IDEA Region 9: Archive

Reality Kitchen - Be Up Eugene! →

Nov 3rd

Jim Groom » →

I am an Instructional Technology Specialist and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. I have been working for over a decade in education with a consistent focus on the development of teaching and learning in higher education. In addition to my extensive experience teaching at the college level, for the past six years I have worked primarily in the...

Nov 3rd

Oct 26th

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Oct 25th

Portland's ramp-up to kindergarten delivers... →

a good program to help preschool transition to school

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Aug 19th

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Small Schools Leadership in Oregon « Linda F.... →

Check out the school in this post by Linda Nathan

Aug 19th

Rep. Ben Cannon voted to stop 'revolving door,'... →

worth following up on! Is Ben Cannon the best person for the job?

Aug 17th

Taking school choice to a whole new level |... →

Aug 14th

Former small school principal from shuttered... →

Aug 14th

The KED Program - kunskapsskolan.com →

Imagine the typical school from 10, 50 or even 100 years ago: a building divided into classrooms, all connected with dead space of corridors and hallways. The teaching staff allocated to classrooms. One teacher isolated in each room, struggling to find a level of teaching that is neither too high nor too low and at the same time trying to find some time for personalized tutoring for those who need...

Aug 8th

Oregon Connections Academy - Receive a FREE... →

I am not sure about this school. Is this what for profit charter schools look like?

Jun 21st

West Adams High, A Model For The Future? : NPR →

Jun 18th

West Adams Preparatory High School →

Interested in this model, not sure how it fits with IDEA?

Jun 18th

Oregon's Al Kennedy Alternative High School in... →

possible tour site in the fall

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Jun 13th

Clackamas Elementary's Sandy Crispin ends... →

Jun 10th

Portland State University's Last Mile program... →

Jun 10th

Every weekend, Tualatin's Hazelbrook Middle School... →

i think it is a interest partnership model between schools, parents, communities and businesses… With some schools going to four day models…I could see the fifth day used for these types of theme schools… or some type of unschooled learning community or Village Home model… just pondering and dreaming…

Jun 3rd

Oregon Charter Schools - Northwest Center for... →

a list of the 108 charter school in Oregon! worth checking out.

May 22nd

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4/8/2011 “This was a very concrete learning experience …” The first Innovation Tour in NYC concluded last week. Here is a snapshot of what we heard from participants about their experience: “Most PD (professional development) for teachers isn’t that good. I’ve had the privilege of having a few that have changed how I teach. This is definitely one of them.” “I ...

Apr 11th

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At Oregon's Stanfield High near Hermiston, nearly... →

Mar 30th

Rural Oregon sending more high school graduates to... →

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Community Transitional School: Kids' education... →

Dec 17th

School facts: Marshall - Pauling Academy of... →

Pauling Academy of Integrated Sciences (PA) is a small college preparatory school with a special focus on science and math. Located on the Marshall campus, Pauling Academy is an Expeditionary Learning (EL) School. EL is a comprehensive school reform and development model with five core practices: learning expeditions; teaching across disciplines; building a culture that fosters character,...

Dec 7th

An unlikely leader promises change for Grant High... →

Dec 4th

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Nov 8th

Oakland Teaching Fellows | Program Overview →

wonder what there focus is?

Nov 8th

Plan would close 6 Eugene schools | But it... →

Nov 4th

Oct 22nd

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The Black Parent Initiative

Oct 22nd

Home - Oregon Education Association →

Oct 22nd

United Way of Lane County, Oregon | Live United |... →

Oct 22nd

Oct 21st

Frameworks Institute: Changing the Public... →

The mission of the FrameWorks Institute is to advance the nonprofit sector’s communications capacity by identifying, translating and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing the public discourse about social problems. FrameWorks designs, commissions, manages and publishes communications research to prepare nonprofit organizations to expand their constituency base, to build...

Oct 14th

At Portland's Alder Elementary School, dreams of... →

Oct 6th

Portland's Pauling Academy has off-the-charts... →

I volunteered at Marshall last year and found a school community that took pride in their school and invited the greater community to be a part of it. I worked on a research project for the state last year and saw that the academies at Marshall are producing better test results for their population than any school in Portland. I went to City Council on Wednesday and asked Commissioner...

Oct 1st

Terra Nova - In Depth | Terra Nova High School →

erra Nova High School—a personalized learning community emphasizing individual responsibility, academic rigor and productive citizenship. Terra - earth, or land Nova - fresh, new, unusual, or extraordinary Terra Nova High School is the newest high school in the Beaverton School District. Enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year is 60 students in 9th to 12th grade and is expected to...

Oct 1st

Terra Nova Community Farm :: Home →

a big Picture Learning school based outside of Beaverton Oregon has a farm!

Oct 1st

How the Avett Brothers came to play Monday's... →

Terra Nova High School has a farm. Students from the small Beaverton school, which focuses on individual learning and environmental citizenship, work the farm. Teacher Paul Hudak leads the program. They grow fruits and vegetables and flowers behind the school where there once was a baseball diamond. It’s an organic farm run on a CSA (community supported agriculture) model. People buy...

Oct 1st

Starting a conversation!

This is not the same as meeting in person….but here are some questions I would love to get personal answers for. I will try to answer them myself soon too. Please if you know anyone that I should be talking to in the NW area, California, or Hawaii or Alaska Please let me know! Or if you want to talk to me also I would love it…. Here are some questions! Thanks in advance! When you...

Oct 1st