This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Jane Quinn, Assistant Executive Director for Community Schools at the Children's Aid Society, presents her research on community schools, including community school models, best practices, partnerships, and strategies. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This module was the keynote at a November, 2008 symposium on RTI held by the NEA and the RTI Action Network. Dr. David Prasse, from Loyola University in Chicago, gives an overview of RTI and discusses professional and organizational preparation for RTI. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This module was a presentation at a November, 2008 symposium on RTI held by the NEA and the RTI Action Network. Dr. Karen Wixson at the University of Michigan discusses the current level of understanding and implementation of RTI in the special and general education populations, and talks about how to move forward. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This module was a presentation at a November, 2008 symposium on RTI held by the NEA and the RTI Action Network. Thomas Comp, an elementary school principal, talks about the role of RTI in turning around an elementary school. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This module was a presentation at a November, 2008 symposium on RTI held by the NEA and the RTI Action Network. Chuck Grable of the Huntington County Community School Corporation in Huntington, Indiana, discusses RTI from the district-level perspective. One focus is educating everyone from students to school board members to non-teaching building staff about the purpose and nature of educational strategies and changes aimed at creating a better learning environment. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This module was a presentation at a November, 2008 symposium on RTI held by the NEA and the RTI Action Network. Dr. Abraham Jones talks about the relationships between general and special education and the use of RTI in both areas, and discusses teacher learning in the context of a school building. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

The National Education Association and the Including Samuel Project at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire hosted this national symposium at NEA. Over 230 policymakers and educators took part in an interactive symposium, Creating Great Public Schools for All Using UDL and Inclusive Practices, to learn more about inclusive education practices and Universal Design for Learning. Symposium participants heard from experts who presented information on best practices and highlighted the most recent developments in UDL theory and implementation. To view videos of presentations, scroll down to "Create Great Public Schools for All Using Universal Design for Learning and Inclusive ...

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball, from the University of Michigan, talks about instruction and achievement gaps, using math instruction and achievement as the primary example. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. William Tate of Washington University in St. Louis presents research on math and science learning, discussing what kinds of math and science students need to move on and what kinds of math and science a knowledge-based economy needs its high school and college graduates to have mastered from the earliest grades on. He discusses the cost to a region that fails to prepare its students for its main industries, citing biotech. He gives information on trends in black students earning degrees in science and what those trends mean in terms of what K-12 education is doing and can do. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring ...

In this NEA workshop, Dara Feldman introduces the Virtues Project and specifically the five strategies of the Virtues Project. The Virtues Project is an award-winning methodology for creating a positive work. school, and home environment. This presentation includes an overview of the methodology and videos of students and teachers' use of and reaction to the project. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Steve Barnett of Rutgers discusses his research on early childhood education, presenting positive outcomes for students and society. He talks about the flaws in targeted programs for at-risk children and gives arguments and information in support of a universal public preschool program. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Patricia Gandara and Gary Orfield, co-directors of the UCLA Civil Rights Project, present their research on education and Latino students. They discuss demographic changes that will lead to an increasingly pluralistic society and how policy and practice actually and potentially affect the successful implementation of education that trains all students to work in the pluralistic society of today and tomorrow. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Carol Lee of Northwestern University presents her research on creating robust learning environments, including an analysis on what learning in school is, means, and requires. She discusses how to help students persist in learning and develop deep understanding of the material. The presentation includes videos of Lee's classroom work. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Frederick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at American Enterprise Institute, discusses the problem model driving discussion of and interventions for achievement gaps and teacher quality. He also presents some common ideas and values being balance when working out how to scale best practices. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Henry Levin, from Teachers College at Columbia University, presents decades of research on how education affects income, health, incarceration rates, participation in entitlement programs, and other economically significant aspects of adult life. He breaks the information down demographically and talks about the consequences of achievement gaps, and compares the cost of academic interventions with the costs of low academic achievement. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

With increasing numbers of students who are identified with some form of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), classroom teachers and other educators have many questions about how best to address their needs. In this 60-minute video workshop, two NEA IDEA Cadre members use the NEA Puzzle of Autism guide to explore the common features of ASD and offer some techniques and strategies that work. Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Nel Noddings presents research, from a nonempirical philosophical perspective, that discusses the assumptions behind education policy, research, and praxis. She discusses the importance of diversity in terms of skills needed in our society, and the relationships between education and poverty. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.