Leader: The final presentation by New Jersey native Matt Mingle gave a different insight into the state that is often the punch line of many jokes. Going beyond Jersey Shore stereotypes is an uphill battle, and Matt was able to share some of the gems as a history buff and social studies curriculum director for his district, sharing his perspective on the paradox of New Jersey’s history and current perceptions. His presentation was a great way to wrap up the Ignite session.   After giving their presentations, the presenters and audience members had the chance to connect through informal and structured networking activities.   “We listened to the feedback from prior annual conferences and tried to create a unique opportunity for ASCD Student Chapters and Emerging Leaders to network," said Kevin Scott, ASCD Director for Constituent Services, who hosted the event with other ASCD Staff. "The Ignite session allowed the two groups to share experiences in a way that was fun, informative, and different than any other conference experiences.”   Learn more about ASCD Student Chapters. Learn more about ASCD Emerging Leaders. View the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference Daily Archive. On the Friday before the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference, ASCD Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters enlightened us, and they made it quick.   And how did they do it? By using the Ignite presentation format, which is simultaneously entertaining for the audience and potentially terrifying for the presenter.    You see, each presentation is five minutes long. No more, no less. Because each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide advances every 15 seconds no matter what.    Different? Yes. Intense? Yes. Awesome? You bet.   The following brave souls stepped out of their comfort zones to give their Ignite presentations on a variety of fascinating topics:   Jason Flom, 2010 Emerging Leader: Jason emphasized the importance of a whole child education using clear examples of how the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Educating students encompasses transformational learning opportunities and Jason gave some valuable insight based on his experience in the classroom.   Western Kentucky University (group 1):  The first group of students from WKU shared their experience using real-world technology applications for the classroom. These free applications included Prezi, Museum Box, Animoto, and Make Beliefs. Each has its own specialty and ability to help students learn more effectively, not to mention that they’re user friendly for teachers to learn quickly.   Christina Yuknis, 2011 Emerging Leader: Life in a deaf world is a very different experience for millions of Americans. Christina shared her experience as a professor at Gallaudet University in Washington DC and how she lives her life as a hearing person while living largely in a deaf person’s world. It was fascinating to hear how the little things in life, like an alarm clock or a doorbell function in a deaf world.   Western Kentucky University (group 2): Western Kentucky University students continued to share ways to use technology to ignite student learning. The second group of students gave quick overviews of WallWisher, Study Blue, Google Docs, and Go! Animate and how they can be used in classrooms. These tools could be used anywhere as web based applications, and in some cases the tools are available on mobile devices.    Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader: Amy shared her experiences in the real world of teaching. While there can be horror stories to share, the rewards of teaching help to erase the tough times. Amy’s blend of humor and truth gave an insight that is hard to imagine coming from any pre-service education course. In the end, “the kids make it all worth it.”   Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader: Using technology is enticing to all learners, but English Language Learners are perhaps the most responsive to technology in the classroom. Patricia shared some great resources including Popplet, Xtranormal, Makebeliefs Comix, and Voicethread which she has seen work effectively with ELL students.    Matt Mingle, 2011 Emerging Leader: The final presentation by New Jersey native Matt Mingle gave a different insight into the state that is often the punch line of many jokes. Going beyond Jersey Shore stereotypes is an uphill battle, and Matt was able to share some of the gems as a history buff and social studies curriculum director for his district, sharing his perspective on the paradox of New Jersey’s history and current perceptions. His presentation was a great way to wrap up the Ignite session.   After giving their presentations, the presenters and audience members had the chance to connect through informal and structured networking activities.   “We listened to the feedback from prior annual conferences and tried to create a unique opportunity for ASCD Student Chapters and Emerging Leaders to network," said Kevin Scott, ASCD Director for Constituent Services, who hosted the event with other ASCD Staff. "The Ignite session allowed the two groups to share experiences in a way that was fun, informative, and different than any other conference experiences.”   Learn more about ASCD Student Chapters. Learn more about ASCD Emerging Leaders. View the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference Daily Archive. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:11:28 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Emerging-Leaders-and-Student-Chapters-Ignite-ASCD-Annual-Conference/blog/5971849/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-04-13T19:11:28Z Blogs ASCD EDge On the Friday before the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference, ASCD Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters enlightened us, and they made it quick.   And how did they do it? By using the Ignite presentation format, which is simultaneously entertaining for the audience and potentially terrifying for the presenter.    You see, each presentation is five minutes long. No more, no less. Because each presentation is 20 slides long, and each slide advances every 15 seconds no matter what.    Different? Yes. Intense? Yes. Awesome? You bet.   The following brave souls stepped out of their comfort zones to give their Ignite presentations on a variety of fascinating topics:   Jason Flom, 2010 Emerging Leader: Jason emphasized the importance of a whole child education using clear examples of how the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Educating students encompasses transformational learning opportunities and Jason gave some valuable insight based on his experience in the classroom.   Western Kentucky University (group 1):  The first group of students from WKU shared their experience using real-world technology applications for the classroom. These free applications included Prezi, Museum Box, Animoto, and Make Beliefs. Each has its own specialty and ability to help students learn more effectively, not to mention that they’re user friendly for teachers to learn quickly.   Christina Yuknis, 2011 Emerging Leader: Life in a deaf world is a very different experience for millions of Americans. Christina shared her experience as a professor at Gallaudet University in Washington DC and how she lives her life as a hearing person while living largely in a deaf person’s world. It was fascinating to hear how the little things in life, like an alarm clock or a doorbell function in a deaf world.   Western Kentucky University (group 2): Western Kentucky University students continued to share ways to use technology to ignite student learning. The second group of students gave quick overviews of WallWisher, Study Blue, Google Docs, and Go! Animate and how they can be used in classrooms. These tools could be used anywhere as web based applications, and in some cases the tools are available on mobile devices.    Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader: Amy shared her experiences in the real world of teaching. While there can be horror stories to share, the rewards of teaching help to erase the tough times. Amy’s blend of humor and truth gave an insight that is hard to imagine coming from any pre-service education course. In the end, “the kids make it all worth it.”   Patricia Dickenson, 2011 Emerging Leader: Using technology is enticing to all learners, but English Language Learners are perhaps the most responsive to technology in the classroom. Patricia shared some great resources including Popplet, Xtranormal, Makebeliefs Comix, and Voicethread which she has seen work effectively with ELL students.    Matt Mingle, 2011 Emerging Leader: The final presentation by New Jersey native Matt Mingle gave a different insight into the state that is often the punch line of many jokes. Going beyond Jersey Shore stereotypes is an uphill battle, and Matt was able to share some of the gems as a history buff and social studies curriculum director for his district, sharing his perspective on the paradox of New Jersey’s history and current perceptions. His presentation was a great way to wrap up the Ignite session.   After giving their presentations, the presenters and audience members had the chance to connect through informal and structured networking activities.   “We listened to the feedback from prior annual conferences and tried to create a unique opportunity for ASCD Student Chapters and Emerging Leaders to network," said Kevin Scott, ASCD Director for Constituent Services, who hosted the event with other ASCD Staff. "The Ignite session allowed the two groups to share experiences in a way that was fun, informative, and different than any other conference experiences.”   Learn more about ASCD Student Chapters. Learn more about ASCD Emerging Leaders. View the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference Daily Archive. blogs nonadult false ASCD Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters Ignite ASCD Annual Conference text blog blogs 821 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 1 Blogs 0 5971849 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Leader-to-Leader-L2L-News-April-2012/blog/5971949/127586.html ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Register for the Leader to Leader (L2L) Conference. Learn more and register at www.ascd.org/l2lconference. E-mail l2levent@ascd.org with questions.  Apply for the Whole Child Network of Schools by April 30. Learn more at www.ascd.org/wholechildnetwork.  Register for the Whole Child Virtual Conference: Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture, May 3–11, 2012. This event is free to all who wish to attend. Register now!  Review the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution for the upcoming vote. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution in early May 2012. Click on www.ascd.org/governance to read a message from President Paul Healey and to access a copy of the ASCD Constitution with the proposed new language. Voting will open on May 4 here on the ASCD website.  Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals until May 15 for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future”. Visit the ASCD website for more information and to access the online submission form.  Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.           Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Community   Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter Helps Students in Kenya and Liberia  Hofstra ASCD University has already donated $4,800 to help build schools in Kenya and Liberia, and they’re planning to donate more. Read their story on ASCD EDge.   Spanish Speaking Educators Support the Whole Child These Spanish speaking ASCD leaders know “toda la persona es importante.” Watch and share the whole child video.   Outstanding Young Educator Award Winners Announced Liliana Aguas, teacher at Leconte Elementary School in Berkeley Calif., and Matt McClure, superintendent of Cross County Schools in Arkansas, are ASCD’s 2012 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winners! ASCD honored Aguas and McClure at the 67th  Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa. The 2012 OYEA honorees are Tiffany Anderson, Daniel Kimberg, and Catherine Ousselin. Learn more about the winners and the OYEA program at www.ascd.org/oyea.   Affiliate Awards Announced At the Leadership Appreciation Luncheon on Sunday, March 25, 2012, ASCD honored ASCD affiliates for their exemplary service to the education community with Affiliate Excellence Awards. This year, North Carolina ASCD received an Overall Excellence Award. Rhode Island ASCD and Virginia ASCD received Area of Excellence Awards. Read the press release on ASCD.org.   Colorado Common Core State Standards Summit Nearly 500 educators attended ASCD’s Common Core State Standards Summit in Westminster, Colo., in early March. In addition to providing attendees with the latest information about the status of the state’s standards implementation efforts, school leaders gave feedback about their biggest challenges and needs in putting the standards into practice. Learn more information about the partnerships and what was discussed at the Colorado Common Core State Standards Summit.    Debra Hill Takes Office as ASCD President  In Debra Hill’s career as an educator, she has worked at just about every level of education, from classroom teacher to superintendent to university professor. One thing she plans to focus on during her tenure as ASCD President is strengthening partnerships that support the Whole Child Initiative. “I believe the Whole Child Initiative can really help to refocus, reform, and revolutionize the conversation about education”, says Hill. Read more about Hill in the Conference Daily archive.   Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters Ignite ASCD Annual Conference The afternoon of Friday, March 23, 2012, members of ASCD Student Chapters and Emerging Leaders presented at our first Ignite Session. With the motto of “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” this event was the first of its kind for ASCD. After watching a series of five-minute presentations on various topics, attendees participated in a fast-paced, hands-on networking activity. It was a unique opportunity for Emerging Leaders and Student Chapter members to meet and mingle together. Read the recap on ASCD EDge.   Legislative Committee Members Talk with U.S. Dept. of Education Representative about RESPECT ASCD Legislative Committee members David Mathis, Marie Adair, Nick Dussault, Nancy Gibson, and Jeff Stephens (along with ASCD public policy staff) met with Gamal Sherif, a U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellow, during an Annual Conference luncheon to discuss federal policy issues. Sherif was most interested in hearing ASCD’s perspective on the Obama administration’s new RESPECT initiative and was very responsive to Legislative Committee members’ concerns about the need to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as well as the importance of providing support for teachers and principals in this difficult economic climate.   Events California ASCD presents a networking event for young educators in San Francisco on May 11, the first of three events to be held in the state. Indiana ASCD presents an information session on April 18 from 5-7p.m., Teacher Evaluations and the Common Core State Standards: What’s Coming and What You Need to Know! Iowa ASCD in collaboration with the Iowa Department of Education, presents Iowa ASCD Curriculum Leadership Academy. Massachusetts ASCD is planning a joint workshop on creativity in July. It will be a combination of research presentations, hands-on demos, technology and time for district teams to create projects to share.  New Hampshire ASCD presents Middle & High School Common Core Math Workshop.   Other News Arkansas ASCD leaders met with House Education Chairman John Kline (R-MN) to discuss ESEA reauthorization. Chairman Kline said he expects that his ESEA bills will be sent to the House floor sometime this summer. Missouri ASCD is working on getting a Whole Child Resolution passed this legislative session. ASCD Multiple Intelligences Professional Interest Community facilitator Tom Hoerr published an article on The Whole Child and Maslow in ASCD Express. ASCD Professional Learning Communities Professional Interest Community wishes to thank everyone who attended the “Professional Learning Communities: Lessons Learned” at Annual Conference. New Jersey ASCD hosted a P-16 summit on the Common Core State Standards on March 30. The symposium was attended by more than 200 educators. South Carolina ASCD has instituted a Whole Child Award, which will recognize schools making sure children are healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. Awards will be presented at the South Carolina Fall Conference. Virginia ASCD’s Influence Committee initiated a push to make the Virginia General Assembly Representatives and Senators aware of its organization and purpose. The focus of a visit with delegates was to introduce the Virginia ASCD, pointing out its purpose and discussing critical issues that face educators in Virginia. Currently, school divisions are still waiting for a final state budget from the General Assembly and the Governor.         Throughout April on www.wholechildeducation.org : Whole Child Network of Schools In May, ASCD will select a small group of schools from across the United States and Canada to become part of our Whole Child Network (WCN). WCN schools will receive a $10,000 grant for the 2012–2013 school year and individualized support from ASCD in developing a plan to implement a whole child approach to education in their schools, including a needs assessment and implementation support to ensure a sustainable, comprehensive approach. The schools chosen for the WCN will commit to a comprehensive school improvement process that will use the Whole Child Tenets—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—and their indicators (PDF) as their sustainable approach.  ASCD’s WCN is open to all schools (e.g., public, charter, private) of any grade level within the United States and Canada. To apply go to www.ascd.org/wholechildnetwork   Deadline: April 30th, 2012     ESEA Reauthorization: The Never-Ending Story What will happen if our nation's leaders fail to reauthorize ESEA this year, and current law continues to operate on autopilot? ASCD’s spring edition of Policy Priorities examines this question, drawing on insight from education leaders from across the political spectrum and across job responsibilities. The policy newsletter succinctly captures NCLB’s deep, structural flaws; outlines the House and Senate’s current efforts to overhaul the federal education law; describes the Obama administration’s attempts to circumvent the trickiest parts of the law by offering states NCLB waivers with strings attached; and summarizes transition challenges states are likely to face as they implement Common Core State Standards within NCLB’s outdated framework.    Something to Talk About ·         Preparing Next Generation Citizens with iCivics,  ASCD Inservice ·         Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson,ASCD Inservice ·         Gaps Close When Whole Child Beliefs are Matched with Actions, ASCD Inservice ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         ASCD Debuts Digital 2011 Annual Report—ASCD announces the release of the association’s 2011 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Revolution: The Next Chapter in the ASCD Story.” Designed to convey the perspective of real educators, the report details how each component of ASCD’s work in 2011 positively affected the education practice. The exclusively digital report is easy to access and share on Internet-ready devices anywhere in the world. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD and Pearson Debut New Principal Compass™ Online Professional Development Tool—At the association’s 67thAnnual Conference and Exhibit Show, ASCD and Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, debuted the new online, comprehensive leadership program, Principal Compass. Created in collaboration with Robert Marzano and the Marzano Research Laboratory, Principal Compass is a cloud-based program that helps increase leadership effectiveness for K— 12 principals and their teams. Read the full press release. ·     ASCD Publishes Guidebook for Coming Out on Top Even When Teaching Gets Tough—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of When Teaching Gets Tough: Smart Ways to Reclaim Your Game, a new book by seasoned educator and school psychologist Allen Mendler. Read the full press release.     ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Register for the Leader to Leader (L2L) Conference. Learn more and register at www.ascd.org/l2lconference. E-mail l2levent@ascd.org with questions.  Apply for the Whole Child Network of Schools by April 30. Learn more at www.ascd.org/wholechildnetwork.  Register for the Whole Child Virtual Conference: Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture, May 3–11, 2012. This event is free to all who wish to attend. Register now!  Review the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution for the upcoming vote. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution in early May 2012. Click on www.ascd.org/governance to read a message from President Paul Healey and to access a copy of the ASCD Constitution with the proposed new language. Voting will open on May 4 here on the ASCD website.  Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals until May 15 for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future”. Visit the ASCD website for more information and to access the online submission form.  Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.           Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Community   Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter Helps Students in Kenya and Liberia  Hofstra ASCD University has already donated $4,800 to help build schools in Kenya and Liberia, and they’re planning to donate more. Read their story on ASCD EDge.   Spanish Speaking Educators Support the Whole Child These Spanish speaking ASCD leaders know “toda la persona es importante.” Watch and share the whole child video.   Outstanding Young Educator Award Winners Announced Liliana Aguas, teacher at Leconte Elementary School in Berkeley Calif., and Matt McClure, superintendent of Cross County Schools in Arkansas, are ASCD’s 2012 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winners! ASCD honored Aguas and McClure at the 67th  Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa. The 2012 OYEA honorees are Tiffany Anderson, Daniel Kimberg, and Catherine Ousselin. Learn more about the winners and the OYEA program at www.ascd.org/oyea.   Affiliate Awards Announced At the Leadership Appreciation Luncheon on Sunday, March 25, 2012, ASCD honored ASCD affiliates for their exemplary service to the education community with Affiliate Excellence Awards. This year, North Carolina ASCD received an Overall Excellence Award. Rhode Island ASCD and Virginia ASCD received Area of Excellence Awards. Read the press release on ASCD.org.   Colorado Common Core State Standards Summit Nearly 500 educators attended ASCD’s Common Core State Standards Summit in Westminster, Colo., in early March. In addition to providing attendees with the latest information about the status of the state’s standards implementation efforts, school leaders gave feedback about their biggest challenges and needs in putting the standards into practice. Learn more information about the partnerships and what was discussed at the Colorado Common Core State Standards Summit.    Debra Hill Takes Office as ASCD President  In Debra Hill’s career as an educator, she has worked at just about every level of education, from classroom teacher to superintendent to university professor. One thing she plans to focus on during her tenure as ASCD President is strengthening partnerships that support the Whole Child Initiative. “I believe the Whole Child Initiative can really help to refocus, reform, and revolutionize the conversation about education”, says Hill. Read more about Hill in the Conference Daily archive.   Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters Ignite ASCD Annual Conference The afternoon of Friday, March 23, 2012, members of ASCD Student Chapters and Emerging Leaders presented at our first Ignite Session. With the motto of “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” this event was the first of its kind for ASCD. After watching a series of five-minute presentations on various topics, attendees participated in a fast-paced, hands-on networking activity. It was a unique opportunity for Emerging Leaders and Student Chapter members to meet and mingle together. Read the recap on ASCD EDge.   Legislative Committee Members Talk with U.S. Dept. of Education Representative about RESPECT ASCD Legislative Committee members David Mathis, Marie Adair, Nick Dussault, Nancy Gibson, and Jeff Stephens (along with ASCD public policy staff) met with Gamal Sherif, a U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellow, during an Annual Conference luncheon to discuss federal policy issues. Sherif was most interested in hearing ASCD’s perspective on the Obama administration’s new RESPECT initiative and was very responsive to Legislative Committee members’ concerns about the need to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as well as the importance of providing support for teachers and principals in this difficult economic climate.   Events California ASCD presents a networking event for young educators in San Francisco on May 11, the first of three events to be held in the state. Indiana ASCD presents an information session on April 18 from 5-7p.m., Teacher Evaluations and the Common Core State Standards: What’s Coming and What You Need to Know! Iowa ASCD in collaboration with the Iowa Department of Education, presents Iowa ASCD Curriculum Leadership Academy. Massachusetts ASCD is planning a joint workshop on creativity in July. It will be a combination of research presentations, hands-on demos, technology and time for district teams to create projects to share.  New Hampshire ASCD presents Middle & High School Common Core Math Workshop.   Other News Arkansas ASCD leaders met with House Education Chairman John Kline (R-MN) to discuss ESEA reauthorization. Chairman Kline said he expects that his ESEA bills will be sent to the House floor sometime this summer. Missouri ASCD is working on getting a Whole Child Resolution passed this legislative session. ASCD Multiple Intelligences Professional Interest Community facilitator Tom Hoerr published an article on The Whole Child and Maslow in ASCD Express. ASCD Professional Learning Communities Professional Interest Community wishes to thank everyone who attended the “Professional Learning Communities: Lessons Learned” at Annual Conference. New Jersey ASCD hosted a P-16 summit on the Common Core State Standards on March 30. The symposium was attended by more than 200 educators. South Carolina ASCD has instituted a Whole Child Award, which will recognize schools making sure children are healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. Awards will be presented at the South Carolina Fall Conference. Virginia ASCD’s Influence Committee initiated a push to make the Virginia General Assembly Representatives and Senators aware of its organization and purpose. The focus of a visit with delegates was to introduce the Virginia ASCD, pointing out its purpose and discussing critical issues that face educators in Virginia. Currently, school divisions are still waiting for a final state budget from the General Assembly and the Governor.         Throughout April on www.wholechildeducation.org : Whole Child Network of Schools In May, ASCD will select a small group of schools from across the United States and Canada to become part of our Whole Child Network (WCN). WCN schools will receive a $10,000 grant for the 2012–2013 school year and individualized support from ASCD in developing a plan to implement a whole child approach to education in their schools, including a needs assessment and implementation support to ensure a sustainable, comprehensive approach. The schools chosen for the WCN will commit to a comprehensive school improvement process that will use the Whole Child Tenets—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—and their indicators (PDF) as their sustainable approach.  ASCD’s WCN is open to all schools (e.g., public, charter, private) of any grade level within the United States and Canada. To apply go to www.ascd.org/wholechildnetwork   Deadline: April 30th, 2012     ESEA Reauthorization: The Never-Ending Story What will happen if our nation's leaders fail to reauthorize ESEA this year, and current law continues to operate on autopilot? ASCD’s spring edition of Policy Priorities examines this question, drawing on insight from education leaders from across the political spectrum and across job responsibilities. The policy newsletter succinctly captures NCLB’s deep, structural flaws; outlines the House and Senate’s current efforts to overhaul the federal education law; describes the Obama administration’s attempts to circumvent the trickiest parts of the law by offering states NCLB waivers with strings attached; and summarizes transition challenges states are likely to face as they implement Common Core State Standards within NCLB’s outdated framework.    Something to Talk About ·         Preparing Next Generation Citizens with iCivics,  ASCD Inservice ·         Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson,ASCD Inservice ·         Gaps Close When Whole Child Beliefs are Matched with Actions, ASCD Inservice ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         ASCD Debuts Digital 2011 Annual Report—ASCD announces the release of the association’s 2011 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Revolution: The Next Chapter in the ASCD Story.” Designed to convey the perspective of real educators, the report details how each component of ASCD’s work in 2011 positively affected the education practice. The exclusively digital report is easy to access and share on Internet-ready devices anywhere in the world. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD and Pearson Debut New Principal Compass™ Online Professional Development Tool—At the association’s 67thAnnual Conference and Exhibit Show, ASCD and Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, debuted the new online, comprehensive leadership program, Principal Compass. Created in collaboration with Robert Marzano and the Marzano Research Laboratory, Principal Compass is a cloud-based program that helps increase leadership effectiveness for K— 12 principals and their teams. Read the full press release. ·     ASCD Publishes Guidebook for Coming Out on Top Even When Teaching Gets Tough—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of When Teaching Gets Tough: Smart Ways to Reclaim Your Game, a new book by seasoned educator and school psychologist Allen Mendler. Read the full press release.     Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:40:04 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Leader-to-Leader-L2L-News-April-2012/blog/5971949/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-04-13T16:40:04Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Register for the Leader to Leader (L2L) Conference. Learn more and register at www.ascd.org/l2lconference. E-mail l2levent@ascd.org with questions.  Apply for the Whole Child Network of Schools by April 30. Learn more at www.ascd.org/wholechildnetwork.  Register for the Whole Child Virtual Conference: Moving from Implementation to Sustainability to Culture, May 3–11, 2012. This event is free to all who wish to attend. Register now!  Review the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution for the upcoming vote. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution in early May 2012. Click on www.ascd.org/governance to read a message from President Paul Healey and to access a copy of the ASCD Constitution with the proposed new language. Voting will open on May 4 here on the ASCD website.  Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals until May 15 for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future”. Visit the ASCD website for more information and to access the online submission form.  Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme related articles for Special Topics. View the complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines.           Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Community   Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter Helps Students in Kenya and Liberia  Hofstra ASCD University has already donated $4,800 to help build schools in Kenya and Liberia, and they’re planning to donate more. Read their story on ASCD EDge.   Spanish Speaking Educators Support the Whole Child These Spanish speaking ASCD leaders know “toda la persona es importante.” Watch and share the whole child video.   Outstanding Young Educator Award Winners Announced Liliana Aguas, teacher at Leconte Elementary School in Berkeley Calif., and Matt McClure, superintendent of Cross County Schools in Arkansas, are ASCD’s 2012 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winners! ASCD honored Aguas and McClure at the 67th  Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa. The 2012 OYEA honorees are Tiffany Anderson, Daniel Kimberg, and Catherine Ousselin. Learn more about the winners and the OYEA program at www.ascd.org/oyea.   Affiliate Awards Announced At the Leadership Appreciation Luncheon on Sunday, March 25, 2012, ASCD honored ASCD affiliates for their exemplary service to the education community with Affiliate Excellence Awards. This year, North Carolina ASCD received an Overall Excellence Award. Rhode Island ASCD and Virginia ASCD received Area of Excellence Awards. Read the press release on ASCD.org.   Colorado Common Core State Standards Summit Nearly 500 educators attended ASCD’s Common Core State Standards Summit in Westminster, Colo., in early March. In addition to providing attendees with the latest information about the status of the state’s standards implementation efforts, school leaders gave feedback about their biggest challenges and needs in putting the standards into practice. Learn more information about the partnerships and what was discussed at the Colorado Common Core State Standards Summit.    Debra Hill Takes Office as ASCD President  In Debra Hill’s career as an educator, she has worked at just about every level of education, from classroom teacher to superintendent to university professor. One thing she plans to focus on during her tenure as ASCD President is strengthening partnerships that support the Whole Child Initiative. “I believe the Whole Child Initiative can really help to refocus, reform, and revolutionize the conversation about education”, says Hill. Read more about Hill in the Conference Daily archive.   Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters Ignite ASCD Annual Conference The afternoon of Friday, March 23, 2012, members of ASCD Student Chapters and Emerging Leaders presented at our first Ignite Session. With the motto of “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” this event was the first of its kind for ASCD. After watching a series of five-minute presentations on various topics, attendees participated in a fast-paced, hands-on networking activity. It was a unique opportunity for Emerging Leaders and Student Chapter members to meet and mingle together. Read the recap on ASCD EDge.   Legislative Committee Members Talk with U.S. Dept. of Education Representative about RESPECT ASCD Legislative Committee members David Mathis, Marie Adair, Nick Dussault, Nancy Gibson, and Jeff Stephens (along with ASCD public policy staff) met with Gamal Sherif, a U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellow, during an Annual Conference luncheon to discuss federal policy issues. Sherif was most interested in hearing ASCD’s perspective on the Obama administration’s new RESPECT initiative and was very responsive to Legislative Committee members’ concerns about the need to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as well as the importance of providing support for teachers and principals in this difficult economic climate.   Events California ASCD presents a networking event for young educators in San Francisco on May 11, the first of three events to be held in the state. Indiana ASCD presents an information session on April 18 from 5-7p.m., Teacher Evaluations and the Common Core State Standards: What’s Coming and What You Need to Know! Iowa ASCD in collaboration with the Iowa Department of Education, presents Iowa ASCD Curriculum Leadership Academy. Massachusetts ASCD is planning a joint workshop on creativity in July. It will be a combination of research presentations, hands-on demos, technology and time for district teams to create projects to share.  New Hampshire ASCD presents Middle & High School Common Core Math Workshop.   Other News Arkansas ASCD leaders met with House Education Chairman John Kline (R-MN) to discuss ESEA reauthorization. Chairman Kline said he expects that his ESEA bills will be sent to the House floor sometime this summer. Missouri ASCD is working on getting a Whole Child Resolution passed this legislative session. ASCD Multiple Intelligences Professional Interest Community facilitator Tom Hoerr published an article on The Whole Child and Maslow in ASCD Express. ASCD Professional Learning Communities Professional Interest Community wishes to thank everyone who attended the “Professional Learning Communities: Lessons Learned” at Annual Conference. New Jersey ASCD hosted a P-16 summit on the Common Core State Standards on March 30. The symposium was attended by more than 200 educators. South Carolina ASCD has instituted a Whole Child Award, which will recognize schools making sure children are healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. Awards will be presented at the South Carolina Fall Conference. Virginia ASCD’s Influence Committee initiated a push to make the Virginia General Assembly Representatives and Senators aware of its organization and purpose. The focus of a visit with delegates was to introduce the Virginia ASCD, pointing out its purpose and discussing critical issues that face educators in Virginia. Currently, school divisions are still waiting for a final state budget from the General Assembly and the Governor.         Throughout April on www.wholechildeducation.org : Whole Child Network of Schools In May, ASCD will select a small group of schools from across the United States and Canada to become part of our Whole Child Network (WCN). WCN schools will receive a $10,000 grant for the 2012–2013 school year and individualized support from ASCD in developing a plan to implement a whole child approach to education in their schools, including a needs assessment and implementation support to ensure a sustainable, comprehensive approach. The schools chosen for the WCN will commit to a comprehensive school improvement process that will use the Whole Child Tenets—healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—and their indicators (PDF) as their sustainable approach.  ASCD’s WCN is open to all schools (e.g., public, charter, private) of any grade level within the United States and Canada. To apply go to www.ascd.org/wholechildnetwork   Deadline: April 30th, 2012     ESEA Reauthorization: The Never-Ending Story What will happen if our nation's leaders fail to reauthorize ESEA this year, and current law continues to operate on autopilot? ASCD’s spring edition of Policy Priorities examines this question, drawing on insight from education leaders from across the political spectrum and across job responsibilities. The policy newsletter succinctly captures NCLB’s deep, structural flaws; outlines the House and Senate’s current efforts to overhaul the federal education law; describes the Obama administration’s attempts to circumvent the trickiest parts of the law by offering states NCLB waivers with strings attached; and summarizes transition challenges states are likely to face as they implement Common Core State Standards within NCLB’s outdated framework.    Something to Talk About ·         Preparing Next Generation Citizens with iCivics,  ASCD Inservice ·         Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson,ASCD Inservice ·         Gaps Close When Whole Child Beliefs are Matched with Actions, ASCD Inservice ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         ASCD Debuts Digital 2011 Annual Report—ASCD announces the release of the association’s 2011 Annual Report, entitled “Creating Revolution: The Next Chapter in the ASCD Story.” Designed to convey the perspective of real educators, the report details how each component of ASCD’s work in 2011 positively affected the education practice. The exclusively digital report is easy to access and share on Internet-ready devices anywhere in the world. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD and Pearson Debut New Principal Compass™ Online Professional Development Tool—At the association’s 67thAnnual Conference and Exhibit Show, ASCD and Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, debuted the new online, comprehensive leadership program, Principal Compass. Created in collaboration with Robert Marzano and the Marzano Research Laboratory, Principal Compass is a cloud-based program that helps increase leadership effectiveness for K— 12 principals and their teams. Read the full press release. ·     ASCD Publishes Guidebook for Coming Out on Top Even When Teaching Gets Tough—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of When Teaching Gets Tough: Smart Ways to Reclaim Your Game, a new book by seasoned educator and school psychologist Allen Mendler. Read the full press release.     nonadult false ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News: April 2012 text blog 563 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 0 0 5971949 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_Hofstra-University-ASCD-Student-Chapter-Helps-Students-in-Kenya-and-Liberia/blog/5971915/127586.html  [image]   Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter has been raising money for the past two years to build a school in the Massai Land in Kenya.  With a lot of help of  fellow undergraduate and graduate ASCD board members, Student Chapter Graduate President Nichole Facchini successfully spearheaded an effort to fundraise and donate $2,300 toward building a school in the Maasai Land in Kenya.   The student chapter presented Chief Joseph Ole Tipnako Koisele of the Maasai tribe with the funds in May 2011. This month, Chief Joseph came back to Hofstra to show the progress of the school that was built with the $2,300.  Chief Joseph explained that where they live has no running water and no forms of transportation. Families walk 17 miles to get to the market, which is the only source of water and electricity. Children as young as ten have to walk six miles to get to school, which can take up to two hours each way.   "It was an extremely enlightening and humbling experience to meet him and hear about the struggles that these families go through on a daily basis," said Nichole Facchini. "Also to see how the basic necessities of life such as water, food, electricity, and strong shelter are things people in this community do not have; things that we as Americans often take [for granted]."   The student chapter members were able to view pictures of the school that they worked so hard to fund.  It is a preschool that houses 40 students.  The donated funds also paid for 20 young women to go to high school.   "It was amazing to see a building made out of stone,which is very expensive and rare to see in Kenya. The chairs are filled with children, and tables filled with paper and pencils. It is amazing to see how we are fighting in [American] schools to get laptops for each child, or iPads, and these children did not even have pencils! It really made me appreciate everything I have," said Facchini. At the end of the meeting, Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter presented Chief Joseph with an additional check for $1,500; the photo above shows the chapter and the representatives from Kenya after the check presentation. View more photos of the event on the Hofstra website.   The student chapter is also raising money to help build schools in Liberia.  Last fall, the chapter donated $1,000 to Liberia, and is continuing fundraising efforts to donate more funds this spring. Many thanks to Hofstra ASCD Student Chapter for their amazing work in helping students in Kenya and Liberia!   Learn more about ASCD Student Chapters    [image]   Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter has been raising money for the past two years to build a school in the Massai Land in Kenya.  With a lot of help of  fellow undergraduate and graduate ASCD board members, Student Chapter Graduate President Nichole Facchini successfully spearheaded an effort to fundraise and donate $2,300 toward building a school in the Maasai Land in Kenya.   The student chapter presented Chief Joseph Ole Tipnako Koisele of the Maasai tribe with the funds in May 2011. This month, Chief Joseph came back to Hofstra to show the progress of the school that was built with the $2,300.  Chief Joseph explained that where they live has no running water and no forms of transportation. Families walk 17 miles to get to the market, which is the only source of water and electricity. Children as young as ten have to walk six miles to get to school, which can take up to two hours each way.   "It was an extremely enlightening and humbling experience to meet him and hear about the struggles that these families go through on a daily basis," said Nichole Facchini. "Also to see how the basic necessities of life such as water, food, electricity, and strong shelter are things people in this community do not have; things that we as Americans often take [for granted]."   The student chapter members were able to view pictures of the school that they worked so hard to fund.  It is a preschool that houses 40 students.  The donated funds also paid for 20 young women to go to high school.   "It was amazing to see a building made out of stone,which is very expensive and rare to see in Kenya. The chairs are filled with children, and tables filled with paper and pencils. It is amazing to see how we are fighting in [American] schools to get laptops for each child, or iPads, and these children did not even have pencils! It really made me appreciate everything I have," said Facchini. At the end of the meeting, Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter presented Chief Joseph with an additional check for $1,500; the photo above shows the chapter and the representatives from Kenya after the check presentation. View more photos of the event on the Hofstra website.   The student chapter is also raising money to help build schools in Liberia.  Last fall, the chapter donated $1,000 to Liberia, and is continuing fundraising efforts to donate more funds this spring. Many thanks to Hofstra ASCD Student Chapter for their amazing work in helping students in Kenya and Liberia!   Learn more about ASCD Student Chapters   Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:18:21 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_Hofstra-University-ASCD-Student-Chapter-Helps-Students-in-Kenya-and-Liberia/blog/5971915/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-04-13T16:18:21Z ASCD EDge  [image]   Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter has been raising money for the past two years to build a school in the Massai Land in Kenya.  With a lot of help of  fellow undergraduate and graduate ASCD board members, Student Chapter Graduate President Nichole Facchini successfully spearheaded an effort to fundraise and donate $2,300 toward building a school in the Maasai Land in Kenya.   The student chapter presented Chief Joseph Ole Tipnako Koisele of the Maasai tribe with the funds in May 2011. This month, Chief Joseph came back to Hofstra to show the progress of the school that was built with the $2,300.  Chief Joseph explained that where they live has no running water and no forms of transportation. Families walk 17 miles to get to the market, which is the only source of water and electricity. Children as young as ten have to walk six miles to get to school, which can take up to two hours each way.   "It was an extremely enlightening and humbling experience to meet him and hear about the struggles that these families go through on a daily basis," said Nichole Facchini. "Also to see how the basic necessities of life such as water, food, electricity, and strong shelter are things people in this community do not have; things that we as Americans often take [for granted]."   The student chapter members were able to view pictures of the school that they worked so hard to fund.  It is a preschool that houses 40 students.  The donated funds also paid for 20 young women to go to high school.   "It was amazing to see a building made out of stone,which is very expensive and rare to see in Kenya. The chairs are filled with children, and tables filled with paper and pencils. It is amazing to see how we are fighting in [American] schools to get laptops for each child, or iPads, and these children did not even have pencils! It really made me appreciate everything I have," said Facchini. At the end of the meeting, Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter presented Chief Joseph with an additional check for $1,500; the photo above shows the chapter and the representatives from Kenya after the check presentation. View more photos of the event on the Hofstra website.   The student chapter is also raising money to help build schools in Liberia.  Last fall, the chapter donated $1,000 to Liberia, and is continuing fundraising efforts to donate more funds this spring. Many thanks to Hofstra ASCD Student Chapter for their amazing work in helping students in Kenya and Liberia!   Learn more about ASCD Student Chapters   nonadult false Hofstra University ASCD Student Chapter Helps Students in Kenya and Liberia text blog 1380 0 0.0 http://edge.ascd.org/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=18698415&as=127586 http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/127586/photos/PHOTO_13781675_127586_18698415_ap_160X120.jpg false United States VA Alexandria 1 0 5971915 18698415 ASCD EDge Member 4164 http://edge.ascd.org/_You-Learn-You-Teach-Now-Lead-Emerging-Leader-Applications-Close-41/blog/5884603/127586.html Each year, ASCD inducts a new class of Emerging Leaders. These educators are driven, accomplished, diverse, and passionate, and they're ready to get more involved with ASCD.   ASCD is accepting applications until April 1. But how do you know if you or your colleague is a good fit for the program? We thought some current and former Emerging Leaders would be the best people to help answer that question.   1. What would you tell someone who is considering applying for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program? "Do it! I wasn't sure if I was 'qualified enough' to be accepted, and I was. It's totally worth a try because you get to do some neat stuff if you are accepted!"  - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   What kind of neat stuff, you ask? Check out some of the things ASCD Emerging Leaders have done: Received waived registration to attend the invitation-only Leader to Leader (L2L) Conference Elected to the ASCD Leadership Council as a Member at Large Elected as ASCD affiliate presidents and presidents-elect Wrote for the ASCD Inservice blog Featured in Educational Leadership Contributed to Educational Leadership's Among Colleagues column Vlogged and blogged on ASCD EDge Wrote a column for EdTech Digest Wrote a story for ASCD Express Guest-posted on Rick Hess' EdWeek blog Featured in the Christian Science Monitor's "30 Ideas From People Under 30" series Served on the Emerging Leaders Selection Committee Served on the ASCD Annual Conference Planning Committee Coached Emerging Leaders as alumni of the program This weekend, Emerging Leaders will also give Ignite presentations at a special session at ASCD Annual Conference on Friday afternoon from 1-4 pm on March 23. Would you like to join us? RSVP here to attend.    2. What is your favorite part of the ASCD Emerging Leaders program? "I enjoy that I have been able to network with other young education leaders who share my passion for finding the best ways to teach children and help teachers do the best job they can. I have had several opportunities to do this so far, and I know there are more to come." - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   "I can say without any reservation that the best part of the Emerging Leader program is the cameraderie with the other Emerging Leaders!! [Social networking] has been a great way for us to connect and continue discussions throughout the year." - Christina Yuknis, 2011 Emerging Leader   "The Emerging Leaders program is an opportunity to be a part of the conversation among leaders who are working at the highest levels to improve practices and policies that impact children. Through these conversations; connections develop and opportunities emerge. In time, my perception of ASCD shifted from viewing it as a large national organization that I benefited from as a member, to an accessible network of colleagues with whom I could collaborate and share."- Tony Frontier, 2007 Emerging Leader   3. How would someone know if he/she is a good fit for the Emerging Leaders program? Are you passionate? Are you hard-working? Are you willing to get yourself to events where you can network with other leaders (certain conferences, etc.)? Are you in need of a push to do some of the things you've been wanting to do, like get more involved with ASCD, write for some of their publications, etc.? Then the Emerging Leaders program is for you!- Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader    "If you find yourself constantly thinking about school reform and how you can use your experience and voice to empower others, you might be ready for ASCD's Emerging Leaders program. Being an emerging leader is about a commitment to the mission of ASCD and knowing that we are not only teachers, but we are also leaders who can touch the future in ways we may never realize. Being an emerging leader is a calling to share your passion as an educator every day and in every forum." - Dave Scott, 2008 Emerging Leader, excerpt from his Whole Child Blog post "Touching the Future"   Are you an Emerging Leader?   4. Complete this sentence: The Emerging Leader program is not… "Easy. It has been a lot of work to do the things that I took on as my Emerging Leaders goals (such as drafting an article to submit to ASCD Express, preparing a presentation for the annual conference, trying to stay in touch with my local affiliate, etc.) But I hope that by the end of my 2 years, I will feel that the time I have invested has been worth it." - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   Want to learn more? Program information and the online application are now available at http://www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Applications close April 1.   Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org. Each year, ASCD inducts a new class of Emerging Leaders. These educators are driven, accomplished, diverse, and passionate, and they're ready to get more involved with ASCD.   ASCD is accepting applications until April 1. But how do you know if you or your colleague is a good fit for the program? We thought some current and former Emerging Leaders would be the best people to help answer that question.   1. What would you tell someone who is considering applying for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program? "Do it! I wasn't sure if I was 'qualified enough' to be accepted, and I was. It's totally worth a try because you get to do some neat stuff if you are accepted!"  - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   What kind of neat stuff, you ask? Check out some of the things ASCD Emerging Leaders have done: Received waived registration to attend the invitation-only Leader to Leader (L2L) Conference Elected to the ASCD Leadership Council as a Member at Large Elected as ASCD affiliate presidents and presidents-elect Wrote for the ASCD Inservice blog Featured in Educational Leadership Contributed to Educational Leadership's Among Colleagues column Vlogged and blogged on ASCD EDge Wrote a column for EdTech Digest Wrote a story for ASCD Express Guest-posted on Rick Hess' EdWeek blog Featured in the Christian Science Monitor's "30 Ideas From People Under 30" series Served on the Emerging Leaders Selection Committee Served on the ASCD Annual Conference Planning Committee Coached Emerging Leaders as alumni of the program This weekend, Emerging Leaders will also give Ignite presentations at a special session at ASCD Annual Conference on Friday afternoon from 1-4 pm on March 23. Would you like to join us? RSVP here to attend.    2. What is your favorite part of the ASCD Emerging Leaders program? "I enjoy that I have been able to network with other young education leaders who share my passion for finding the best ways to teach children and help teachers do the best job they can. I have had several opportunities to do this so far, and I know there are more to come." - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   "I can say without any reservation that the best part of the Emerging Leader program is the cameraderie with the other Emerging Leaders!! [Social networking] has been a great way for us to connect and continue discussions throughout the year." - Christina Yuknis, 2011 Emerging Leader   "The Emerging Leaders program is an opportunity to be a part of the conversation among leaders who are working at the highest levels to improve practices and policies that impact children. Through these conversations; connections develop and opportunities emerge. In time, my perception of ASCD shifted from viewing it as a large national organization that I benefited from as a member, to an accessible network of colleagues with whom I could collaborate and share."- Tony Frontier, 2007 Emerging Leader   3. How would someone know if he/she is a good fit for the Emerging Leaders program? Are you passionate? Are you hard-working? Are you willing to get yourself to events where you can network with other leaders (certain conferences, etc.)? Are you in need of a push to do some of the things you've been wanting to do, like get more involved with ASCD, write for some of their publications, etc.? Then the Emerging Leaders program is for you!- Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader    "If you find yourself constantly thinking about school reform and how you can use your experience and voice to empower others, you might be ready for ASCD's Emerging Leaders program. Being an emerging leader is about a commitment to the mission of ASCD and knowing that we are not only teachers, but we are also leaders who can touch the future in ways we may never realize. Being an emerging leader is a calling to share your passion as an educator every day and in every forum." - Dave Scott, 2008 Emerging Leader, excerpt from his Whole Child Blog post "Touching the Future"   Are you an Emerging Leader?   4. Complete this sentence: The Emerging Leader program is not… "Easy. It has been a lot of work to do the things that I took on as my Emerging Leaders goals (such as drafting an article to submit to ASCD Express, preparing a presentation for the annual conference, trying to stay in touch with my local affiliate, etc.) But I hope that by the end of my 2 years, I will feel that the time I have invested has been worth it." - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   Want to learn more? Program information and the online application are now available at http://www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Applications close April 1.   Questions? E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org. Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:34:48 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_You-Learn-You-Teach-Now-Lead-Emerging-Leader-Applications-Close-41/blog/5884603/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-03-21T23:34:48Z ASCD EDge Each year, ASCD inducts a new class of Emerging Leaders. These educators are driven, accomplished, diverse, and passionate, and they're ready to get more involved with ASCD.   ASCD is accepting applications until April 1. But how do you know if you or your colleague is a good fit for the program? We thought some current and former Emerging Leaders would be the best people to help answer that question.   1. What would you tell someone who is considering applying for the ASCD Emerging Leaders program? "Do it! I wasn't sure if I was 'qualified enough' to be accepted, and I was. It's totally worth a try because you get to do some neat stuff if you are accepted!"  - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   What kind of neat stuff, you ask? Check out some of the things ASCD Emerging Leaders have done: Received waived registration to attend the invitation-only Leader to Leader (L2L) Conference Elected to the ASCD Leadership Council as a Member at Large Elected as ASCD affiliate presidents and presidents-elect Wrote for the ASCD Inservice blog Featured in Educational Leadership Contributed to Educational Leadership's Among Colleagues column Vlogged and blogged on ASCD EDge Wrote a column for EdTech Digest Wrote a story for ASCD Express Guest-posted on Rick Hess' EdWeek blog Featured in the Christian Science Monitor's "30 Ideas From People Under 30" series Served on the Emerging Leaders Selection Committee Served on the ASCD Annual Conference Planning Committee Coached Emerging Leaders as alumni of the program This weekend, Emerging Leaders will also give Ignite presentations at a special session at ASCD Annual Conference on Friday afternoon from 1-4 pm on March 23. Would you like to join us? RSVP here to attend.    2. What is your favorite part of the ASCD Emerging Leaders program? "I enjoy that I have been able to network with other young education leaders who share my passion for finding the best ways to teach children and help teachers do the best job they can. I have had several opportunities to do this so far, and I know there are more to come." - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   "I can say without any reservation that the best part of the Emerging Leader program is the cameraderie with the other Emerging Leaders!! [Social networking] has been a great way for us to connect and continue discussions throughout the year." - Christina Yuknis, 2011 Emerging Leader   "The Emerging Leaders program is an opportunity to be a part of the conversation among leaders who are working at the highest levels to improve practices and policies that impact children. Through these conversations; connections develop and opportunities emerge. In time, my perception of ASCD shifted from viewing it as a large national organization that I benefited from as a member, to an accessible network of colleagues with whom I could collaborate and share."- Tony Frontier, 2007 Emerging Leader   3. How would someone know if he/she is a good fit for the Emerging Leaders program? Are you passionate? Are you hard-working? Are you willing to get yourself to events where you can network with other leaders (certain conferences, etc.)? Are you in need of a push to do some of the things you've been wanting to do, like get more involved with ASCD, write for some of their publications, etc.? Then the Emerging Leaders program is for you!- Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader    "If you find yourself constantly thinking about school reform and how you can use your experience and voice to empower others, you might be ready for ASCD's Emerging Leaders program. Being an emerging leader is about a commitment to the mission of ASCD and knowing that we are not only teachers, but we are also leaders who can touch the future in ways we may never realize. Being an emerging leader is a calling to share your passion as an educator every day and in every forum." - Dave Scott, 2008 Emerging Leader, excerpt from his Whole Child Blog post "Touching the Future"   Are you an Emerging Leader?   4. Complete this sentence: The Emerging Leader program is not… "Easy. It has been a lot of work to do the things that I took on as my Emerging Leaders goals (such as drafting an article to submit to ASCD Express, preparing a presentation for the annual conference, trying to stay in touch with my local affiliate, etc.) But I hope that by the end of my 2 years, I will feel that the time I have invested has been worth it." - Amy Vanden Boogart, 2011 Emerging Leader   Want to learn more? 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To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Nominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders Class of 2012. ASCD is seeking innovative, driven educators with 5–15 years of experience who wish to demonstrate their passion for learning, teaching, and leading through ASCD’s two-year leadership program. Learn more and access the online Emerging Leaders program application at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Online applications for the class of 2012 are open until April 1. E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org to nominate a colleague; please include the nominee’s name and e-mail address in your nomination.  Review the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution for the upcoming vote. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution in early May 2012. Click on www.ascd.org/governance to read a message from President Paul Healey and to access a copy of the ASCD Constitution with the proposed new language. Information on how to vote on these changes will be available in the May issue of the L2L news.  You’re invited to attend a special Annual Conference session on Friday afternoon, March 23, from 1:00-4:00 p.m.. RSVP here to attend, (space is limited; RSVP required). With the motto of “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” this event is the first of its kind for ASCD, and it’s not your typical conference session. ASCD Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters will present a series of five-minute Ignite presentations in room 103C at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. After cheering on the presenters, attendees will participate in a fast-paced, hands-on networking activity.Check out the agenda for this session, and RSVP today!  Can’t go to conference? Attend virtually! ASCD will be offering a package of 22 Annual Conference sessions streamed live from Philadelphia, March 24-26. The sessions, covering 30 hours of content, will also be archived for participants to view up to 6 months after the event. Learn more.  Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future” until May 15. Visit the ascd.org website for more information and to access the online submission form.  Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme related articles for Special Topics. View complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines at ASCD.org.   Touching the Future: An Emerging Leader’s Story 2008 ASCD Emerging Leader David Scott shared his story on the Whole Child Blog about what being an Emerging Leader means to him. Read his story, and feel free to share it with anyone who might consider applying to the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. Remember, the deadline is April 1. Applications and program information are available online at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders.   Illinois ASCD Promotes Whole Child Education Illinois ASCD, with support from the ASCD policy team, successfully introduced whole child resolutions that were passed earlier this month by both the Illinois House (HR 0781) and Senate (SR 0545). The resolutions recognize March as Illinois Whole Child Month and call on parents, educators, and communities to work together to support a whole child education that ensures each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The House resolution also encourages every Illinois school to celebrate Illinois Whole Child Month by adopting at least one of the five whole child tenets to promote and encourage throughout the month.  L2L Leaders in Illinois: How are you celebrating Whole Child Month? Share how you’re promoting one or more of the framework’s tenets (healthy, safe, engaged, supported, challenged) with ASCD by sending your stories to  policy@ascd.org.   Iowa ASCD Takes to the Hill! Iowa ASCD hosted an advocacy and influence workshop and visits with state legislators last month. ASCD Public Policy Director David Griffith shared his perspective on how national education legislation affects Iowa’s learners and educators and provided advocacy tips for communicating with legislators and their staffers. Then Iowa educators met with their state senators and representatives to discuss a variety of education policy and funding issues, including educator evaluation, professional development, end-of-course exams, competency-based education, and 3rd grade retention. During their discussions, advocates drew from Iowa ASCD’s Legislative Agenda, which supports policies that ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged as well as prepared to graduate ready for the demands of college, career, and citizenship.   Western Oregon University Student Chapter, Oregon ASCD, and OYEA Winner Provide Valuable Experiences for Preservice Educators ASCD Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Hilda Roselli and Student Chapter President Haley Christensen recently shared some highlights from their student chapter activities, which includes hosting an event for a state legislator to speak to students, faculty, and community members about education legislation and what it means for teachers. Western Oregon University (WOU) ASCD Student Chapter also recently partnered with Oregon ASCD to host a preservice conference for over 300 participants where 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winner Brad Kuntz presented a keynote on project-based learning. Western Oregon University Student Chapter is currently planning a series of panels for students regarding careers in ESOL, special education, and charter schools, and six students will be attending Annual Conference in Philadelphia next week. If you’d like to learn more about WOU’s student chapter activities, contact Faculty Advisor Hilda Roselli.   Events Arizona ASCD presents their Spring Conference: Building Teacher Teams to Strengthen Student Success. California ASCD presents Maximize Learning with Common Core and 21st Century Skills with Sue Beers. Hawaii ASCD presents Brain-STEM: The S.T.R.E.A.M. Model for Learning with Ken Wesson. Illinois ASCD hosts the 31stAnnual Conference for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Educators (PDF) and a Common Core Standards Conference. New Hampshire ASCD hosts a Math Common Core Workshop for Middle/High School Teachers and a Professional Learning Community Summer Institute. Oklahoma ASCD hosts their spring conference. Rhode Island ASCD presents an Authors Forum Dinner with Mike Anderson, author of The Well-Balanced Teacher: How to Work  Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out. Singapore ASCD recently held their 23rd Annual General Meeting. South Carolina presents Curriculum 21: Essential Education in a Changing World with Heidi Hayes Jacobs Tennessee ASCD presents their summer institute. Texas ASCD presents a Curriculum Leadership Academy Vermont ASCD presents Managing for Today, Leading for Tomorrow with Ray McNulty; Ignite21st Century Teacher Recognition and Conference; and EdCamp Vermont.     Other News 2010 OYEA Winner Brian Nichols recently posted several blog entries on ASCD EDge. Check them out: Excellence is Never an Accident 5 Questions to Test Your Leadership Visibility Surviving a Leadership Undercurrent 6 Leadership Lessons From Dr. Seuss 5 iPad Apps That Bring the News to You Leap Before You Look Please join us in welcoming the Teacher Evaluation ASCD Professional Interest Community to the L2L community. David Silverberg is the PIC facilitator. Please friend him on ASCD EDge and say hello! Hawaii ASCD recently presented their Emerging Scholar Award to Kathryn Muller, a beginning elementary teacher at Liholiho School. Kathryn will receive complimentary travel and registration to accompany the Hawaii ASCD board to ASCD Annual Conference. Congratulations to Kathryn! California ASCD would like to announce their Outstanding Instructional Leader of the Year Award recipient, George Manthey. George received the award in recognition of his long-standing achievements in California education and his dedication to educating the whole child. Congratulations to George! New Jersey ASCD recently hosted a Common Core series for administrators (PDF). Contact NJASCD Executive Director Marie Adair for more information about how they put these events together. Nancy Cotter recently retired after serving 12 years as Alabama ASCD Executive Director. She has been a member of ASCD for 36 years and a member of Alabama ASCD since its inception. Nancy will continue to serve the affiliate in an emeritus leadership role, and Jane Cobia will replace Nancy Cotter as Alabama ASCD Executive Director. Connecticut ASCD just launched a new website. New York State ASCD President John Bell attended MSNBC's Morning Joe show on Friday, March 2, 2012, at Fort Lee High School in Fort Lee, N.J., on behalf of the ASCD affiliate. John reported back, “It was great! I got to speak with Mike Barnacle from the Boston Globe and John Meachem, formerly of Newsweek. I got to shake hands with Joe Scarborough. I got to speak with the Delaware Governor for a few minutes as well. It was a well done event!” South Carolina ASCD Executive Director Charlene Herring was recently selected as one of the 50 Most Influential People of Columbia, South Carolina. Congratulations to Charlene!   Throughout March on www.wholechildeducation.org : Whole Child Examples March is a special month at ASCD, as we hold our Annual Conference and celebrate excellence in education. In the coming weeks, we will honor our 2012 Outstanding Young Educator Award recipients, our ASCD Affiliate Overall Excellence Award recipient, and our 2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award winner. We'll also spend this month on the whole child website honoring excellence and reflecting on the qualities that make a good school a good school and a good community a good community—even where the context and culture may differ dramatically. Whether your school is in Berlin, Sydney, Ramallah, or Omaha, a whole child approach to education and community engagement—in which each child, in each school and each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—ensures student growth, learning, and development. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast where we explore schools and communities across the world that emphasize providing safe and supportive learning environments and experiences for students and talk with Whole Child Partner organizations that are promoting and guiding their work. Read the Whole Child Blog and subscribe to the Whole Child Newsletter to stay up-to-date and join the conversation. Be sure to visit our updated Whole Child Examples Map where you can find examples of schools and communities worldwide that are actively developing learners who are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically active, artistically engaged, prepared for economic self-sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond formal schooling. Each example highlights a program, focus, or achievement with links to more information.     Something to Talk About The Truth About Restructuring,ASCD Inservice Seven Guiding Principles to “Teaching Up,”ASCD Inservice Not If, But How: The Common Core, David Griffith’s guest post for the National Journal Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Byrne Creek Secondary School Named 2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award Winner—Byrne Creek Secondary School, located in Burnaby, British Columbia, is the 2012 winner of the association’s Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. Principal David Rawnsley is scheduled to accept the award on behalf of Byrne Creek from ASCD Executive Director and CEO Dr. Gene Carter at ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sunday, March 25. Byrne Creek Secondary School is the first Canadian school to receive this prestigious award. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. One-Day Passes Now Available for ASCD’s 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa.—In an effort to provide educators at all levels even greater flexibility in attending one of education’s most powerful professional development events, ASCD announced today that one-day passes are available for its upcoming 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD Offers New Institute Series and Free Webinars to Help Educators Nationwide Implement Common Core Standards—ASCD introduces two new institute series and free webinars to help educators nationwide implement the new Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Free Professional Development Content from ASCD Now Available on the New iTunes U—ASCD is pleased to announce it has made a variety of free professional development content available on the new iTunes U. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Partner to Launch New PD Online® Course—ASCD and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the premier professional association for school district technology leaders, have launched a new PD Online course titled From Vision to Action: The 21st Century Teaching and Learning Plan. Read the full press release on ASCD.org.   ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Nominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders Class of 2012. ASCD is seeking innovative, driven educators with 5–15 years of experience who wish to demonstrate their passion for learning, teaching, and leading through ASCD’s two-year leadership program. Learn more and access the online Emerging Leaders program application at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Online applications for the class of 2012 are open until April 1. E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org to nominate a colleague; please include the nominee’s name and e-mail address in your nomination.  Review the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution for the upcoming vote. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution in early May 2012. Click on www.ascd.org/governance to read a message from President Paul Healey and to access a copy of the ASCD Constitution with the proposed new language. Information on how to vote on these changes will be available in the May issue of the L2L news.  You’re invited to attend a special Annual Conference session on Friday afternoon, March 23, from 1:00-4:00 p.m.. RSVP here to attend, (space is limited; RSVP required). With the motto of “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” this event is the first of its kind for ASCD, and it’s not your typical conference session. ASCD Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters will present a series of five-minute Ignite presentations in room 103C at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. After cheering on the presenters, attendees will participate in a fast-paced, hands-on networking activity.Check out the agenda for this session, and RSVP today!  Can’t go to conference? Attend virtually! ASCD will be offering a package of 22 Annual Conference sessions streamed live from Philadelphia, March 24-26. The sessions, covering 30 hours of content, will also be archived for participants to view up to 6 months after the event. Learn more.  Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future” until May 15. Visit the ascd.org website for more information and to access the online submission form.  Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme related articles for Special Topics. View complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines at ASCD.org.   Touching the Future: An Emerging Leader’s Story 2008 ASCD Emerging Leader David Scott shared his story on the Whole Child Blog about what being an Emerging Leader means to him. Read his story, and feel free to share it with anyone who might consider applying to the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. Remember, the deadline is April 1. Applications and program information are available online at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders.   Illinois ASCD Promotes Whole Child Education Illinois ASCD, with support from the ASCD policy team, successfully introduced whole child resolutions that were passed earlier this month by both the Illinois House (HR 0781) and Senate (SR 0545). The resolutions recognize March as Illinois Whole Child Month and call on parents, educators, and communities to work together to support a whole child education that ensures each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The House resolution also encourages every Illinois school to celebrate Illinois Whole Child Month by adopting at least one of the five whole child tenets to promote and encourage throughout the month.  L2L Leaders in Illinois: How are you celebrating Whole Child Month? Share how you’re promoting one or more of the framework’s tenets (healthy, safe, engaged, supported, challenged) with ASCD by sending your stories to  policy@ascd.org.   Iowa ASCD Takes to the Hill! Iowa ASCD hosted an advocacy and influence workshop and visits with state legislators last month. ASCD Public Policy Director David Griffith shared his perspective on how national education legislation affects Iowa’s learners and educators and provided advocacy tips for communicating with legislators and their staffers. Then Iowa educators met with their state senators and representatives to discuss a variety of education policy and funding issues, including educator evaluation, professional development, end-of-course exams, competency-based education, and 3rd grade retention. During their discussions, advocates drew from Iowa ASCD’s Legislative Agenda, which supports policies that ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged as well as prepared to graduate ready for the demands of college, career, and citizenship.   Western Oregon University Student Chapter, Oregon ASCD, and OYEA Winner Provide Valuable Experiences for Preservice Educators ASCD Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Hilda Roselli and Student Chapter President Haley Christensen recently shared some highlights from their student chapter activities, which includes hosting an event for a state legislator to speak to students, faculty, and community members about education legislation and what it means for teachers. Western Oregon University (WOU) ASCD Student Chapter also recently partnered with Oregon ASCD to host a preservice conference for over 300 participants where 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winner Brad Kuntz presented a keynote on project-based learning. Western Oregon University Student Chapter is currently planning a series of panels for students regarding careers in ESOL, special education, and charter schools, and six students will be attending Annual Conference in Philadelphia next week. If you’d like to learn more about WOU’s student chapter activities, contact Faculty Advisor Hilda Roselli.   Events Arizona ASCD presents their Spring Conference: Building Teacher Teams to Strengthen Student Success. California ASCD presents Maximize Learning with Common Core and 21st Century Skills with Sue Beers. Hawaii ASCD presents Brain-STEM: The S.T.R.E.A.M. Model for Learning with Ken Wesson. Illinois ASCD hosts the 31stAnnual Conference for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Educators (PDF) and a Common Core Standards Conference. New Hampshire ASCD hosts a Math Common Core Workshop for Middle/High School Teachers and a Professional Learning Community Summer Institute. Oklahoma ASCD hosts their spring conference. Rhode Island ASCD presents an Authors Forum Dinner with Mike Anderson, author of The Well-Balanced Teacher: How to Work  Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out. Singapore ASCD recently held their 23rd Annual General Meeting. South Carolina presents Curriculum 21: Essential Education in a Changing World with Heidi Hayes Jacobs Tennessee ASCD presents their summer institute. Texas ASCD presents a Curriculum Leadership Academy Vermont ASCD presents Managing for Today, Leading for Tomorrow with Ray McNulty; Ignite21st Century Teacher Recognition and Conference; and EdCamp Vermont.     Other News 2010 OYEA Winner Brian Nichols recently posted several blog entries on ASCD EDge. Check them out: Excellence is Never an Accident 5 Questions to Test Your Leadership Visibility Surviving a Leadership Undercurrent 6 Leadership Lessons From Dr. Seuss 5 iPad Apps That Bring the News to You Leap Before You Look Please join us in welcoming the Teacher Evaluation ASCD Professional Interest Community to the L2L community. David Silverberg is the PIC facilitator. Please friend him on ASCD EDge and say hello! Hawaii ASCD recently presented their Emerging Scholar Award to Kathryn Muller, a beginning elementary teacher at Liholiho School. Kathryn will receive complimentary travel and registration to accompany the Hawaii ASCD board to ASCD Annual Conference. Congratulations to Kathryn! California ASCD would like to announce their Outstanding Instructional Leader of the Year Award recipient, George Manthey. George received the award in recognition of his long-standing achievements in California education and his dedication to educating the whole child. Congratulations to George! New Jersey ASCD recently hosted a Common Core series for administrators (PDF). Contact NJASCD Executive Director Marie Adair for more information about how they put these events together. Nancy Cotter recently retired after serving 12 years as Alabama ASCD Executive Director. She has been a member of ASCD for 36 years and a member of Alabama ASCD since its inception. Nancy will continue to serve the affiliate in an emeritus leadership role, and Jane Cobia will replace Nancy Cotter as Alabama ASCD Executive Director. Connecticut ASCD just launched a new website. New York State ASCD President John Bell attended MSNBC's Morning Joe show on Friday, March 2, 2012, at Fort Lee High School in Fort Lee, N.J., on behalf of the ASCD affiliate. John reported back, “It was great! I got to speak with Mike Barnacle from the Boston Globe and John Meachem, formerly of Newsweek. I got to shake hands with Joe Scarborough. I got to speak with the Delaware Governor for a few minutes as well. It was a well done event!” South Carolina ASCD Executive Director Charlene Herring was recently selected as one of the 50 Most Influential People of Columbia, South Carolina. Congratulations to Charlene!   Throughout March on www.wholechildeducation.org : Whole Child Examples March is a special month at ASCD, as we hold our Annual Conference and celebrate excellence in education. In the coming weeks, we will honor our 2012 Outstanding Young Educator Award recipients, our ASCD Affiliate Overall Excellence Award recipient, and our 2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award winner. We'll also spend this month on the whole child website honoring excellence and reflecting on the qualities that make a good school a good school and a good community a good community—even where the context and culture may differ dramatically. Whether your school is in Berlin, Sydney, Ramallah, or Omaha, a whole child approach to education and community engagement—in which each child, in each school and each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—ensures student growth, learning, and development. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast where we explore schools and communities across the world that emphasize providing safe and supportive learning environments and experiences for students and talk with Whole Child Partner organizations that are promoting and guiding their work. Read the Whole Child Blog and subscribe to the Whole Child Newsletter to stay up-to-date and join the conversation. Be sure to visit our updated Whole Child Examples Map where you can find examples of schools and communities worldwide that are actively developing learners who are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically active, artistically engaged, prepared for economic self-sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond formal schooling. Each example highlights a program, focus, or achievement with links to more information.     Something to Talk About The Truth About Restructuring,ASCD Inservice Seven Guiding Principles to “Teaching Up,”ASCD Inservice Not If, But How: The Common Core, David Griffith’s guest post for the National Journal Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Byrne Creek Secondary School Named 2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award Winner—Byrne Creek Secondary School, located in Burnaby, British Columbia, is the 2012 winner of the association’s Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. Principal David Rawnsley is scheduled to accept the award on behalf of Byrne Creek from ASCD Executive Director and CEO Dr. Gene Carter at ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sunday, March 25. Byrne Creek Secondary School is the first Canadian school to receive this prestigious award. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. One-Day Passes Now Available for ASCD’s 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa.—In an effort to provide educators at all levels even greater flexibility in attending one of education’s most powerful professional development events, ASCD announced today that one-day passes are available for its upcoming 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD Offers New Institute Series and Free Webinars to Help Educators Nationwide Implement Common Core Standards—ASCD introduces two new institute series and free webinars to help educators nationwide implement the new Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Free Professional Development Content from ASCD Now Available on the New iTunes U—ASCD is pleased to announce it has made a variety of free professional development content available on the new iTunes U. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Partner to Launch New PD Online® Course—ASCD and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the premier professional association for school district technology leaders, have launched a new PD Online course titled From Vision to Action: The 21st Century Teaching and Learning Plan. Read the full press release on ASCD.org.   Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:25:50 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_Leader-to-Leader-L2L-News-March-2012/blog/5865733/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-03-15T20:25:50Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Nominate a colleague for the ASCD Emerging Leaders Class of 2012. ASCD is seeking innovative, driven educators with 5–15 years of experience who wish to demonstrate their passion for learning, teaching, and leading through ASCD’s two-year leadership program. Learn more and access the online Emerging Leaders program application at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Online applications for the class of 2012 are open until April 1. E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org to nominate a colleague; please include the nominee’s name and e-mail address in your nomination.  Review the proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution for the upcoming vote. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to the ASCD Constitution in early May 2012. Click on www.ascd.org/governance to read a message from President Paul Healey and to access a copy of the ASCD Constitution with the proposed new language. Information on how to vote on these changes will be available in the May issue of the L2L news.  You’re invited to attend a special Annual Conference session on Friday afternoon, March 23, from 1:00-4:00 p.m.. RSVP here to attend, (space is limited; RSVP required). With the motto of “Enlighten us, but make it quick,” this event is the first of its kind for ASCD, and it’s not your typical conference session. ASCD Emerging Leaders and Student Chapters will present a series of five-minute Ignite presentations in room 103C at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. After cheering on the presenters, attendees will participate in a fast-paced, hands-on networking activity.Check out the agenda for this session, and RSVP today!  Can’t go to conference? Attend virtually! ASCD will be offering a package of 22 Annual Conference sessions streamed live from Philadelphia, March 24-26. The sessions, covering 30 hours of content, will also be archived for participants to view up to 6 months after the event. Learn more.  Submit a proposal for the 2013 ASCD Annual Conference. ASCD is accepting proposals for the 2013 Annual Conference themed “Learning: Our Story. Our Time. Our Future” until May 15. Visit the ascd.org website for more information and to access the online submission form.  Write for Educational Leadership. Would you like to publish a manuscript in Educational Leadership? ASCD is looking for high-quality, original submissions that shed light on our monthly themes. We will also consider non-theme related articles for Special Topics. View complete list of our upcoming 2012–13 themes and deadlines at ASCD.org.   Touching the Future: An Emerging Leader’s Story 2008 ASCD Emerging Leader David Scott shared his story on the Whole Child Blog about what being an Emerging Leader means to him. Read his story, and feel free to share it with anyone who might consider applying to the ASCD Emerging Leaders program. Remember, the deadline is April 1. Applications and program information are available online at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders.   Illinois ASCD Promotes Whole Child Education Illinois ASCD, with support from the ASCD policy team, successfully introduced whole child resolutions that were passed earlier this month by both the Illinois House (HR 0781) and Senate (SR 0545). The resolutions recognize March as Illinois Whole Child Month and call on parents, educators, and communities to work together to support a whole child education that ensures each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. The House resolution also encourages every Illinois school to celebrate Illinois Whole Child Month by adopting at least one of the five whole child tenets to promote and encourage throughout the month.  L2L Leaders in Illinois: How are you celebrating Whole Child Month? Share how you’re promoting one or more of the framework’s tenets (healthy, safe, engaged, supported, challenged) with ASCD by sending your stories to  policy@ascd.org.   Iowa ASCD Takes to the Hill! Iowa ASCD hosted an advocacy and influence workshop and visits with state legislators last month. ASCD Public Policy Director David Griffith shared his perspective on how national education legislation affects Iowa’s learners and educators and provided advocacy tips for communicating with legislators and their staffers. Then Iowa educators met with their state senators and representatives to discuss a variety of education policy and funding issues, including educator evaluation, professional development, end-of-course exams, competency-based education, and 3rd grade retention. During their discussions, advocates drew from Iowa ASCD’s Legislative Agenda, which supports policies that ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged as well as prepared to graduate ready for the demands of college, career, and citizenship.   Western Oregon University Student Chapter, Oregon ASCD, and OYEA Winner Provide Valuable Experiences for Preservice Educators ASCD Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Hilda Roselli and Student Chapter President Haley Christensen recently shared some highlights from their student chapter activities, which includes hosting an event for a state legislator to speak to students, faculty, and community members about education legislation and what it means for teachers. Western Oregon University (WOU) ASCD Student Chapter also recently partnered with Oregon ASCD to host a preservice conference for over 300 participants where 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Winner Brad Kuntz presented a keynote on project-based learning. Western Oregon University Student Chapter is currently planning a series of panels for students regarding careers in ESOL, special education, and charter schools, and six students will be attending Annual Conference in Philadelphia next week. If you’d like to learn more about WOU’s student chapter activities, contact Faculty Advisor Hilda Roselli.   Events Arizona ASCD presents their Spring Conference: Building Teacher Teams to Strengthen Student Success. California ASCD presents Maximize Learning with Common Core and 21st Century Skills with Sue Beers. Hawaii ASCD presents Brain-STEM: The S.T.R.E.A.M. Model for Learning with Ken Wesson. Illinois ASCD hosts the 31stAnnual Conference for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Educators (PDF) and a Common Core Standards Conference. New Hampshire ASCD hosts a Math Common Core Workshop for Middle/High School Teachers and a Professional Learning Community Summer Institute. Oklahoma ASCD hosts their spring conference. Rhode Island ASCD presents an Authors Forum Dinner with Mike Anderson, author of The Well-Balanced Teacher: How to Work  Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out. Singapore ASCD recently held their 23rd Annual General Meeting. South Carolina presents Curriculum 21: Essential Education in a Changing World with Heidi Hayes Jacobs Tennessee ASCD presents their summer institute. Texas ASCD presents a Curriculum Leadership Academy Vermont ASCD presents Managing for Today, Leading for Tomorrow with Ray McNulty; Ignite21st Century Teacher Recognition and Conference; and EdCamp Vermont.     Other News 2010 OYEA Winner Brian Nichols recently posted several blog entries on ASCD EDge. Check them out: Excellence is Never an Accident 5 Questions to Test Your Leadership Visibility Surviving a Leadership Undercurrent 6 Leadership Lessons From Dr. Seuss 5 iPad Apps That Bring the News to You Leap Before You Look Please join us in welcoming the Teacher Evaluation ASCD Professional Interest Community to the L2L community. David Silverberg is the PIC facilitator. Please friend him on ASCD EDge and say hello! Hawaii ASCD recently presented their Emerging Scholar Award to Kathryn Muller, a beginning elementary teacher at Liholiho School. Kathryn will receive complimentary travel and registration to accompany the Hawaii ASCD board to ASCD Annual Conference. Congratulations to Kathryn! California ASCD would like to announce their Outstanding Instructional Leader of the Year Award recipient, George Manthey. George received the award in recognition of his long-standing achievements in California education and his dedication to educating the whole child. Congratulations to George! New Jersey ASCD recently hosted a Common Core series for administrators (PDF). Contact NJASCD Executive Director Marie Adair for more information about how they put these events together. Nancy Cotter recently retired after serving 12 years as Alabama ASCD Executive Director. She has been a member of ASCD for 36 years and a member of Alabama ASCD since its inception. Nancy will continue to serve the affiliate in an emeritus leadership role, and Jane Cobia will replace Nancy Cotter as Alabama ASCD Executive Director. Connecticut ASCD just launched a new website. New York State ASCD President John Bell attended MSNBC's Morning Joe show on Friday, March 2, 2012, at Fort Lee High School in Fort Lee, N.J., on behalf of the ASCD affiliate. John reported back, “It was great! I got to speak with Mike Barnacle from the Boston Globe and John Meachem, formerly of Newsweek. I got to shake hands with Joe Scarborough. I got to speak with the Delaware Governor for a few minutes as well. It was a well done event!” South Carolina ASCD Executive Director Charlene Herring was recently selected as one of the 50 Most Influential People of Columbia, South Carolina. Congratulations to Charlene!   Throughout March on www.wholechildeducation.org : Whole Child Examples March is a special month at ASCD, as we hold our Annual Conference and celebrate excellence in education. In the coming weeks, we will honor our 2012 Outstanding Young Educator Award recipients, our ASCD Affiliate Overall Excellence Award recipient, and our 2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award winner. We'll also spend this month on the whole child website honoring excellence and reflecting on the qualities that make a good school a good school and a good community a good community—even where the context and culture may differ dramatically. Whether your school is in Berlin, Sydney, Ramallah, or Omaha, a whole child approach to education and community engagement—in which each child, in each school and each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged—ensures student growth, learning, and development. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast where we explore schools and communities across the world that emphasize providing safe and supportive learning environments and experiences for students and talk with Whole Child Partner organizations that are promoting and guiding their work. Read the Whole Child Blog and subscribe to the Whole Child Newsletter to stay up-to-date and join the conversation. Be sure to visit our updated Whole Child Examples Map where you can find examples of schools and communities worldwide that are actively developing learners who are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically active, artistically engaged, prepared for economic self-sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond formal schooling. Each example highlights a program, focus, or achievement with links to more information.     Something to Talk About The Truth About Restructuring,ASCD Inservice Seven Guiding Principles to “Teaching Up,”ASCD Inservice Not If, But How: The Common Core, David Griffith’s guest post for the National Journal Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Byrne Creek Secondary School Named 2012 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award Winner—Byrne Creek Secondary School, located in Burnaby, British Columbia, is the 2012 winner of the association’s Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. Principal David Rawnsley is scheduled to accept the award on behalf of Byrne Creek from ASCD Executive Director and CEO Dr. Gene Carter at ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sunday, March 25. Byrne Creek Secondary School is the first Canadian school to receive this prestigious award. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. One-Day Passes Now Available for ASCD’s 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa.—In an effort to provide educators at all levels even greater flexibility in attending one of education’s most powerful professional development events, ASCD announced today that one-day passes are available for its upcoming 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD Offers New Institute Series and Free Webinars to Help Educators Nationwide Implement Common Core Standards—ASCD introduces two new institute series and free webinars to help educators nationwide implement the new Common Core State Standards. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Free Professional Development Content from ASCD Now Available on the New iTunes U—ASCD is pleased to announce it has made a variety of free professional development content available on the new iTunes U. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Partner to Launch New PD Online® Course—ASCD and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the premier professional association for school district technology leaders, have launched a new PD Online course titled From Vision to Action: The 21st Century Teaching and Learning Plan. 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Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Ask for a Whole Child Council Today. Only two days remain to tell Washington leaders to focus on what really matters―our children’s long-term futures―by creating a President’s Council on the Whole Child. You know the whole child approach to education works; now tell the president how he can help, and ask your colleagues to do the same. Thank you for your support and persistence. (Please note: For best results, use Internet Explorer to view the site.)Join these ASCD leaders and take action:Tony Frontier asks you to sign the petition today.Jason Flom knows that students are more than just test scores.Marnie Hazelton knows a whole child approach to education works. Have you seen a whole child approach to education in action? Whole Child Programs continues to seek your submissions of schools, districts, and communities that have been awarded or recognized by constituent group leaders, for inclusion on the whole child approach examples map.  Please review the criteria, complete the submission form, and send your suggestions to wholechild@ascd.org. We would like this to be an ongoing process, so as you continue to recognize schools, districts, and communities that are doing great work in whole child education, please consider sharing with us.  Register for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD Annual Conference takes place March 24-26, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pa. Discounts apply for purchasing a Pre-Conference Institute registration or sending a team. Details about meetings and events for ASCD leaders are listed below. Learn more and register for ASCD Annual Conference at ASCD.org. Upcoming vote on  proposed changes to ASCD’s constitution. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to ASCD’s Constitution in early May 2012. Additional information about the changes and how to access the online ballot will be available in March.  Emerging Leaders program applications are now available. ASCD is seeking passionate, driven educators with 5-15 years of experience who wish to demonstrate their passion for learning, teaching, and leading through ASCD’s 2-year leadership program. Learn more and access the online Emerging Leaders program application at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Online applications for the class of 2012 are open until April 1. E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org to nominate a colleague; please include the nominee’s name and e-mail address in your nomination.       Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Community 2011 Emerging Leader Featured in Christian Science Monitor Jennifer Pellegrine, a 2011 Emerging Leader, was featured with several other educators in the Christian Science Monitor series “Thirty Ideas from People Under 30.” According to the article, “Jennifer Pellegrine’s turning point came when she discovered the importance of giving students multiple chances to master skills.” Read the full article.   Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Program Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary Ten years ago, ASCD granted its first $10,000 award to an outstanding young educator. To celebrate this milestone, ASCD is featuring past winners on the ASCD Inservice blog in the weeks leading up to Annual Conference, when this year’s 2012 winners will be announced. Read 2005 OYEA winner Pete Hall’s post on the importance of listening to students.   Bahamas ASCD Connected Community Hosts Inaugural Conference The Bahamas ASCD Connected Community hosted its inaugural conference, “Instruction That Produces Desired Results for the 21st Century Learner” on October 15th, 2011. Elma Garraway, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education; Lionel Sands, Director of Education at the Ministry of Education, and Walter McKenzie, Director of Constituent Services for ASCD, each spoke to conference attendees about the significance of the work Bahamas ASCD is doing on behalf of educators. Approximately 100 education professionals and education majors at the College of the Bahamas participated in the workshop sessions. This was a significant turnout on a Saturday after a national holiday! Session presenters were local educators who excel in their areas of expertise, and they focused on how educators can help students achieve the best possible results on the Bahamas national examinations, inEnglish language, mathematics and technology, from elementary school to grade 12. The overall response to the first conference was very encouraging, and the event was well-covered by local print and broadcast media. As a result of the conference, Bahamas ASCD Connected Community received more than 50 applications for membership, as well as a significant number of college students joining as they see the benefits of being a part of a vibrant organization that can assist them in becoming first-class educators. For more information about the Bahamas ASCD Connected Community, contact Verneth Patterson.   Whole Child Resolution Introduced in Illinois Senate With the encouragement and help of Illinois ASCD and supported by the ASCD policy team, legislation to designate the month of March as Whole Child month was introduced in the Illinois Senate by state Senator Terry Link on January 31, 2012. Designated as SR0545, the resolution makes whole child education a state priority, recognizing that students need to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged to compete in today’s challenging global climate. The resolution also encourages parents, educators, and communities to support a whole child approach to education. A similar resolution will soon be introduced in the Illinois House of Representatives. Events ·         Missouri ASCD is hosting a State Board Dinner and Legislative Luncheon on February 21 and 22. ·         South Carolina ASCD hosted its third annual Student Conference on February 4. One hundred college students heard South Carolina Teacher of the Year Patty Tate speak, attended sessions, and interviewed for teaching positions with school districts from across the state. ·         New Jersey ASCD hosted a successful annual conference on January 18; 225 attendees participated in a day with Rick and Becky DuFour. ·         Ohio ASCD will host Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum, on May 16-18. ·         Washington State ASCD is hosting a Whole Child Conference on May 4 and 5.   Other News ·         New York ASCD Executive Director Anthony Mello announces his retirement, effective June 30.  In addition to serving in this role for the past 18 years, he also served on ASCD’s Board of Directors for several terms and chaired numerous committees.  “We will be forever indebted to Tony for his dedication and leadership to New York State ASCD,” said New York ASCD President John Bell. ·         ASCD Welcomes Kean University Student Chapter. Please join ASCD in welcoming Kean University to the ASCD Student Chapter program! Kean University established the student chapter to give students networking opportunities, access to current trends and resources in education, and the opportunity to develop their teaching portfolios. Kean University joins 70 other student chapters in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, visit www.ascd.org/chapters. ·         2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Luis Torres will speak about how he has worked to make P.S. 55, his school in the Bronx, N.Y. a truly community-based school, at the LinkEducation Expo on March 10 in New York City. Read his interview on the LinkEducation blog. ·         2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Christina Yuknis dutifully sent her thank-you notes to the representatives she visited during the ASCD Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) last month, and one of them responded seeking advice! Representative’s staff member asked Christina if she and ASCD staff would review some legislation regarding educational leadership. Great work, Christina! ·         2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro knows it only takes one person to make a difference…and she made a video to share her message. Check out her inspiring piece on ASCD EDge. ·         2009 OYEA Honoree Carrie Buck’s school, C.T. Sewell Elementary School in Nevada, was recently recognized for their math achievement and unique instruction methods. The school was featured on CBS, ABC, Fox, and Telemundo.   ASCD Educators Connect the Classroom to the Capitol Social media isn’t just a shift in communications―it’s a revolution that facilitates change from the ground up, explained Joe Trippi, former Howard Dean campaign manager, at ASCD’s recent 2012 Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), in Washington, D.C. Trippi encouraged educators to become part of the revolution and use social media to build their “army of Davids” and start “handing out slingshots.” At LILA, participants from across the country also got a first look at ASCD’s 2012 Legislative Agenda (PDF), which outlines the association’s 10 policy recommendations for Congress; heard presentations from national experts on a wide variety of crucial topics including the Common Core State Standards, Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization, and No Child Left Behind waivers; and participated in advocacy skill building sessions that prepared them for Capitol Hill meetings with federal lawmakers. Access follow-up resources from the conference.   Throughout February on www.wholechildeducation.org: Engaging Learning Strategies Learning is active, engaging, and social. Students need to be engaged and motivated in their learning before they can apply higher-order, creative-thinking skills. They are most engaged when they themselves are part of constructing meaning, instead of when teachers do it for them. By encouraging students to meet challenges creatively, collaborate, and apply critical thinking skills to real-world, unpredictable situations inside and outside of school, we prepare them for future college, career, and citizenship success.   Join us throughout February as we examine effective classroom instruction that embraces both high standards and accountability for students’ learning. Instruction can be project-based, focused on service and the community, experiential, cooperative, expeditionary—the list goes on. These engaging learning strategies are grounded in instructional objectives, provide clear feedback, and enable students to thrive cognitively, socially, emotionally, and civically.   Download the Whole Child Podcast to hear from researcher Shelley Billig, who has conducted national, state, and regional studies on service-learning; teacher, blogger, and ASCD Emerging Leader Jason Flom; and Dorvionne Lindsay, a student from the 2011 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Quest Early College High School. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on engaging learning strategies.   Something to Talk About ·         Top Inservice Posts of 2011 ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         New Exhibitors and Exciting Sessions Among the Highlights of Upcoming ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, “A Collective Call to Action,” now features more than 80 new exhibitors, a new and expanded ASCD Center, and a new generation of speakers and sessions addressing timely topics of interest to educators of every level. ASCD's 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show is being held in Philadelphia, Pa., March 24–26. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Author Vivien Stewart Paves the Way to a World-Class Education for All—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation by international education expert Vivien Stewart. Designed to spark meaningful dialogue, this book pays particular attention to current international best practices for developing and maintaining a high-quality teaching profession and to the implications of global trends for creating modern curriculum, instruction, and assessment systems for the 21st century. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Authors Publish Practical Guide for High-Poverty Schools Ready to Do Business Differently—Now off press, Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools by ASCD authors William Parrett and Kathleen Budge supports education leaders in changing school processes to help students living in poverty succeed. Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools is a guide that principals, teacher leaders, and district leaders can use to help close the achievement gap between students living in poverty and their more privileged peers. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Releases 2012 Legislative Agenda and Calls for Whole Child–Based Education Reforms—ASCD released its 2012 Legislative Agenda (PDF) outlining the association’s public policy priorities for the year. “At no other time has a high-quality education been more crucial to the nation and its children,” said David Griffith, ASCD director of public policy. “A quality education is the pathway to a successful future for students and society at large. We believe ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda provides a framework for improving education in America.” Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         Educators Nationwide Urged to Sign Petition Calling for President’s Council on the Whole Child—ASCD urges educators nationwide to sign a petition asking President Obama to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. The petition was launched through the White House’s We the People petition tool. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·     ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2012 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the it’s 2012 Virtual Conference. The 2012 Virtual Conference will run concurrently with ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 24–26 in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. If you have a question about the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Ask for a Whole Child Council Today. Only two days remain to tell Washington leaders to focus on what really matters―our children’s long-term futures―by creating a President’s Council on the Whole Child. You know the whole child approach to education works; now tell the president how he can help, and ask your colleagues to do the same. Thank you for your support and persistence. (Please note: For best results, use Internet Explorer to view the site.)Join these ASCD leaders and take action:Tony Frontier asks you to sign the petition today.Jason Flom knows that students are more than just test scores.Marnie Hazelton knows a whole child approach to education works. Have you seen a whole child approach to education in action? Whole Child Programs continues to seek your submissions of schools, districts, and communities that have been awarded or recognized by constituent group leaders, for inclusion on the whole child approach examples map.  Please review the criteria, complete the submission form, and send your suggestions to wholechild@ascd.org. We would like this to be an ongoing process, so as you continue to recognize schools, districts, and communities that are doing great work in whole child education, please consider sharing with us.  Register for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD Annual Conference takes place March 24-26, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pa. Discounts apply for purchasing a Pre-Conference Institute registration or sending a team. Details about meetings and events for ASCD leaders are listed below. Learn more and register for ASCD Annual Conference at ASCD.org. Upcoming vote on  proposed changes to ASCD’s constitution. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to ASCD’s Constitution in early May 2012. Additional information about the changes and how to access the online ballot will be available in March.  Emerging Leaders program applications are now available. ASCD is seeking passionate, driven educators with 5-15 years of experience who wish to demonstrate their passion for learning, teaching, and leading through ASCD’s 2-year leadership program. Learn more and access the online Emerging Leaders program application at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Online applications for the class of 2012 are open until April 1. E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org to nominate a colleague; please include the nominee’s name and e-mail address in your nomination.       Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Community 2011 Emerging Leader Featured in Christian Science Monitor Jennifer Pellegrine, a 2011 Emerging Leader, was featured with several other educators in the Christian Science Monitor series “Thirty Ideas from People Under 30.” According to the article, “Jennifer Pellegrine’s turning point came when she discovered the importance of giving students multiple chances to master skills.” Read the full article.   Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Program Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary Ten years ago, ASCD granted its first $10,000 award to an outstanding young educator. To celebrate this milestone, ASCD is featuring past winners on the ASCD Inservice blog in the weeks leading up to Annual Conference, when this year’s 2012 winners will be announced. Read 2005 OYEA winner Pete Hall’s post on the importance of listening to students.   Bahamas ASCD Connected Community Hosts Inaugural Conference The Bahamas ASCD Connected Community hosted its inaugural conference, “Instruction That Produces Desired Results for the 21st Century Learner” on October 15th, 2011. Elma Garraway, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education; Lionel Sands, Director of Education at the Ministry of Education, and Walter McKenzie, Director of Constituent Services for ASCD, each spoke to conference attendees about the significance of the work Bahamas ASCD is doing on behalf of educators. Approximately 100 education professionals and education majors at the College of the Bahamas participated in the workshop sessions. This was a significant turnout on a Saturday after a national holiday! Session presenters were local educators who excel in their areas of expertise, and they focused on how educators can help students achieve the best possible results on the Bahamas national examinations, inEnglish language, mathematics and technology, from elementary school to grade 12. The overall response to the first conference was very encouraging, and the event was well-covered by local print and broadcast media. As a result of the conference, Bahamas ASCD Connected Community received more than 50 applications for membership, as well as a significant number of college students joining as they see the benefits of being a part of a vibrant organization that can assist them in becoming first-class educators. For more information about the Bahamas ASCD Connected Community, contact Verneth Patterson.   Whole Child Resolution Introduced in Illinois Senate With the encouragement and help of Illinois ASCD and supported by the ASCD policy team, legislation to designate the month of March as Whole Child month was introduced in the Illinois Senate by state Senator Terry Link on January 31, 2012. Designated as SR0545, the resolution makes whole child education a state priority, recognizing that students need to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged to compete in today’s challenging global climate. The resolution also encourages parents, educators, and communities to support a whole child approach to education. A similar resolution will soon be introduced in the Illinois House of Representatives. Events ·         Missouri ASCD is hosting a State Board Dinner and Legislative Luncheon on February 21 and 22. ·         South Carolina ASCD hosted its third annual Student Conference on February 4. One hundred college students heard South Carolina Teacher of the Year Patty Tate speak, attended sessions, and interviewed for teaching positions with school districts from across the state. ·         New Jersey ASCD hosted a successful annual conference on January 18; 225 attendees participated in a day with Rick and Becky DuFour. ·         Ohio ASCD will host Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum, on May 16-18. ·         Washington State ASCD is hosting a Whole Child Conference on May 4 and 5.   Other News ·         New York ASCD Executive Director Anthony Mello announces his retirement, effective June 30.  In addition to serving in this role for the past 18 years, he also served on ASCD’s Board of Directors for several terms and chaired numerous committees.  “We will be forever indebted to Tony for his dedication and leadership to New York State ASCD,” said New York ASCD President John Bell. ·         ASCD Welcomes Kean University Student Chapter. Please join ASCD in welcoming Kean University to the ASCD Student Chapter program! Kean University established the student chapter to give students networking opportunities, access to current trends and resources in education, and the opportunity to develop their teaching portfolios. Kean University joins 70 other student chapters in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, visit www.ascd.org/chapters. ·         2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Luis Torres will speak about how he has worked to make P.S. 55, his school in the Bronx, N.Y. a truly community-based school, at the LinkEducation Expo on March 10 in New York City. Read his interview on the LinkEducation blog. ·         2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Christina Yuknis dutifully sent her thank-you notes to the representatives she visited during the ASCD Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) last month, and one of them responded seeking advice! Representative’s staff member asked Christina if she and ASCD staff would review some legislation regarding educational leadership. Great work, Christina! ·         2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro knows it only takes one person to make a difference…and she made a video to share her message. Check out her inspiring piece on ASCD EDge. ·         2009 OYEA Honoree Carrie Buck’s school, C.T. Sewell Elementary School in Nevada, was recently recognized for their math achievement and unique instruction methods. The school was featured on CBS, ABC, Fox, and Telemundo.   ASCD Educators Connect the Classroom to the Capitol Social media isn’t just a shift in communications―it’s a revolution that facilitates change from the ground up, explained Joe Trippi, former Howard Dean campaign manager, at ASCD’s recent 2012 Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), in Washington, D.C. Trippi encouraged educators to become part of the revolution and use social media to build their “army of Davids” and start “handing out slingshots.” At LILA, participants from across the country also got a first look at ASCD’s 2012 Legislative Agenda (PDF), which outlines the association’s 10 policy recommendations for Congress; heard presentations from national experts on a wide variety of crucial topics including the Common Core State Standards, Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization, and No Child Left Behind waivers; and participated in advocacy skill building sessions that prepared them for Capitol Hill meetings with federal lawmakers. Access follow-up resources from the conference.   Throughout February on www.wholechildeducation.org: Engaging Learning Strategies Learning is active, engaging, and social. Students need to be engaged and motivated in their learning before they can apply higher-order, creative-thinking skills. They are most engaged when they themselves are part of constructing meaning, instead of when teachers do it for them. By encouraging students to meet challenges creatively, collaborate, and apply critical thinking skills to real-world, unpredictable situations inside and outside of school, we prepare them for future college, career, and citizenship success.   Join us throughout February as we examine effective classroom instruction that embraces both high standards and accountability for students’ learning. Instruction can be project-based, focused on service and the community, experiential, cooperative, expeditionary—the list goes on. These engaging learning strategies are grounded in instructional objectives, provide clear feedback, and enable students to thrive cognitively, socially, emotionally, and civically.   Download the Whole Child Podcast to hear from researcher Shelley Billig, who has conducted national, state, and regional studies on service-learning; teacher, blogger, and ASCD Emerging Leader Jason Flom; and Dorvionne Lindsay, a student from the 2011 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Quest Early College High School. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on engaging learning strategies.   Something to Talk About ·         Top Inservice Posts of 2011 ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         New Exhibitors and Exciting Sessions Among the Highlights of Upcoming ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, “A Collective Call to Action,” now features more than 80 new exhibitors, a new and expanded ASCD Center, and a new generation of speakers and sessions addressing timely topics of interest to educators of every level. ASCD's 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show is being held in Philadelphia, Pa., March 24–26. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Author Vivien Stewart Paves the Way to a World-Class Education for All—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation by international education expert Vivien Stewart. Designed to spark meaningful dialogue, this book pays particular attention to current international best practices for developing and maintaining a high-quality teaching profession and to the implications of global trends for creating modern curriculum, instruction, and assessment systems for the 21st century. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Authors Publish Practical Guide for High-Poverty Schools Ready to Do Business Differently—Now off press, Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools by ASCD authors William Parrett and Kathleen Budge supports education leaders in changing school processes to help students living in poverty succeed. Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools is a guide that principals, teacher leaders, and district leaders can use to help close the achievement gap between students living in poverty and their more privileged peers. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Releases 2012 Legislative Agenda and Calls for Whole Child–Based Education Reforms—ASCD released its 2012 Legislative Agenda (PDF) outlining the association’s public policy priorities for the year. “At no other time has a high-quality education been more crucial to the nation and its children,” said David Griffith, ASCD director of public policy. “A quality education is the pathway to a successful future for students and society at large. We believe ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda provides a framework for improving education in America.” Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         Educators Nationwide Urged to Sign Petition Calling for President’s Council on the Whole Child—ASCD urges educators nationwide to sign a petition asking President Obama to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. The petition was launched through the White House’s We the People petition tool. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·     ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2012 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the it’s 2012 Virtual Conference. The 2012 Virtual Conference will run concurrently with ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 24–26 in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:50:20 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_ASCD-Leader-to-Leader-News-February-2012/blog/5784209/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-02-17T01:50:20Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members, provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative, and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. If you have a question about the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org. Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders Ask for a Whole Child Council Today. Only two days remain to tell Washington leaders to focus on what really matters―our children’s long-term futures―by creating a President’s Council on the Whole Child. You know the whole child approach to education works; now tell the president how he can help, and ask your colleagues to do the same. Thank you for your support and persistence. (Please note: For best results, use Internet Explorer to view the site.)Join these ASCD leaders and take action:Tony Frontier asks you to sign the petition today.Jason Flom knows that students are more than just test scores.Marnie Hazelton knows a whole child approach to education works. Have you seen a whole child approach to education in action? Whole Child Programs continues to seek your submissions of schools, districts, and communities that have been awarded or recognized by constituent group leaders, for inclusion on the whole child approach examples map.  Please review the criteria, complete the submission form, and send your suggestions to wholechild@ascd.org. We would like this to be an ongoing process, so as you continue to recognize schools, districts, and communities that are doing great work in whole child education, please consider sharing with us.  Register for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD Annual Conference takes place March 24-26, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pa. Discounts apply for purchasing a Pre-Conference Institute registration or sending a team. Details about meetings and events for ASCD leaders are listed below. Learn more and register for ASCD Annual Conference at ASCD.org. Upcoming vote on  proposed changes to ASCD’s constitution. ASCD members will be asked to vote on a set of proposed changes to ASCD’s Constitution in early May 2012. Additional information about the changes and how to access the online ballot will be available in March.  Emerging Leaders program applications are now available. ASCD is seeking passionate, driven educators with 5-15 years of experience who wish to demonstrate their passion for learning, teaching, and leading through ASCD’s 2-year leadership program. Learn more and access the online Emerging Leaders program application at www.ascd.org/emergingleaders. Online applications for the class of 2012 are open until April 1. E-mail constituentservices@ascd.org to nominate a colleague; please include the nominee’s name and e-mail address in your nomination.       Leaders in Action: News from the ASCD Community 2011 Emerging Leader Featured in Christian Science Monitor Jennifer Pellegrine, a 2011 Emerging Leader, was featured with several other educators in the Christian Science Monitor series “Thirty Ideas from People Under 30.” According to the article, “Jennifer Pellegrine’s turning point came when she discovered the importance of giving students multiple chances to master skills.” Read the full article.   Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Program Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary Ten years ago, ASCD granted its first $10,000 award to an outstanding young educator. To celebrate this milestone, ASCD is featuring past winners on the ASCD Inservice blog in the weeks leading up to Annual Conference, when this year’s 2012 winners will be announced. Read 2005 OYEA winner Pete Hall’s post on the importance of listening to students.   Bahamas ASCD Connected Community Hosts Inaugural Conference The Bahamas ASCD Connected Community hosted its inaugural conference, “Instruction That Produces Desired Results for the 21st Century Learner” on October 15th, 2011. Elma Garraway, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education; Lionel Sands, Director of Education at the Ministry of Education, and Walter McKenzie, Director of Constituent Services for ASCD, each spoke to conference attendees about the significance of the work Bahamas ASCD is doing on behalf of educators. Approximately 100 education professionals and education majors at the College of the Bahamas participated in the workshop sessions. This was a significant turnout on a Saturday after a national holiday! Session presenters were local educators who excel in their areas of expertise, and they focused on how educators can help students achieve the best possible results on the Bahamas national examinations, inEnglish language, mathematics and technology, from elementary school to grade 12. The overall response to the first conference was very encouraging, and the event was well-covered by local print and broadcast media. As a result of the conference, Bahamas ASCD Connected Community received more than 50 applications for membership, as well as a significant number of college students joining as they see the benefits of being a part of a vibrant organization that can assist them in becoming first-class educators. For more information about the Bahamas ASCD Connected Community, contact Verneth Patterson.   Whole Child Resolution Introduced in Illinois Senate With the encouragement and help of Illinois ASCD and supported by the ASCD policy team, legislation to designate the month of March as Whole Child month was introduced in the Illinois Senate by state Senator Terry Link on January 31, 2012. Designated as SR0545, the resolution makes whole child education a state priority, recognizing that students need to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged to compete in today’s challenging global climate. The resolution also encourages parents, educators, and communities to support a whole child approach to education. A similar resolution will soon be introduced in the Illinois House of Representatives. Events ·         Missouri ASCD is hosting a State Board Dinner and Legislative Luncheon on February 21 and 22. ·         South Carolina ASCD hosted its third annual Student Conference on February 4. One hundred college students heard South Carolina Teacher of the Year Patty Tate speak, attended sessions, and interviewed for teaching positions with school districts from across the state. ·         New Jersey ASCD hosted a successful annual conference on January 18; 225 attendees participated in a day with Rick and Becky DuFour. ·         Ohio ASCD will host Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into Your Local School Curriculum, on May 16-18. ·         Washington State ASCD is hosting a Whole Child Conference on May 4 and 5.   Other News ·         New York ASCD Executive Director Anthony Mello announces his retirement, effective June 30.  In addition to serving in this role for the past 18 years, he also served on ASCD’s Board of Directors for several terms and chaired numerous committees.  “We will be forever indebted to Tony for his dedication and leadership to New York State ASCD,” said New York ASCD President John Bell. ·         ASCD Welcomes Kean University Student Chapter. Please join ASCD in welcoming Kean University to the ASCD Student Chapter program! Kean University established the student chapter to give students networking opportunities, access to current trends and resources in education, and the opportunity to develop their teaching portfolios. Kean University joins 70 other student chapters in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. To learn more about ASCD Student Chapters, visit www.ascd.org/chapters. ·         2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Luis Torres will speak about how he has worked to make P.S. 55, his school in the Bronx, N.Y. a truly community-based school, at the LinkEducation Expo on March 10 in New York City. Read his interview on the LinkEducation blog. ·         2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Christina Yuknis dutifully sent her thank-you notes to the representatives she visited during the ASCD Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA) last month, and one of them responded seeking advice! Representative’s staff member asked Christina if she and ASCD staff would review some legislation regarding educational leadership. Great work, Christina! ·         2011 ASCD Emerging Leader Hannah Gbenro knows it only takes one person to make a difference…and she made a video to share her message. Check out her inspiring piece on ASCD EDge. ·         2009 OYEA Honoree Carrie Buck’s school, C.T. Sewell Elementary School in Nevada, was recently recognized for their math achievement and unique instruction methods. The school was featured on CBS, ABC, Fox, and Telemundo.   ASCD Educators Connect the Classroom to the Capitol Social media isn’t just a shift in communications―it’s a revolution that facilitates change from the ground up, explained Joe Trippi, former Howard Dean campaign manager, at ASCD’s recent 2012 Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy (LILA), in Washington, D.C. Trippi encouraged educators to become part of the revolution and use social media to build their “army of Davids” and start “handing out slingshots.” At LILA, participants from across the country also got a first look at ASCD’s 2012 Legislative Agenda (PDF), which outlines the association’s 10 policy recommendations for Congress; heard presentations from national experts on a wide variety of crucial topics including the Common Core State Standards, Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization, and No Child Left Behind waivers; and participated in advocacy skill building sessions that prepared them for Capitol Hill meetings with federal lawmakers. Access follow-up resources from the conference.   Throughout February on www.wholechildeducation.org: Engaging Learning Strategies Learning is active, engaging, and social. Students need to be engaged and motivated in their learning before they can apply higher-order, creative-thinking skills. They are most engaged when they themselves are part of constructing meaning, instead of when teachers do it for them. By encouraging students to meet challenges creatively, collaborate, and apply critical thinking skills to real-world, unpredictable situations inside and outside of school, we prepare them for future college, career, and citizenship success.   Join us throughout February as we examine effective classroom instruction that embraces both high standards and accountability for students’ learning. Instruction can be project-based, focused on service and the community, experiential, cooperative, expeditionary—the list goes on. These engaging learning strategies are grounded in instructional objectives, provide clear feedback, and enable students to thrive cognitively, socially, emotionally, and civically.   Download the Whole Child Podcast to hear from researcher Shelley Billig, who has conducted national, state, and regional studies on service-learning; teacher, blogger, and ASCD Emerging Leader Jason Flom; and Dorvionne Lindsay, a student from the 2011 Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award-winning Quest Early College High School. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on engaging learning strategies.   Something to Talk About ·         Top Inservice Posts of 2011 ·         Most recent blog posts on ASCD EDge ·         Most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News ·         New Exhibitors and Exciting Sessions Among the Highlights of Upcoming ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show—ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, “A Collective Call to Action,” now features more than 80 new exhibitors, a new and expanded ASCD Center, and a new generation of speakers and sessions addressing timely topics of interest to educators of every level. ASCD's 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show is being held in Philadelphia, Pa., March 24–26. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Author Vivien Stewart Paves the Way to a World-Class Education for All—ASCD is pleased to announce the release of A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation by international education expert Vivien Stewart. Designed to spark meaningful dialogue, this book pays particular attention to current international best practices for developing and maintaining a high-quality teaching profession and to the implications of global trends for creating modern curriculum, instruction, and assessment systems for the 21st century. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Authors Publish Practical Guide for High-Poverty Schools Ready to Do Business Differently—Now off press, Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools by ASCD authors William Parrett and Kathleen Budge supports education leaders in changing school processes to help students living in poverty succeed. Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools is a guide that principals, teacher leaders, and district leaders can use to help close the achievement gap between students living in poverty and their more privileged peers. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         ASCD Releases 2012 Legislative Agenda and Calls for Whole Child–Based Education Reforms—ASCD released its 2012 Legislative Agenda (PDF) outlining the association’s public policy priorities for the year. “At no other time has a high-quality education been more crucial to the nation and its children,” said David Griffith, ASCD director of public policy. “A quality education is the pathway to a successful future for students and society at large. We believe ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda provides a framework for improving education in America.” Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·         Educators Nationwide Urged to Sign Petition Calling for President’s Council on the Whole Child—ASCD urges educators nationwide to sign a petition asking President Obama to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. The petition was launched through the White House’s We the People petition tool. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ·     ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2012 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the it’s 2012 Virtual Conference. 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To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter Add #ASCDL2L to your tweets and follow the feed to share news and resources with your fellow ASCD leaders.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders How are we doing? Tell us what you think about the L2L newsletter. This short evaluation will only take you a couple of minutes to complete. Please let us know what you think; your feedback is extremely valuable!  Sign the Whole Child Petition. Your signature on the petition sends a message to Washington leaders to focus on what really matters―our children―by asking them to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. Sign the petition and spread the word – we have until February 18 to get 25,000 signatures!  Have you seen a whole child approach to education in action? Whole Child Programs continues to seek your submissions for schools, districts, and communities that have been awarded or recognized by constituent group leaders, so that they may be included on the whole child approach examples map.  Please review the criteria and complete the submission form to send your suggestions to wholechild@ascd.org. We would like this to be an ongoing process, so as you continue to recognize schools, districts, and communities that are doing great work in whole child education, please consider sharing with us.  Register for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD Annual Conference takes place March 24-26, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pa. Discounts apply for purchasing a pre-conference institute registration or sending a team. Details about meetings and events for ASCD leaders are listed below. Learn more and register for ASCD Annual Conference at ASCD.org. Interested in running for elected office? Go to www.ascd.org/nominations to access the application form and information about the open positions in 2012. Applications are due January 31, 2012.  Call for Nominations Committee Members: Current ASCD Leadership Council members are invited to submit their names for possible service on the 2012-13 Nominations Committee. Please contact governance director Becky DeRiggefor a copy of the application form, which includes qualifications for service. Leadership Council members may also submit the names of other qualified individuals.             ASCD Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson Guest Posts on EdWeek Blog This month ASCD author and EdWeek blogger Rick Hess is taking a break from his Straight Up blog and giving a few new voices the chance to be heard in the education sphere. Patricia Dickenson, a 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader, won an ASCD competition for one of the guest slots, and she is posting this week. ·         Read Rick’s introduction. ·         Patricia’s first post: Justice for English Language Learners ·         Patricia’s second post: Reform for English Language Learners Please feel free to share and comment, and keep an eye out for Patricia’s third post at the end of this week!   Jamaica ASCD Connected Community Partners with Local School The Jamaica ASCD Connected Community is partnering with John Rollins Success Primary School to host their third annual Math Olympics on April 5, 2012. Twenty five schools will engage in this event, themed “Moulding Minds into a Fountain of Numeracy.” The Math Olympics is designed to engage students and hone their math skills through a series of projects aligned to meet learning goals. Good luck to Jamaica Connected Community in executing this unique event!   Events Illinois ASCD presents Common Core Standards Made EASY! (PDF),The Key to Infusing Technology in the Classroom (PDF), and Implementing the Common Core with Common Sense Strategies (PDF) Missouri ASCD is currently planning two conferences (spring and summer) on the Common Core State Standards.  Tennessee ASCD presents their summer institute   Other News Check out Illinois ASCD’s newly revised website: www.illinoisascd.org Read 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Brad Kuntz’s latest Education Update column on project-based learning. What will you do with the new year as an educator? Brian Nichols, 2010 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner, shares his thoughts in two blog posts on ASCD EDge: “A Second New Year”and “Making the Most of Mistakes.”  As a classroom teacher, what do you do when your classroom is bare and the school supplies you received are long gone? Christie McWilliams, a 2011 Emerging Leader, shared her tips in an Educational Horizons article titled, “Spend Less and Get More: How to Stock Up on Your Classroom Without Breaking the Bank.” Congratulations to Christie!  2011 Emerging Leader Darwin Spiller was recently featured on the cover of Texas School Business. Congratulations, Darwin!  Check out 2010 Emerging Leader Jason Flom’sreview of the ASCD Member Book Insights into Action on his Ecology of Education blog.  OYEA Winner and ASCD Board of Directors member Marc Cohen is currently blogging from the board’s trip to Thailand. Check out his posts, “A Few Reflections” and “School Visits and a Trip to the Ministry.”     Healthy School Communities Updates Canadian Edition of the Healthy School Report Card ASCD has released a second Canadian edition of its Healthy School Report Card action tool. Developed by ASCD's Healthy School Communities, the publication was coauthored by prominent experts in the fields of health and education: David K. Lohrmann, Sandra Vamos, and Paul Yeung.  The newly updated Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool, Canadian Edition, and accompanying online scoring and analysis tool, offers a practical strategy for structuring your school environment to support the development of students who have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to make healthy choices. Updated to reflect current research, new standards, and best practices in Canada, the second edition of the action tool guides you through the four steps of the process with rationale, tips from successful participants, and easy-to-use tools. Read the full press release on ASCD.org.   Throughout December and January onwww.wholechildeducation.org: Assessment We focus extensively on test scores and far too little on the whole child. We often choose one-size-fits-all fixes while ignoring solid research about the infinite ways students learn and children develop. The true measure of students’ proficiency and college-, career-, and citizenship-readiness must be based on more than just their scores on state standardized reading and math assessments. We shouldn’t simply teach to the test. We need to teach for understanding, and assessments are tools to gauge that understanding. When used effectively, assessments can facilitate high levels of student achievement by providing ongoing information about students’ grasp of key concepts and how to enhance their learning to help them meet or exceed academic requirements. States, districts, and schools should provide a more comprehensive picture of student achievement through multiple assessments of and for learning. Join us throughout December and January as we take a look at how assessments can serve a whole child approach to education and inform—not drive—school improvement efforts. Download the first in a series of Whole Child Podcast episodes on assessment, “Assessment 101,” to hear from Nancy Frey, professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and co-author of several ASCD books; Tom Whitby, adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s College and founder of #Edchat; and Peter DeWitt, principal of Poestenkill Elementary in New York, consultant for the International Center for Leadership in Education, and author of the Finding Common Ground blog for Education Week. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read engaging posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on multiple sources and measures of assessment.  Something to Talk About Ravitch: Whose Children Get Left Behind?via ASCD Inservice Changing the Poisonous Narrative via ASCD Inservice The Power of Student Feedback via ASCD Inservice Check out the most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Educators Nationwide Urged to Sign Petition Calling for President’s Council on the Whole Child—ASCD urges educators nationwide to sign a petition today asking President Obama to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. The petition was launched today through the White House’s We the People petition tool. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2012 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the association’s 2012 Virtual Conference. The 2012 Virtual Conference will run concurrent with ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 24–26 in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD and Pearson Partner with Renowned Education Researcher to Create Leadership Development Program for School Principals—ASCD and the education services and technology company Pearson announced a partnership to develop a comprehensive online leadership program for school principals and leadership teams. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. New PD Online® Courses from ASCD Support Educators Implementing Common Core State Standards—ASCD announces the release of seven new PD Online® courses for educators integrating Common Core State Standards into classroom instruction. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Classroom Instruction That Works Returns in Second Edition with New Research, Insight, and Framework—ASCD is honored to announce the debut of Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Edition, by McREL’s Ceri B. Dean, Elizabeth Ross Hubbell, Howard Pitler, and Bj Stone. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. New ASCD Book Offers Educators Practical Leadership Strategies and Inspiration—ASCD is pleased to announce the publication of its latest book, Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works, by award-winning educator William Sterrett. No one is more intimately acquainted with the daily challenges that a school leader faces than a fellow educator who has “been there, done that.” In this important new book, Sterrett shares strategies pulled from his experiences as a principal and teacher leader, as well as practical, effective strategies for leadership success from remarkable education leaders and innovators such as Carol Ann Tomlinson, Richard DuFour, Baruti Kafele, and James Popham. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Largest School District in Delaware Partners with ASCD to Build Capacity —Christina School District, the largest school district in the state of Delaware, has chosen ASCD as its new professional development partner. With approximately 16,800 students and more than 2,500 staff, Christina School District serves the city of Newark and its surrounding suburban areas, as well as a portion of the city of Wilmington. Read the full press release on ASCD.org.   ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members; provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative; and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter Add #ASCDL2L to your tweets and follow the feed to share news and resources with your fellow ASCD leaders.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders How are we doing? Tell us what you think about the L2L newsletter. This short evaluation will only take you a couple of minutes to complete. Please let us know what you think; your feedback is extremely valuable!  Sign the Whole Child Petition. Your signature on the petition sends a message to Washington leaders to focus on what really matters―our children―by asking them to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. Sign the petition and spread the word – we have until February 18 to get 25,000 signatures!  Have you seen a whole child approach to education in action? Whole Child Programs continues to seek your submissions for schools, districts, and communities that have been awarded or recognized by constituent group leaders, so that they may be included on the whole child approach examples map.  Please review the criteria and complete the submission form to send your suggestions to wholechild@ascd.org. We would like this to be an ongoing process, so as you continue to recognize schools, districts, and communities that are doing great work in whole child education, please consider sharing with us.  Register for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD Annual Conference takes place March 24-26, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pa. Discounts apply for purchasing a pre-conference institute registration or sending a team. Details about meetings and events for ASCD leaders are listed below. Learn more and register for ASCD Annual Conference at ASCD.org. Interested in running for elected office? Go to www.ascd.org/nominations to access the application form and information about the open positions in 2012. Applications are due January 31, 2012.  Call for Nominations Committee Members: Current ASCD Leadership Council members are invited to submit their names for possible service on the 2012-13 Nominations Committee. Please contact governance director Becky DeRiggefor a copy of the application form, which includes qualifications for service. Leadership Council members may also submit the names of other qualified individuals.             ASCD Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson Guest Posts on EdWeek Blog This month ASCD author and EdWeek blogger Rick Hess is taking a break from his Straight Up blog and giving a few new voices the chance to be heard in the education sphere. Patricia Dickenson, a 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader, won an ASCD competition for one of the guest slots, and she is posting this week. ·         Read Rick’s introduction. ·         Patricia’s first post: Justice for English Language Learners ·         Patricia’s second post: Reform for English Language Learners Please feel free to share and comment, and keep an eye out for Patricia’s third post at the end of this week!   Jamaica ASCD Connected Community Partners with Local School The Jamaica ASCD Connected Community is partnering with John Rollins Success Primary School to host their third annual Math Olympics on April 5, 2012. Twenty five schools will engage in this event, themed “Moulding Minds into a Fountain of Numeracy.” The Math Olympics is designed to engage students and hone their math skills through a series of projects aligned to meet learning goals. Good luck to Jamaica Connected Community in executing this unique event!   Events Illinois ASCD presents Common Core Standards Made EASY! (PDF),The Key to Infusing Technology in the Classroom (PDF), and Implementing the Common Core with Common Sense Strategies (PDF) Missouri ASCD is currently planning two conferences (spring and summer) on the Common Core State Standards.  Tennessee ASCD presents their summer institute   Other News Check out Illinois ASCD’s newly revised website: www.illinoisascd.org Read 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Brad Kuntz’s latest Education Update column on project-based learning. What will you do with the new year as an educator? Brian Nichols, 2010 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner, shares his thoughts in two blog posts on ASCD EDge: “A Second New Year”and “Making the Most of Mistakes.”  As a classroom teacher, what do you do when your classroom is bare and the school supplies you received are long gone? Christie McWilliams, a 2011 Emerging Leader, shared her tips in an Educational Horizons article titled, “Spend Less and Get More: How to Stock Up on Your Classroom Without Breaking the Bank.” Congratulations to Christie!  2011 Emerging Leader Darwin Spiller was recently featured on the cover of Texas School Business. Congratulations, Darwin!  Check out 2010 Emerging Leader Jason Flom’sreview of the ASCD Member Book Insights into Action on his Ecology of Education blog.  OYEA Winner and ASCD Board of Directors member Marc Cohen is currently blogging from the board’s trip to Thailand. Check out his posts, “A Few Reflections” and “School Visits and a Trip to the Ministry.”     Healthy School Communities Updates Canadian Edition of the Healthy School Report Card ASCD has released a second Canadian edition of its Healthy School Report Card action tool. Developed by ASCD's Healthy School Communities, the publication was coauthored by prominent experts in the fields of health and education: David K. Lohrmann, Sandra Vamos, and Paul Yeung.  The newly updated Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool, Canadian Edition, and accompanying online scoring and analysis tool, offers a practical strategy for structuring your school environment to support the development of students who have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to make healthy choices. Updated to reflect current research, new standards, and best practices in Canada, the second edition of the action tool guides you through the four steps of the process with rationale, tips from successful participants, and easy-to-use tools. Read the full press release on ASCD.org.   Throughout December and January onwww.wholechildeducation.org: Assessment We focus extensively on test scores and far too little on the whole child. We often choose one-size-fits-all fixes while ignoring solid research about the infinite ways students learn and children develop. The true measure of students’ proficiency and college-, career-, and citizenship-readiness must be based on more than just their scores on state standardized reading and math assessments. We shouldn’t simply teach to the test. We need to teach for understanding, and assessments are tools to gauge that understanding. When used effectively, assessments can facilitate high levels of student achievement by providing ongoing information about students’ grasp of key concepts and how to enhance their learning to help them meet or exceed academic requirements. States, districts, and schools should provide a more comprehensive picture of student achievement through multiple assessments of and for learning. Join us throughout December and January as we take a look at how assessments can serve a whole child approach to education and inform—not drive—school improvement efforts. Download the first in a series of Whole Child Podcast episodes on assessment, “Assessment 101,” to hear from Nancy Frey, professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and co-author of several ASCD books; Tom Whitby, adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s College and founder of #Edchat; and Peter DeWitt, principal of Poestenkill Elementary in New York, consultant for the International Center for Leadership in Education, and author of the Finding Common Ground blog for Education Week. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read engaging posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on multiple sources and measures of assessment.  Something to Talk About Ravitch: Whose Children Get Left Behind?via ASCD Inservice Changing the Poisonous Narrative via ASCD Inservice The Power of Student Feedback via ASCD Inservice Check out the most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Educators Nationwide Urged to Sign Petition Calling for President’s Council on the Whole Child—ASCD urges educators nationwide to sign a petition today asking President Obama to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. The petition was launched today through the White House’s We the People petition tool. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2012 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the association’s 2012 Virtual Conference. The 2012 Virtual Conference will run concurrent with ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 24–26 in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD and Pearson Partner with Renowned Education Researcher to Create Leadership Development Program for School Principals—ASCD and the education services and technology company Pearson announced a partnership to develop a comprehensive online leadership program for school principals and leadership teams. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. New PD Online® Courses from ASCD Support Educators Implementing Common Core State Standards—ASCD announces the release of seven new PD Online® courses for educators integrating Common Core State Standards into classroom instruction. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Classroom Instruction That Works Returns in Second Edition with New Research, Insight, and Framework—ASCD is honored to announce the debut of Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Edition, by McREL’s Ceri B. Dean, Elizabeth Ross Hubbell, Howard Pitler, and Bj Stone. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. New ASCD Book Offers Educators Practical Leadership Strategies and Inspiration—ASCD is pleased to announce the publication of its latest book, Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works, by award-winning educator William Sterrett. No one is more intimately acquainted with the daily challenges that a school leader faces than a fellow educator who has “been there, done that.” In this important new book, Sterrett shares strategies pulled from his experiences as a principal and teacher leader, as well as practical, effective strategies for leadership success from remarkable education leaders and innovators such as Carol Ann Tomlinson, Richard DuFour, Baruti Kafele, and James Popham. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Largest School District in Delaware Partners with ASCD to Build Capacity —Christina School District, the largest school district in the state of Delaware, has chosen ASCD as its new professional development partner. With approximately 16,800 students and more than 2,500 staff, Christina School District serves the city of Newark and its surrounding suburban areas, as well as a portion of the city of Wilmington. Read the full press release on ASCD.org.   Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:42:58 GMT http://edge.ascd.org/_L2L-News-January-2012/blog/5721002/127586.html Meg_Simpson 2012-01-20T02:42:58Z ASCD EDge ASCD Leader to Leader (L2L) News is a monthly e-mail newsletter for ASCD constituent group leaders that builds capacity to better serve members; provides opportunities to promote and advocate for ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative; and engages groups through sharing and learning about best practices. To submit a news item for the L2L newsletter, send an e-mail to constituentservices@ascd.org.   Join the L2L Conversation on Twitter Add #ASCDL2L to your tweets and follow the feed to share news and resources with your fellow ASCD leaders.   Your To-Do List: Action Items for ASCD Leaders How are we doing? Tell us what you think about the L2L newsletter. This short evaluation will only take you a couple of minutes to complete. Please let us know what you think; your feedback is extremely valuable!  Sign the Whole Child Petition. Your signature on the petition sends a message to Washington leaders to focus on what really matters―our children―by asking them to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. Sign the petition and spread the word – we have until February 18 to get 25,000 signatures!  Have you seen a whole child approach to education in action? Whole Child Programs continues to seek your submissions for schools, districts, and communities that have been awarded or recognized by constituent group leaders, so that they may be included on the whole child approach examples map.  Please review the criteria and complete the submission form to send your suggestions to wholechild@ascd.org. We would like this to be an ongoing process, so as you continue to recognize schools, districts, and communities that are doing great work in whole child education, please consider sharing with us.  Register for ASCD’s Annual Conference. ASCD Annual Conference takes place March 24-26, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pa. Discounts apply for purchasing a pre-conference institute registration or sending a team. Details about meetings and events for ASCD leaders are listed below. Learn more and register for ASCD Annual Conference at ASCD.org. Interested in running for elected office? Go to www.ascd.org/nominations to access the application form and information about the open positions in 2012. Applications are due January 31, 2012.  Call for Nominations Committee Members: Current ASCD Leadership Council members are invited to submit their names for possible service on the 2012-13 Nominations Committee. Please contact governance director Becky DeRiggefor a copy of the application form, which includes qualifications for service. Leadership Council members may also submit the names of other qualified individuals.             ASCD Emerging Leader Patricia Dickenson Guest Posts on EdWeek Blog This month ASCD author and EdWeek blogger Rick Hess is taking a break from his Straight Up blog and giving a few new voices the chance to be heard in the education sphere. Patricia Dickenson, a 2011 ASCD Emerging Leader, won an ASCD competition for one of the guest slots, and she is posting this week. ·         Read Rick’s introduction. ·         Patricia’s first post: Justice for English Language Learners ·         Patricia’s second post: Reform for English Language Learners Please feel free to share and comment, and keep an eye out for Patricia’s third post at the end of this week!   Jamaica ASCD Connected Community Partners with Local School The Jamaica ASCD Connected Community is partnering with John Rollins Success Primary School to host their third annual Math Olympics on April 5, 2012. Twenty five schools will engage in this event, themed “Moulding Minds into a Fountain of Numeracy.” The Math Olympics is designed to engage students and hone their math skills through a series of projects aligned to meet learning goals. Good luck to Jamaica Connected Community in executing this unique event!   Events Illinois ASCD presents Common Core Standards Made EASY! (PDF),The Key to Infusing Technology in the Classroom (PDF), and Implementing the Common Core with Common Sense Strategies (PDF) Missouri ASCD is currently planning two conferences (spring and summer) on the Common Core State Standards.  Tennessee ASCD presents their summer institute   Other News Check out Illinois ASCD’s newly revised website: www.illinoisascd.org Read 2011 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner Brad Kuntz’s latest Education Update column on project-based learning. What will you do with the new year as an educator? Brian Nichols, 2010 Outstanding Young Educator Award Winner, shares his thoughts in two blog posts on ASCD EDge: “A Second New Year”and “Making the Most of Mistakes.”  As a classroom teacher, what do you do when your classroom is bare and the school supplies you received are long gone? Christie McWilliams, a 2011 Emerging Leader, shared her tips in an Educational Horizons article titled, “Spend Less and Get More: How to Stock Up on Your Classroom Without Breaking the Bank.” Congratulations to Christie!  2011 Emerging Leader Darwin Spiller was recently featured on the cover of Texas School Business. Congratulations, Darwin!  Check out 2010 Emerging Leader Jason Flom’sreview of the ASCD Member Book Insights into Action on his Ecology of Education blog.  OYEA Winner and ASCD Board of Directors member Marc Cohen is currently blogging from the board’s trip to Thailand. Check out his posts, “A Few Reflections” and “School Visits and a Trip to the Ministry.”     Healthy School Communities Updates Canadian Edition of the Healthy School Report Card ASCD has released a second Canadian edition of its Healthy School Report Card action tool. Developed by ASCD's Healthy School Communities, the publication was coauthored by prominent experts in the fields of health and education: David K. Lohrmann, Sandra Vamos, and Paul Yeung.  The newly updated Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool, Canadian Edition, and accompanying online scoring and analysis tool, offers a practical strategy for structuring your school environment to support the development of students who have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to make healthy choices. Updated to reflect current research, new standards, and best practices in Canada, the second edition of the action tool guides you through the four steps of the process with rationale, tips from successful participants, and easy-to-use tools. Read the full press release on ASCD.org.   Throughout December and January onwww.wholechildeducation.org: Assessment We focus extensively on test scores and far too little on the whole child. We often choose one-size-fits-all fixes while ignoring solid research about the infinite ways students learn and children develop. The true measure of students’ proficiency and college-, career-, and citizenship-readiness must be based on more than just their scores on state standardized reading and math assessments. We shouldn’t simply teach to the test. We need to teach for understanding, and assessments are tools to gauge that understanding. When used effectively, assessments can facilitate high levels of student achievement by providing ongoing information about students’ grasp of key concepts and how to enhance their learning to help them meet or exceed academic requirements. States, districts, and schools should provide a more comprehensive picture of student achievement through multiple assessments of and for learning. Join us throughout December and January as we take a look at how assessments can serve a whole child approach to education and inform—not drive—school improvement efforts. Download the first in a series of Whole Child Podcast episodes on assessment, “Assessment 101,” to hear from Nancy Frey, professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and co-author of several ASCD books; Tom Whitby, adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s College and founder of #Edchat; and Peter DeWitt, principal of Poestenkill Elementary in New York, consultant for the International Center for Leadership in Education, and author of the Finding Common Ground blog for Education Week. As always, visit the Whole Child Blog to read engaging posts from diverse writers, leave your comments, and get free resources on multiple sources and measures of assessment.  Something to Talk About Ravitch: Whose Children Get Left Behind?via ASCD Inservice Changing the Poisonous Narrative via ASCD Inservice The Power of Student Feedback via ASCD Inservice Check out the most-clicked stories from ASCD SmartBrief.   Association News Educators Nationwide Urged to Sign Petition Calling for President’s Council on the Whole Child—ASCD urges educators nationwide to sign a petition today asking President Obama to create a President’s Council on the Whole Child. The petition was launched today through the White House’s We the People petition tool. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD Announces Complete Schedule for 2012 Virtual Conference—ASCD announces the complete schedule for the association’s 2012 Virtual Conference. The 2012 Virtual Conference will run concurrent with ASCD’s 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show March 24–26 in Philadelphia, Pa. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. ASCD and Pearson Partner with Renowned Education Researcher to Create Leadership Development Program for School Principals—ASCD and the education services and technology company Pearson announced a partnership to develop a comprehensive online leadership program for school principals and leadership teams. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. New PD Online® Courses from ASCD Support Educators Implementing Common Core State Standards—ASCD announces the release of seven new PD Online® courses for educators integrating Common Core State Standards into classroom instruction. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Classroom Instruction That Works Returns in Second Edition with New Research, Insight, and Framework—ASCD is honored to announce the debut of Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Edition, by McREL’s Ceri B. Dean, Elizabeth Ross Hubbell, Howard Pitler, and Bj Stone. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. New ASCD Book Offers Educators Practical Leadership Strategies and Inspiration—ASCD is pleased to announce the publication of its latest book, Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works, by award-winning educator William Sterrett. No one is more intimately acquainted with the daily challenges that a school leader faces than a fellow educator who has “been there, done that.” In this important new book, Sterrett shares strategies pulled from his experiences as a principal and teacher leader, as well as practical, effective strategies for leadership success from remarkable education leaders and innovators such as Carol Ann Tomlinson, Richard DuFour, Baruti Kafele, and James Popham. Read the full press release on ASCD.org. Largest School District in Delaware Partners with ASCD to Build Capacity —Christina School District, the largest school district in the state of Delaware, has chosen ASCD as its new professional development partner. 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