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Enjoy your Summer Break!
We are excited to announce the launch of the Summer Edition of IL ASCD's Quarterly Journal!
The theme of this edition is Planning. Read it now!
Title II, Part A Funding Eliminated, Sample Letters You Can Submit
The House Appropriations Subcommittee just passed the FY18 education funding bill which includes NO funding for Title II. This is a surprise given the committee’s bipartisan criticism of the administration’s proposal to eliminate Title II funding. The full House Appropriations Committee is expected to vote on the same appropriations bill THIS week. It is imperative that some level of funding for Title II be included in that bill when it is approved to help secure the highest possible figure in the eventual negotiations with the Senate over a final funding level.
Toward that end, ASCD has drafted letters from IllinoisASCD to members of the Illinois delegation on the Education and the Workforce Committee and the Appropriations Committee highlighting the negative impact the elimination of Title II funding will have on your districts, and requesting that they contact their colleagues to provide funding for Title II in the bill when it is considered by the committee THIS week.
ASCD has included the contact information (name and email address) at the top of each of the respective letters and have left the closing blank so you can insert the appropriate name and title of who it is from (and put on your letterhead). We are asking you to send these letters to the respective congressional offices immediately since time is of the essence with the bill being voted on sometime this week. Of course, if you would like to revise the letters in any way please feel free to do so.
David Griffith · Senior Director of Government Relations
Committee decisions will be made this week. Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter.
Download Sample Letter HERE
Send us your good news! Taking a new position? Retiring? Won an award? Please let us know! Glenna Adams, EdBriefs Editor [email protected]
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Archived issues of ILASCD Education Briefs are available in our Members Only section on the ILASCD website. Please log in to your account to view them. Not a member? Join today!
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July 30- Aug 1 - Eagle Ridge Resort
AA # 1360 Learning to Lead by Applying the Five (5) Levels of Leadership
Featuring: David A. Anderson & Steve Thomas
Outcomes
- Identify culture and what exactly makes a complete culture
- How and why leaders have impact on staff engagement!
- Leadership principles and practices that affect the culture!
- What makes people so weird and tough to lead, let alone get along with!
- The one key element that all great leaders have that makes them effective!
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5 Principles of Courageous School Leadership
Equity is for all kids. On this episode of ASCD Learn Teach Lead Radio, Pedro Noguera explains how to create a school climate that prioritizes equity and provides strategies to make it a reality for all students. Listen to this podcast as the author of "Excellence Through Equity" dives into the important issues that determine whether all kids are reached, inspired and taught.
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4 Reflections for a Positive Outlook for All Learners Four reflection questions provide a positive frame for developing relationships between exceptional students, their teachers and peers. These questions ask educators to consider what students and teachers have in common, how students are grouped, what strengths learners possess, and how to reframe language to be more student-centered.
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Building On What's Most Essential in a Time of Rapid Change There exists a common understanding of what is most essential in literacy learning, and, upon that foundation, new ideas and new tools are layered. This conference and others like it demonstrate that deep and meaningful change can take place when core principles are retained. To prevent fragmented teaching and learning, change must sit on a platform of what is most essential.
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IL ASCD Whole Child Recognition Award for 2017 is now accepting applications!
To learn more and submit an application for your school please visit our website
Applications are due July 31st
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ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative in Illinois-IL ASCD Whole Child Recognition Awards
Since 2010, IL ASCD has recognized schools that are implementing the tenets of the Whole Child: healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. In order to learn more and make application for your school go to: https://illinoisascd.org/about/whole-child
Congratulations to the following schools who have been recognized for excellence in honoring the spirit of The Whole Child by the ILASCD Whole Child Committee on Oct. 27, 2016, at the Conference on Learning & EXPO in Schaumburg, IL!
Each of these schools is recognized for their excellence in fulfilling the qualities expressed in the specific Whole Child Tenets:
- Healthy: Ardmore Elementary, Villa Park, IL
- Safe: South Park Elementary, Deerfield, IL
- Engaged: Kipling Elementary, Deerfield, IL
- Supported: Woodland Primary School, Gages Lake, IL
- Challenged: Pepper Ridge Elementary, Bloomington, IL
- Overall: Pershing Elementary, Berwyn, IL
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Overrides Successful – Budget In Place
The Illinois House of Representatives approved motions to override the Governor’s vetoes on the three budget bills passed early in July. The motion to override SB 9, the bill that would increase income tax rates, passed on a vote of 71-42. The override motion on SB 42, the budget implementation bill (BIMP), passed on a vote of 71-41. The final motion, to override SB 6, the appropriations bill, was successful on a vote of 74-37. 71 votes are necessary to override a veto in the House. The bills become effective immediately.
The House adjourned until the call of the Speaker; the Senate adjourned Tuesday until the call of the President. Lawmakers will likely be back in the Capitol before summer is over to discuss the other outlying issues that have been under discussion.
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In addition to this information from ASCD, we are running a series on the Whole Child within our Illinois ASCD Journal. To read the latest edition of our Journal, visit our website
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Bill Text/Status: Illinois General Assembly www.ilga.gov. Click on Dashboard.
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Cambridge has been working with members of ASCD for nearly 25 years providing data-informed lesson plans and supplemental materials to increase ACT/ASPIRE/PSAT/WorkKeys/GED test scores while mastering skills aligned with College Readiness and common core standards.
Schools select after-school, semester-long or alongside-the-curriculum models using their own teachers or ours. Professional development, Parent Admission and Student Motivation workshops assist with systemic efforts for greater student achievement.
Contact Mary Parks at 800-444-4373 ext. 226, 847-204-0502 (C), or
[email protected] for additional information.
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Groups Analyze ESSA Accountability Plans The Collaborative for Student Success and Bellwether Education Partners worked with education experts to analyze the initial batch of Every Student Succeeds Act state accountability plans. They noted that the plans do not adequately address the needs of disadvantaged students -- including students of color, students with disabilities and English-language learners
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DeVos Praises Supreme Court Ruling A church should not be denied public funding for the resurfacing of its preschool playground, the US Supreme Court ruled June 26 in a case that could have implications for the school-voucher debate.
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ILASCD's Video Workshops are perfect for use in Department meetings, Faculty meetings, PLC teams, college classes, parent meetings, Board of Education meetings, grade-level meetings, individual PD. Not webinars, but live-capture presentations defining and exploring how testing in standards-based learning environments leads to successful growth model attainment. Each video begins with definitions of the tests in the area being covered. Detailed information about their impact on the learning in classrooms will be provided. Each video allows break times within the 30-45 minute time period for discussion by the viewing group under the leadership of the local host (principal, professor, department chair, PLC leader, etc.). Each module is $69.
More Information
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Upcoming Conferences & Workshops
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Know Your IEIN? Professional Development Requirement- IEIN Number • When registering and signing attendance for future professional development opportunities provided by school districts, ROE, professional association, or other approved ISBE Provider, you will be required to provide your IEIN which is your Illinois Educator Information Number. • Your personal IEIN can be found on the ELIS site, which is the ISBE site for licensure renewal and PD hour entry. • Please know your IEIN when registering and attending. This requirement protects YOU when ISBE decides to audit your attendance at events.
IL ASCD is an ISBE Approved Provider IL ASCD is a CPS Approved Provider #24595
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Principals: Want to spend more time in classrooms to improve teaching and learning? This two-day institute is for you! Master the strategies, tools, and habits that will get you into classrooms on a daily basis, while keeping the rest of your work under control with high performance workflows.
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EdLead17, Learning to Lead by Applying the 5 Levels of Leadership, featuring Steve Thomas and David Anderson, July 30 - Aug 1, 2017, Eagle Ridge Resort, Galena. Day 1: Culture Is as Culture Does, Steve Thomas. Day 2 and 3: Growing Your Leadership, David Anderson (AA #1360)
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Learn innovative yet simple-to-implement strategies for motivating, managing and engaging all kids, especially your toughest!
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NEW! -
What At-Risk Readers Need: Planning and Implementing RtI Programs with Richard Allington
Sept. 11 in Schaumburg Dr. Richard Allington, author and leading expert on RtI, cuts through the research jargon and provides plain-language advice to guide classroom teachers in planning and implementing RtI programs. His main goal is that all children become active and engaged readers and that all develop the proficiencies needed to be strong independent readers.
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Flipped Learning – Hype or the Future? with Jon Bergmann
Sept. 25 in Oak Lawn Though many believe Flipped Learning is a fad, it is, in fact, a meta-strategy which is transforming classrooms by connecting teachers to students, students to students, and students to curriculum. A significant portion of the session will be devoted for participants to get comfortable using the technology tools of flipped learning.
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Sessions: Inspiration for Morning Meetings, Managing Your Classroom with Excellence, Teaching with YouTube: 21st Century Tools Galore, Model, Motivate, Write. Repeat! with Adam Peterson with Harry Kindergarten and Adam Peterson
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The IL ASCD Visible Learning(plus) Institute is a two-day conference with John Hattie, Dave Nagel, Peter DeWitt, and Diane Wolf. Designed to operationalize Visible Learning principles, the institute will provide participants with the tools and practices to put theory into local practice.
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Curriculum Leadership Development Network, starting with Lead&Learn17, Oct 25-26, then 5 more days of learning: Nov - April, in Oak Lawn
CLDN is a program designed to provide in-depth learning and networking opportunities that develop curriculum leadership
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Learn, first-hand, several SEL, movement and mindfulness activities to implement with students.
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One of the best-known leadership authors in education, Michael Fullan will focus on what school and district leaders need in order to have deep impact on teacher and student learning as they link to state policy.
Register NOW:
Early Bird rate $195 through Aug. 30
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Come join over 120 National and Local Presenters such as Kim Adsit, Deanna Jump, Shari Sloane, Deedee Wills, Kathy Griffin, Kurt Schwengel, Kim Jordano, Shawn Brown and many more…
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Other Conferences of Note
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2017 Summer UbD Workshops, with Jay McTighe, Two-Day or One-Day Workshops, Starting July 19, Columbia, MD Two-Day UbD Curriculum Design Workshop, July 19-20 OR Aug 7-8 How can you design curriculum and learning experiences that make it more likely that students will understand the “big ideas” of content and be able to apply them in meaningful ways? Since 1998, thousands of educators globally, have used the
Understanding by Design (UbD) Framework® to answer that question and create more rigorous and engaging curricula. Workshop participants will apply a set of practical and proven UbD 2.0 tools and templates to create or refine a unit of study, with an emphasis on Stages 1 and 2 of “backward design.” Register here:
https://jaymctighe.com/ubd-summer-workshops-2017/
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One-Day Workshop on Teaching for Understanding, July 21 OR Aug 9* Join Jay McTighe, co-author of the Understanding by Design Framework®, in a workshop on teaching for understanding and deep learning. How does teaching for deep understanding differ from “coverage-oriented” instruction? What instructional techniques are most effective for developing and deepening student understanding of important ideas and processes? How can we teach so that students can transfer their learning? How might we differentiate instruction and assessment without lowering standards? What observable indicators are evident in classrooms in which teaching for understanding and the authentic application of knowledge are emphasized? *You can register for this 1-day workshop on July 21 or August 9 – OR – as a continuation of the 2-day workshop, July 19-20 or August 7-8, respectively.Register here: https://jaymctighe.com/ubd-summer-workshops-2017/
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Literacy Leaders' Institute, August 6–8, Chicago, IL Join ASCD and Scholastic for an event in which education thought leaders address districtwide literacy improvement. During this three-day institute, you'll review essential strategies for high-quality literacy instruction and collaboratively discuss the keys for planning, implementation, and sustainability.
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Teach to Lead Summit, Sept 22 - 24, Austin, TX The Department of Education, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and ASCD announced that
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each to Lead will host its next Teacher Leadership Summit September 22-24 in Austin, Texas, bringing together teacher leaders and other stakeholders to collaborate, problem solve, and develop action plans to benefit students and schools. Every team must contain at least one practicing classroom teacher, and
idea submissions -- due by August 9 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time -- may address any perceived area of need within schools, districts, or states
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Making Heavy Investment In Personalized Learning Education Week reports Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, through their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, are “gearing up to invest hundreds of millions of dollars a year in a new vision of ‘whole-child personalized learning,’ with the aim of dramatically expanding the scope and scale of efforts to provide every student with a customized education.” The approach will be headed up by former Deputy Secretary of Education James H. Shelton, who said in an interview, “We’ve got to dispel this notion that personalized learning is just about technology. In fact, it is about understanding students, giving them agency, and letting them do work that is engaging and exciting.
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Debate Over Arming Teachers In Classroom Continues
International Business Times reports on the vigorous debate around the country over whether teachers should be allowed to carry handguns in class, prompted by perceptions of a spike in attacks on schools, notably the December 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The article describes the political dimensions of the debate and reports that a rising number of states are making it legal for teachers to carry guns in class.
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Transforming Schools Through Sustainability The essential core of this curriculum, which was absent in my previous "traditional" classroom, is that everything we do is connected to real-world challenges. Students learn about the sustainability challenges -- including those concerning energy, water, waste, transportation, air quality, food and public spaces -- that affect our society and use project-based learning principles to develop their own innovative solutions. We're teaching them not only to be prepared for the future that will truly exist, which is important enough, but to be the leaders and changemakers of that rapidly-arriving future society.
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ISTE: How to Combat Fake News Online
Participants at this week's International Society for Technology in Education conference said educators should do more to help students determine the difference between real news and fake news online. Jean Pfluger, a librarian at a Houston school, teaches students how to think critically about their sources of information using the American Library Association's CRAAP Test's five criteria: currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose.
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Opportunities & Grants/Awards
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Grant Program Aimed at Boosting STEM Careers The National Science Foundation is seeking to raise awareness about careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The foundation has announced it will award 18 grants to support STEM, totaling between $10 million and $20 million, and the deadline to apply is Sept. 5.
T.H.E. Journal
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ASCD Job Ramp: A Careers Site for Educators Developed through a partnership between CareerBuilder and ASCD, the free ASCD Job Ramp website was developed to simplify the job hunt for educators of all professional levels. Access the jobs site day or night, weekend or weekday, to browse U.S. openings in education. And don't forget to take advantage of custom search options and personalized alerts.
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The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Check this page weekly to get the latest updates!
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Empower Young People Through Music Classics for Kids Foundation supports school and community youth music programs in need by providing matching grants for new, high-quality stringed instruments, such as violins, violas, and
cellos. Schools and nonprofit organizations must raise at least half of the funds to purchase the
requested number of instruments, using a provider authorized by the foundation. Programs that serve K–12 students are eligible for grants. The website offers guidance for starting a stringed instrumental program, including a proposed startup budget. We accept grant applications quarterly. Grant deadlines are: June 30, September 30, December 31 and March 31. Click Here to Visit Website
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US Department of Education
Be sure to review the Department's Fiscal Year 2017
Grants Forecast (as of January 2017), which lists virtually all programs and competitions under which the agency has invited or expects to invite applications for awards and provides actual or estimated dates for the transmittal of applications under these programs.
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RAND Study Points To Modest Gains From Personalized Instruction, But Bears Caveats
Benjamin Herold writes at the Education Week “Digital Education” blog that according to a new study from the RAND Corporation, there is evidence suggesting that personalized learning “can generate modest gains in math and reading scores.” Herold calls the research “the most comprehensive ongoing study to date of personalized learning,” and says the researchers “describe their latest findings as a ‘cautionary tale’ about a trend whose popularity – and backing from philanthropists, venture capitalists, and the ed-tech industry – far outpaces its evidence base.”
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What Makes a World-Class School and How We Can Get There Armed with statistics, examples, and cautionary tales from Scandinavia to Japan, What Makes a World-Class School and How We Can Get There, delivers transformative ideas for cultivating a truly world-class system of schooling. Authors James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu, have written a book that can help educators better prepare students and close the global achievement gap. This thought-provoking and copiously researched book provides educators with a blueprint for radical improvement based on the hard-learned experiences of their peers around the world. Read chapter 1 and study guide for free.
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New Marzano Focused Model Simplifies Teacher Evaluation Marzano evaluation has been updated and streamlined. A concise set of 23 core competencies includes focus statements, desired effects, sample techniques, and strategies for evaluating student work. This model takes the pressure off teachers and makes scoring much more efficient – learn more.
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