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Advancing Issues Regarding Race and Equity

Assessment for Learning

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Early Childhood Education

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Gifted and Advanced Learners

Higher Education and K–12 in Service of Teaching and Learning

Hispanic/Latino American Critical Issues

Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Instruction

 

International Alliance for Invitational Education

Literacy, Language, and Literature

Mentoring Leadership and Resource

Multiple Intelligences

Performance Assessment for Leadership

Personalized Learning

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Professional Learning Communities

Student-Driven Learning

Advancing Issues Regarding Race and Equity 

  • Connects educators interested in supporting equitable outcomes students regardless of culture or race.
  • Explores critical issues that support school improvement and reform focused on reducing the achievement gap between racial and ethnic subgroups.

Facilitator: Kelly Brown

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Assessment for Learning 

Website: www.ascd-assess4learning.org

  • Allows members to share philosophy, visions, and strategies for developing and implementing effective and balanced classroom and school system assessment programs.
  • Communicates with members through a newsletter to share information and resources regarding the critical role of assessment in the learning process.

Facilitators: Robert Hogg, Michael Rulon

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Brain-Compatible Learning 

Website: http://braincompatiblelearning.org

  • Promotes awareness and understanding of how brain research translates into practice.
  • Shares information on brain-compatible education through conferences, workshops, and newsletters
  • Connects educators with mutual interest in the brain as the organ for learning.

Facilitators: Pauline Stonehouse

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Early Childhood Education 

  • Fosters the dissemination of information, knowledge, research, and resources among individuals who share a common purpose and commitment to early childhood education.
  • Examines critical issues in order to promote understanding and thinking skills, placing an emphasis on planning and implementing developmentally appropriate practices and programs.

Facilitators: Tim Kinard, Kathleen Fite

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FlexED 

  • A community in which educators can come together and create self-care routines with fitness and nutrition plans that will help them burn stress, fuel appropriately and gain energy.

Facilitators: Kim Meyer

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Gifted and Advanced Learners 

  • Raise awareness regarding the unique academic, social, and emotional needs of gifted and advanced learners.
  • Serve as a forum for current and relevant dialogue regarding designing, supporting, and sustaining effective, diverse gifted education programs and services.
  • Support and advocate for equity and access of culturally, linguistically, and socio-economically diverse gifted and advanced learners to gifted education programs.
  • Share promising practices and current research in the field of gifted education.

Facilitators: Jaime Castellano, Diane Heacox, Nielsen Pereira

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Higher Education and K–12 in Service of Teaching and Learning (HEKSTL) 

  • Focuses on the connections between higher education and K–12 as they influence preservice and inservice teacher preparation to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools.
  • Informs and contributes to the discussion about "research-based" decision making as it relates to teaching (training).
  • Enhances the ASCD value of partnering by collaborating with more institutions of higher education.
  • Identifies and develops collaboration models that match the needs of a variety of institutions.

Facilitator: Diane Heacox

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Hispanic/Latino American Critical Issues 

Website: www.fascd.org/hcin.htm

  • Commits to enhancing the academic achievement of Hispanic/Latino American youth.
  • Serves as a forum on contemporary and relevant issues as related to the education of Hispanic/Latino American youth.
  • Strives to narrow the achievement gap and increase input of Hispanic/Latino American educators on relevant educational issues.

Facilitators: Hilda Baca-Fetcenko, Jaime Castellano

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Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Instruction 

  • Promotes the development, implementation, and evaluation of interdisciplinary curriculum at all levels of education.
  • Helps members share information on integration of cross-disciplinary approaches.

Facilitator: Lois Stanciak

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International Alliance for Invitational Education 

  • Members share the mission to enhance lifelong learning and promote positive change in organizations.
  • Cultivates the personal and professional growth and satisfaction of educators and allied professionals.

Facilitators: Melissa Cain, Joan R. Fretz

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Literacy, Language, and Literature 

Website: www.languageliteracyliteratureascdnetwork.com

  • Serves as a resource of professional interests and concerns relating to policy and practice in the language arts instructions program.
  • Provides opportunities for sharing inquiry and response concerning mutual efforts in areas of language, literacy, and literature.
  • Provides information on materials to teach the arts of language and literature and on application across the curriculum.
  • Serves as a reference for annotated professional and children's books and highlights from current professional journals.

Facilitator: Esther Fusco

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Mentoring Leadership and Resource 

Website: www.mentors.net

  • Shares experiences with others involved in mentoring.
  • Learns from others about their mentor programs.
  • Provides a vehicle for mentoring initiatives.
  • Promotes new teacher induction training.
  • Establishes models for professional development through mentoring.

Facilitators: Richard Lange, Amelia Hicks

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Multiple Intelligences 

  • Promotes the use of multiple intelligences as a tool to improve individual instruction and help all students learn.
  • Provides a forum for members to share strategies and techniques for implementing multiple intelligences.

Facilitator: Thomas Hoerr 

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Performance Assessment for Leadership 

Website: www.shsu.edu/~edu_pal

  • Promotes an integrated view of the educational leader's role.
  • Advocates the improvement of educational leadership programs.
  • Provides a forum for sharing what works in performance-based assessment in leadership preparation programs.
  • Influences planning and evaluation groups, such as accreditation and state-related organizations, to align practice with research.
  • Provides opportunities to engage with colleagues in reflective dialogue and self-renewing practice.

Facilitators: Barbara Polnick, Karla Eidson

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Personalized Learning 

  • Advocating for our schools in meeting the needs of 21st century learners, Personalized Learning is an intentional shift in our approach to teaching and learning. 
  • Components of discussion include mastery learning, instructional technology, and flexible learning environments in terms of space, time and pace, so they are student-driven with a teacher-facilitated approach.

Facilitator: Jill Thompson

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Professional Capital 

  • Exploring the need for collective action by teachers and leaders to drive effective and long lasting change in our schools.
  • A fresh approach to strengthen professional effectiveness.

Facilitator: Pauline Stonehouse

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Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) 

In today's age of accountability, schools are called upon to increase student achievement. One strategy utilized to improve instruction and thereby increase student achievement is to employ teacher collaboration through professional learning communities.  

This ASCD Professional Interest Community provides a forum for educators to share research, explore the benefits and associated challenges of professional learning communities, and network with others on the topic.

Facilitator: Lori Stollar 

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Student-Driven Learning 

Website: http://studentdrivenlearning.net/

This ASCD Professional Interest Community seeks to help more schools educate the whole child by empowering that child to be the main driver in their own education.

Find out how it's working across the globe and the steps you can take to make it a reality in your school.

Facilitator: Jethro Jones

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