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Growing Teachers: Five Essential Elements of a Large-Scale System of Learning
Growing Teachers: Five Essential Elements of a Large-Scale System of Learning Back to Blog Growing Teachers: Five Essential Elements of a Large-Scale System of Learning March 14, 2023 By: Kristy Kueber-Pope, Growing Readers Specialist, Metropolitan Regional Educational Service Agency. She can be reached by phone at 404-667-4734 and by email at kristy.kueber@mresa.org. Kathy Matthews, Growing Readers…
Read MoreFrom Survive to Thrive: Business Model Innovation within the Educational Service Agency
By Dr. Jo Ann Marie Steinbauer Consultant and researcher This study explored how and to what degree Education Service Agency (ESA) leaders apply business model innovation to promote organizational sustainability and growth. More specifically, this research aimed to unearth the successes, challenges, and outcomes ESA leaders have experienced in applying business model innovation. A qualitative…
Read MoreWhat Do We Really Know about the Teacher Shortage and What Can We Do?
By: Dr. Kay Shurtleff, Region 10 Research & Evaluation Analyst Educator shortages are a topic of conversation and concern in schools and school districts across the country. We all know teachers who routinely cover other teachers’ classes, are overburdened with larger class sizes, and are unable to be away from the classroom for professional development…
Read MoreLeadership and Adversity in Times of Crisis: Diamonds in the Rough
By Dr. Gregory S. Koons, Executive Director, Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29 The pandemic has posed numerous challenges on educational leaders, and consequently, the pressures faced have created opportunities for educators to shine brightly. Pressure is “the application of force to something by something else in direct contact with it” (Merriam-Webster, 2021). As a resident, educator,…
Read MoreEducational Service Agencies: Review of Selected/Related Literature
The purpose of this article is to provide an extensive description of Educational Service Agencies (ESAs) across the United States. The article will be divided into sections that include (a) a description of ESAs, (b) services offered by ESAs, (c) the organizational structure of ESAs, (d) funding for ESAs, and (e) ESA partnerships. By Dr.…
Read MoreAt-Risk Student Identification and Progress Monitoring
Machine Learning Methods for K-12 Early Warning Systems by Michael L. Fuller, Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center and Mackenzi Brozovich, Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center In educational settings, an early warning system (EWS) identifies students who are at-risk for one or more adverse educational outcomes related to student achievement, progression, and graduation. Specific examples include…
Read MoreThe Tenets of Care: A Perspective from a School Crisis Responder
Abstract Crisis response work in our schools is a necessary service as an educational setting must be stable and free from disturbance in order for meaningful learning to take place. Now more than ever, our efforts to ensure that educational environments are fortresses of safety and acceptance have become a paramount concern within American schools.…
Read MoreDeveloping School Building Administrators to Lead the Next Generation
A Partnership between Pittsburg State University and Greenbush Education Service Center By Dawn R. Martin, Pittsburg State University In this edition of Perspectives, the author Dawn Martin examines the “pipeline” for future education leaders via a research project involving a University-ESA partnership. Kansas, along with the rest of the United States, is experiencing increasing turnover in…
Read MoreAI and the ESA: Continuing a Conversation
This is Part II of a two-part series about AI and the ESA By Thomas Collins and Susan Leddick “AI will be economically significant precisely because it will make something important much cheaper. What will AI technologies make so cheap? Prediction.” “Organizations can exploit prediction machines by adopting AI tools to assist with executing current…
Read MoreAI and the ESA: Opening a Conversation
by Thomas Collins and Susan Leddick “The world now stands on the cusp of a technological revolution in artificial intelligence and robotics that may prove as transformative for economic growth and human potential as were electrification, mass production, and electronic telecommunications in their eras.” MIT Work of the Future (David Autor, 2019) “Executives need to put…
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