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Apply for the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship program!

hi all, Here’s information about the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship that I completed last year through the U.S. Department of Education. The application process has just opened! Please consider applying, and passing along the word to others in your school or friends who might be interested! I hope all is well–how are things in your schools [...]

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Brief History–Federal Role in Education Reform

My program director for my teaching fellowship at the U.S. Department of Education sent this to us recently. It’s a brief video that gives some a bit of background to the current Race to the Top competition. http://jamesliou.com/liouwp/2009/12/04/a-brief-history-federal-role-in-education/

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A Long Delayed Check in

hi all, I’ve been meaning to write and get in touch with you all to check in for TOO long now– it’s a little unreal how quickly the fall has come and gone. When did it start getting dark by half past four?? How are you all doing?

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Prompt #3: Moving Towards Strategy Mapping and Power Analysis

hi everyone, sorry for the slight delay in putting up this post and the promised materials from our conference call this past Tuesday.  Busy these days… Connie and Sue– it was great to catch up with both of you!  Find the posting titled “Conference Call Notes–May 12, 2009″ for a brief report out of notes [...]

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Conference Call Notes–May 12, 2009

Conference Call Agenda: I. General check ins / Website check in. II. Community Partnerships– Regional policy landscape III. Challenges and Opportunities IV. Naming policy focus areas and targets– Tools to share. V. Next steps —- Some brief notes: –Catch up. We spent about 15 minutes or so catching up with each other and what’s been [...]

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Prompt #2: Sketching out the Landscape

In preparation for our upcoming conference call, please take a moment to respond to the following prompts in a post. Also, comment on each others’ postings as they appear.  For those of you who need deadlines (like me! , please try and create a post by Monday May 4th, and respond to each others’ posts [...]

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Community Partnerships in the Boston area

How would you describe what effective ‘community partnerships’ for your school or the particular context of your district look like? How might they be a dynamic and positive force to better educate our students? How would you argue that a strategic policy focus on community partnerships makes sense right now? By the nature of being [...]

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Prompt #1. Why Community Partnerships?

Please respond to the following prompts by creating your own post by Friday April 17th. Leave comments on others’ posts by Sunday April 19th. How would you describe what effective ‘community partnerships’ for your school or the particular context of your district look like? How might they be a dynamic and positive force to better [...]

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Hello NERTLI members!

Dear fellow NERTLI collaborators, it is my hope that this website will serve as a useful medium for us to continue our work of collaboration and advocacy on pushing forward our ideas regarding full service community schools and similar models of community-rooted schools. Take a look around and get familiar with the different sections of [...]

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