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Troxell, L.A. – Charters, LAUSD & LACOE

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Quotes

"Those that don't make the move to "the cloud" will find themselves marginalized"

"If first base is current thinking and second base is extraordinary thinking, you can't steal second base without taking your foot off first", Steve Rosenthal, CEO of GAP.

New KCLS Series: The Teacher’s Hour: Response to Instruction and Intervention

ANNOUNCING the NEW KLCS SERIES!

The Teacher’s Hour: Response to Instruction and Intervention

The first broadcast is tomorrow night, Wednesday, February 24, 2010,
beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Tune in to your local KLCS station to view best practices happening all
over LAUSD!

This Wednesday’s show features Cienega ES, Van Nuys MS, South Gate HS
and how they are addressing students’ needs through [...]

Document Cameras & Projectors: Cool Use #9 “Jigsaw Notes”

JIGSAW NOTES ———————————————————————————–

CONTENT AREA: ANY

GRADE LEVELS: MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

Students can work together to write the complete notes for any given topic. Rather

than only giving a report verbally, a document camera allows students to

collaboratively produce valuable notes for the class.

For any Subject or Content Area

MATERIALS

- Document camera

- Projector

- Paper with subtopic headings listed and [...]

Document Cameras & Projectors: Cool Use #8 “Proofreading Analysis”

PROOFREADING ANALYSIS ————————————————-

CONTENT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE

GRADE LEVELS: MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL

Evaluation requires a high level of cognitive processing. The following activity can be used to teach a specific grammar skill, as a review activity, or to reinforce the value of proofreading.

MATERIALS

- Document camera

- Projector

- List of sentences with mistakes to proofread

- [...]

Classroom 2.0 Seminar for L.A. School Principals

How do teachers integrate 21st Century technology into a seamless learning and teaching environment?  …  including interactive whiteboards, document cameras, student responders and countless other tools?

Register to attend an intriguing and informative presentation in the Los Angeles area March 23.

It’s easy to see the benefits of many of the 21st Century learning tools & techniques, but having [...]

Linked Learning: Better way to prepare H.S. students for real life w/ Multiple Pathways

Whats the big deal?  This effort helps High School Students prepare for real life, both additional schooling afer high school and vocational readiness.  This is opposed to simply delineating between college bound and career worker students, and hopes to utilize small learning communities to grow overall life skills for all students.

What is the Linked Learning [...]

Grass Roots Group to fight LAUSD Arts Budget Cuts

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/arts-advocates-mobilize-to-fight-proposed-lausd-budget-cuts.html

January 7, 2010 | 10:00 am  LA TIMES
A proposal to slash arts teachers from elementary schools in the L.A. Unified School District has stoked community anger and fomented a grass-roots movement to fight the cuts.

Facing a budgetary shortfall of nearly $470 million in the upcoming 2010-11 school year, LAUSD is considering reductions across the board that include [...]

Grant Writing Ideas/Best Practices for Public, Charter, Private Schools

Grant Writing  Notes                                                  Dave Boller |  Troxell, Los Angeles, CA

Grants are important than ever,  and more competitive than ever.  But they are there, and with some smart effort, you can win them.

Once you do the first one, you’ll be doing more grants.  Get started.

2 Approaches to Begin

1. RFP Search in specific georgraphical or subject areas

2. [...]

Quality Education Projector for under $500

Wow.  Projectors just keep getting better and less expensive. I remember the days of three gun projectors that cost $12000 and more. Well, here is  a new model from Hitachi, long considered one of the high quality leaders in 3LCD projectors, much better than those older $12K projectors, that sells in the $400-$500 range to education [...]

LAUSD Computer Science program recognized by U.S. Congress

Only one in two thousand K-12 students in California took the AP test for computer science in 2008.  That’s .o5% … much much less than 1%.   Strange results considering computer science is more relevant than ever and remains amongst the highest categories in employment growth projections.

Urbans students may still shy away from computer science.  LAUSD’s [...]

U.S. is Still #1 in Manufacturing & Needs Well Educated Students

The recent fear-laden joke is: “Wow, we don’t make anything in America anymore … what are we going to do for jobs, sell hamburgers to each other?”  But you may be surprised to learn that the U.S. still maintains the largest, most important manufacturing base of any nation in the world.  The U.S.’s manufacturing base is over twice the size of [...]

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