Lin Kuzmich, Senior Consultant
International Center for Leadership

November 2010

Duration 2:14

Lin Kuzmich, Senior Consultant
Successful Practices Network and ICLE

May 2012

Duration: 5:11 Minutes

Lin Kuzmich, Senior Consultant
Successful Practices Network and ICLE

April 2012

Duration: 6:51 Minutes

Folder: Effective and Efficient

This research report written by Bill Daggett, SPN's Doug Silver, Dr. Jimmy Byrd, and Dr. Cindy WIlliams provides a model of how effective and efficient are not mutually exclusive. This paper describes the rationale and context for work in support of the El Paso ISD's effort to become more effective and efficient through a real time data analysis. The focus of this work is on efficient prevention rather than expensive intervention in assisting schools’ existing efforts and identifying poten...Read more

Deming High School implemented interdisciplinary Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with their teachers beginning in January 2011. This Share-a-thon event was an extension of the high school’s PLCs. The PLCs were designed to increase teacher collaboration for student learning. The groups, made up of at least one teacher from the core subjects and non-core subjects, met every other week and the Share-a-thon was the culminating project for each of the eight PLCs. Each PLC was responsib...Read more

Think: WRITE: Create: Across the Curriculum
Presenter: Venola Mason, Consultant, International Center for Leadership in Education

Presented by Sherry St. Clair, Senior Consultant, International Center for Leadership in Education
This is part #11 our continuing webinar series "Connecting Classroom Practice to the Common Core."

Folder: Adult Education

Nearly a decade ago, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) presented states with a daunting mix of challenges that supported the creation of statewide standards and assessments and rigorous accountability requirements. Yet, as a nation, the United States still lags behind other countries in student academic achievement and in preparing its young people to succeed beyond the classroom. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education expects the gap between American students and students from top performing co...Read more

Careful Construction Company (CCC) has recently conducted an annual review of their performance and progress to goals. Based on this data, they have become aware that they are not completing projects on time which prevents them from staying within budget due to the additional labor costs. CCC has contracted with the Get it Right engineering firm to create a machine that will assist them with lifting some of the heavy loads required to complete projects in a timelier manner by reducing the a...Read more

How can teachers create meaningful assessments aligned with the expectations of the CCSS? How can these assessments measure content knowledge as well as higher-order thinking skills such as problem solving, evaluation, reasoning, etc.? In this webinar, we will discuss the components of high-quality assessments, both formative and summative.