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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…

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AI 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…

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AI 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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Reform Processes that Consider the Local, Rural Context

By Thomas A. Butler, Ph.D., Executive Director, Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, Altoona, PA Editor’s Note: This Perspectives article is part of a series. Please also read the related research article Getting Better Together: Innovations for Rural Learners and Communities Design Thinking and Improvement Science: Iterative Processes that Solve Problems Considering the Local Context Over the course of…

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Moving Beyond NCLB: Creating Education Imagineers

By Thomas A. Butler, Ph.D., Executive Director, Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, Altoona, PA Editor’s Note: This Perspectives article is part of a series. Please also read the related research article Getting Better Together: Innovations for Rural Learners and Communities Education Imagineers view education through a lens of possibility. Let’s be charitable and say that No Child Left…

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Finding Innovations in Rural School Districts; 3 “Es” the ESA Can Do

Editor’s Note: This Perspectives article is part of a series dedicated to rural schools. Please also read the related research article Getting Better Together: Innovations for Rural Learners and Communities, By Thomas A. Butler, Ph.D., Executive Director, Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, Altoona, PA “If it wasn’t for the Intermediate Unit, our school district would not be able…

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Innovative College and Career Readiness in Appalachia

By Dr. Rebecca Roach, Associate Director, Kentucky Educational Development Corporation D.J. was a new student, and like many students attending a new high school, he was not doing well.  Although he demonstrated academic potential, he showed little interest in school and even less interest in college.  Then Lana Sowders, the Youth Career Connect (YCC) Career…

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Finding Teachers in Our Own Back Yard

One agency’s solution to the teacher shortage crisis in Washington state Washington’s demand for teachers increased by 250 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to Washington state’s Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) (WA Office of PI, April 2018).  School district human resources directors attested to the need in a fall 2016 survey by the state…

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A Historic Look: Creating Pathways to Becoming an Antiracist Multicultural Organization (Part I)

(Part I of a two-part series) By Melia LaCour Executive Director, Equity in Education, Puget Sound Educational Service District   Educational Service Agencies (ESAs) are uniquely positioned to provide catalytic leadership for widespread, socially just, educational transformation. By building their own capacity to dismantle the institutional racism entrenched in our educational system, ESAs, in collaboration…

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