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Listed below are tools which are available to enhance your education and administrating skills. Here are several ideas which have been or are currently being tested which are effective and could help in setting the education standard for the future. Please visit each idea. If you can come out if it with just one idea which will help you be a better educator or administrator, then all the below effort was worth it.
Promising Practices
The OMLA attempts to keep up with our state's middle schools' promising practices so that they can be shared among us all. CLICK HERE to see what’s been done and show you how to become part of this exciting program.
Mid-Level Tool Kit
The Middle Level Toolkit is dedicated to promoting excellence in middle grades education, and to providing support for those working with young adolescents in the middle grades as they work toward achieving an Oregon Diploma. CLICK HERE to find out more.
Closing the Achievement Gap
School principals are critical to establishing school environments in which all students can learn and succeed. But as student demographics change and achievement gaps between white and minority students remain wide, principals face growing challenges to serve an increasingly diverse population. While more diversity is an opportunity for school districts, school leaders must develop skills and receive support to effectively lead in this environment. What knowledge and skills do principals need to address large performance gaps between students from different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds? What skills do they need to lead schools where a majority of students are English language learners? How does culturally responsive leadership benefit a school community where cultures, races and ethnicities intersect? CLICK HERE to find out more about this new and exciting program supported by The Wallace Foundation
Links
Click here to go to our links page where you will find useful links to many programs across the US working to better our academic endeavor. Need some information? Here it is, CLICK HERE!
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