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New England Comprehensive Assistance Center: Wende Allen, Maria-Paz Beltran Avery, Carolee Matsumoto, Steve Hamilton, Doreen Worthley, Margaret Russell Ciardi, Margaret Allen-Malley
A dynamic guide for schools to self-assess, monitor, and engage in continual, systemic improvement for increased student achievement.
Included is a CD-ROM with electronic versions of the forms and templates for creating your own components, and a poster for displaying the school’s assessment results and posting growth over time.
Biology/Biotechnology Curriculum Unit 1–Microbe Detectives: Solving a Medical Mystery
Judith Leff, Jacqueline Miller, Kathleen Norris, Elisabeth Hiles, Mamie Green, Mya Nelson
Microbe Detectives: Solving a Medical Mystery is a high school module that integrates biology and biotechnology, focusing on molecular biology and some cell biology. It follows a story line, weaving together readings, labs, activities, real-life applications, career exploration, ethical issues, an historical timeline and other elements, and contains assessment questions and scenarios. It makes academic learning exciting and relevant, and technical learning meaningful. The content meets the national science education standards, preparing students for higher education and work in bioscience.
Biology/Biotechnology Curriculum Unit 2–A Genetic Puzzle: The Search for a Solution
Judith Leff, Mya Nelson, Erin Dolan, Connie Chow, Lori Dodson
A Genetic Puzzle: The Search for a Solution is a high school module that integrates biology and biotechnology, focusing on traditional and molecular genetics. It follows a real story line, weaving together readings, labs, activities, real-life applications, career exploration, ethical issues, an historical timeline and other elements, and contains assessment questions and scenarios. The content meets the national science education standards, preparing students for higher education and work in bioscience.
Bioscience Education and Training Program Directory
Judith Leff and Maura O'Dea
This directory provides information about more than 80 high-school, college, and industry-based programs, nationwide, that prepare people for entry-level technical positions in pharmaceutical and biotechnology work settings. Entries list the unique features of each program and provide contact information. The directory also includes a summary report about issues and trends in bioscience education and training.
Building Strong Public/Private Partnerships in Information Technology: A Cross-Cultural Primer
The Techforce Initiative
This guide will help educators and employers working in Information Technology School-to-Career partnerships understand the concept of organizational culture, recognize the common issues that interfere with partnership building, and implement strategies to build strong and successful educator/employer partnerships.
Creating a High-Standard, Inclusive and Authentic Certification Process
Maria-Paz Beltran Avery
A selection from The Critical Link 3 edited by Louise Brunette, Georges Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin, Heather Clarke. This paper describes the efforts of the Massachusetts Medical Interpreters Association Certification Committee to develop and pilot a prototype of a tool to certify basic level competence in medical interpreting for the State of Massachusetts. The tool, the Medical Interpreting Assessment for Certificatyion, is described in detail and the underlying principles of assessment that were used in designing the tool are also discussed.
WEEA Equity Resource Center
In response to requests for comprehensive, hands-on materials on equity in education, the WEEA Equity Resource Center developed a series of frequently asked questions (FAQs) packets, designed to complement the Center’s popular WEEA Digests. Each FAQ packet contains a relevant WEEA Digest, an overview of the topic, fact sheets, the most frequently asked questions and answers, a checklist, and resources and organizations to help you work toward equity in education. Designed to help those who are just starting out as well as gender equity experts looking for specific information. Available free online at http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/resource/faqs/disfaq.htm, or in print for $5.00 per packet from our distribution center.
Effective Access: Teachers’ Use of Digital Resources in STEM Teaching
Katherine Hanson and Bethany Carlson
EDC's Gender, Diversities, and Technology Institute released a report culminating three years of research on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators' use of digital resources. The project, funded as a part of the National Science Foundation’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program, focused on high school STEM educators as an important and broad subset, as high school STEM remains a priority of education reform in the United States.
Read a feature article about this publication: http://main.edc.org/newsroom/features/effective.asp
Download a a free PDF copy of Effective Access: Teachers’ Use of Digital Resources in STEM Teaching (Adobe Acrobat required): http://www2.edc.org/GDI/publications_SR/EffectiveAccessReport.pdf
Equity in On-line Professional Development
Joyce S. Kaser
This publication provides guidelines for effective and equitable course design, facilitation, and interactions. By bringing together effective strategies for equitable instruction in traditional education settings with the challenges of the emerging virtual classroom, Equity in On-line Professional Development, offers a framework for effective e-learning for everyone.
Gateway to the Future: Skill Standards for the BioScience Industry
Judith Leff, Joyce Malyn-Smith, Monika Aring
This book lists all of the tasks performed by technical workers in 20 entry-level positions in the bioscience industry and details the required academic knowledge, technical skills, and employability skills. This information was gathered through collaboration with industry technicians and supervisors. Also included are recommendations for how the skill standards can be used in education and training programs and curricula.
Gender Health/Respectful Schools
Gender, Diversities, & Technology Institute and 7 Generations Video
Gender Health/Respectful Schools captures the experiences and lessons learned in a three-year project in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts schools. Funding from the Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation allowed teacher teams to develop projects that would contribute to the creation of schools in which girls and boys thrive socially, emotional, and academically; pursue interests and build competencies free from gender-biased, stereotypical expectations; and become confident that they can and do make a difference in their world. The video highlights key characteristics of gender healthy/respectful school
Joseph Ippolito, Rev. Mark A. Latcovich, and Joyce Malyn-Smith
Offers a profile of what a successful priest needs to know and be able to do. It outlines nine major areas of ministerial concern—the duties—and enumerates several tasks within each performance area. Four levels of competency are described for each task, with accompanying descriptions, laid out in a chart format. Useful for seminary administrators, professors, formation directors, continuing education of clergy directors, and for priests to use in self-assessment and professional growth plans.
IT Career Cluster Initiative Brochure
EDC, ITAA, NAB
This brochure provides information on how to pursue an education in IT, including career opportunities in IT and IT-reliant industries and the current job market outlook. For students and learners of all age groups (children, teens and adults), guidance counselors, administrators, business partners, teachers, and parents. (2nd edition)
IT Pathway Pipeline Model: Rethinking Information Technology Learning in Schools
J. Malyn-Smith, J. Donaldson, V. Spera, J. Wong, R. Kimboko, C. Llorente, M. Miller, S. Bredin, V. Guilfoy
What will it take to educate a society of knowledge workers? The Information Technology (IT) Pathway/Pipeline Model proposes a progression of skills and knowledge that links educational technology skills for learning with IT skills needed for success in high skilled, high wage careers.
Local Manufacturing Industry Skill Standards
Joyce Malyn-Smith and Joseph Ippolito
This first publication in the series contains the foundation of the Project SMART program--the 40 Manufacturing Technician I skill standards. Y.O.U. and EDC have pioneered the integrated skill standard model in which tasks, skills, and knowledge are connected to workplace problem situations. The skill standards will be useful to employers and educators looking to create or update manufacturing training programs for current and future employees, and to evaluate workers' employability and effectiveness on the job.
Making Skill Standards Work: Highlights From The Field
Judith Leff, Joyce Malyn Smith, Elisabeth Hiles
This is a practical manual, filled with information and over 100 real examples and case studies from around the country, of how to use industry skill standards to improve education. The case studies and examples, demonstrate how educators, employers, government and other community members are creating and operating successful systems and programs, using skill standards to prepare people to enter the work force or continue to higher education. They provide creative methods for dealing with common stumbling blocks that such endeavors face.
Making the Most Of On-line Learning
Oreoluwa Somolu, Joyce S. Kaser, and Katherine Hanson
This publication offers clear step-by-step guidance for anyone considering an on-line course. Explains the vocabulary of e-learning, the technology requirements; gives a sense of what to expect in a virtual learning environment and offers guidelines on how to make it work for the individual; and generally prepares first-time or novice course-takers for a successful experience.
Medical Interpreting Standards of Practice
MA Medical Interpreters Assoc. & Education Development Center, Inc.
Useful resource for coordinators of interpreter services, interpreters, trainers and health care providers who work with interpreters.
More Than Title IX: How Equity in Education has Shaped the Nation
Katherine Hanson, Vivian Guilfoy, and Sarita Pillai
Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country. But this change has not come without struggle. More Than Title IX highlights the impact of one of the most powerful instruments of change—education. The book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments for gender equity in education and tells the dramatic stories of the women and men who made these changes possible. The narrative blends historical analysis with dynamic interview excerpts with people whose actions made a difference in both educational equity and in the country as a whole. By showing how hard-won changes in education have improved life for women and men in America over the past century, the authors remind readers not to take freedoms for granted.
Gender & Diversities Institute and Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios de la Mujer
Bilingual Spanish and English proceedings from the Gender and Diversities Institute's inter-American forum. Includes presentation abstracts and summaries of discussions, with contributions from researchers and practitioners throughout the Americas.
Joyce Malyn-Smith and Vivian Guilfoy
Power Users of information and communication technologies are individuals who break out of the confines of traditional learning, demographic or technological barriers by constantly using, sharing, creating, producing or changing information in creative, innovative and/or unintended ways so that they become force multipliers in their own environments.
Ralph K. Coppola, Parametric Technology Corporation; and Joyce Malyn-Smith, EDC (editors)
This report on the Taking Action Together forum includes recommendations from more than 150 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and business professionals for actions to build a robust technology and engineering pipeline.
Reaching Students in the Gaps: A Study of Assessment Gaps, Students, and Alternatives
Staff of the New England Compact
In February 2005, four New England states (Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine) received a U.S. Department of Education grant to explore gaps in large-scale assessment systems that prevent some students from demonstrating their proficiency. The results of this work, Reaching Students In the Gaps, addresses the following questions:
- Who are the students in the gaps?
- Of all the students who are not proficient, how can states identify those who are in the assessment gaps?
- What are the attributes of students in the gaps, and how do these students perform?
- What issues in the assessments themselves contribute to the gaps?
- Are there specific aspects of multiple-choice items used in state assessments that contribute to the assessment gaps?
The studies used multiple methods to explore these research questions, each providing a particular angle from which to consider the issues of assessment gaps, students in those gaps, and assessment alternatives to lessen the gaps.
Reviled, Rejected, but Resilient: Homeless People in Recovery and Life Skills Education
John Wong, Ph.D. and Gene Mason, Ph.D.
This article presents three cases of homeless women who have overcome difficult circumstances, including incest, rape, physical abuse, alcoholism and drug addiction, and repeated incarceration in prisons and mental hospitals and become successful, employed members of society. This article is also about the Moving Ahead Program at Saint Francis House in Boston, which was instrumental in helping these women make the difficult transition from homelessness to mainstream society and from addiction to recovery.
Science Clubs for Girls: A Guide to Starting Your Own
Maria-Paz Avery, Mason Mitchell-Daniels, Kimberly Sansoucy, and Mary Memmot
Science Clubs for Girls: A Guide to Starting Your Own describes how to build, maintain, and finance an after-school science club. The report targets girls because multiple studies have shown disparities and inequities between men and women in science and math performance, career options, and career choices.
America Connects Consortium
This toolkit is designed to help locate and evaluate software that is both appropriate for high school students and suited to community technology centers settings. It provides a process for assessing both the needs of learners and instructors and the educational value of different software programs. The toolkit also features a review of the most common types of educational software available today. Finally, it includes a list of resources for locating and evaluating additional education materials.
SOS: Step with Our Suggestions on Recovery from Addiction and Alcoholism
John Wong and Gene Mason
SOS turns quotes from Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings into a tool to help recovering people, co-dependents, and treatment professionals. From suicidal thoughts to elations of family reunions; from humorous recounting of regrettable acts while intoxicated to somber accountings of personal losses, these quotes depict the heroic struggles of recovering people.
The Afterschool Academies Guidebook for Action
Center for Afterschool Education, Foundations Inc.; Community Network for Youth Development; Citizen Schools; Gary and Eve Moody; and the YouthLearn Initiative at EDC
Afterschool Academies are multi-day institutes for staff and leaders who are responsible for or instrumental in creating and leading afterschool programs, including directors, lead staff, network directors, and others. They focus on teaching and learning ‘afterschool style,’ the deliberate and thoughtful blend of content connected to success in school, with approaches and methods based in principles of child and youth development.
This guide is designed for leaders and organizations who want to build from the Academies model to create their own professional development for afterschool education and educators.
The guide was developed under a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
The Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) Curriculum
Ford PAS Staff
Ford PAS is an experience-based academic and personal development curriculum comprised of a sequence of five semester-long elective courses taught in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. Each course consists of three six-week modules. The program is an academically rigorous, standards-based interdisciplinary program that introduces students to the concepts necessary for future success. The Ford PAS program links classroom learning with the challenges students will face in post-secondary education and with the expectations of the workplace they will face as adults. These links are forged through community-wide, cooperative efforts innovative partnerships that join local high schools, colleges and universities, and businesses. Ford PAS is built around three core elements:
- Academic Knowledge: Delivering rigorous, standards-based content in math, science, social studies, and English language arts
- Interpersonal and Human Performance Skills: Teaching skills in critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, communication, personal management, and lifelong learning
- Business Concepts: Exploring content in finance, marketing, product quality, information systems, design and engineering, energy use, product development, workforce history, the environment, efficiency, planning, the global economy, international trade, and global citizenship.
The YouthLearn Guide: A Creative Approach to Working With Youth and Technology
Morino Institute
The YouthLearn Guide is designed to help after-school and in-school programs create and implement high-quality, technology-enriched learning activities. This easy-to-use manual contains more than 160-pages of hands-on lessons, worksheets, and sample activities that have proven effective at inspiring young people's curiosity and creativity.
TV411®: A Television And Video Series
Adult Literacy Media Alliance
TV411® is an exciting new 30-part video series for adult learners that uses real-life topics to teach pre-GED level basic skills. TV411® builds reading skills, improves writing ability, and makes sense of math! Created with high production values, this indispensable teaching tool is packed with expert advice and proven tips to promote active learning. Content focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects include reading comprehension, research how-to's, writing to others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions, test taking, and more. The series also includes a learner’s guide and teacher’s guide for the series as well as an accompanying 12-page student workbook for each video episode. Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA) also produces theme-based literacy kits. Each kit contains six or more units with accompanying video segments, teacher’s guide and learner activities. Current TV411 Literacy Kits include: "Family Learning Kit," a kit designed for both parents and young children to work together on literacy and numeracy activities; "Read All About Kit," a literacy kit for adults and young adults using newspapers; "Financial Literacy Kit," a kit with activities on such topics as budgeting and smart shopping; and "Health Wise Kit," a valuable literacy curriculum based on health care topics.
Marguerite Roza, PhD, New England Comprehensive Center
The "Toolkit" is intended for use by schools and district leaders and their staff interested in using data to improve their school programs to ensure that every student can reach high levels of achievement. A six-step process guides school improvement teams as they collect, understand, and use data for creating and revising school action plans designed to increase student achievement, particularly those students who have traditionally been underserved. Assistance can be provided by the New England Comprehensive Center at EDC, Inc. for interested users who meet these criterias: New England district and state department of education level individuals providing assistance to high poverty schools or schools with a high proportion of students served through the Improving America's Schools Act (ESEA). Assistance also provided to schools that meet fit the above description.
Work and Life Literacy: A New Paradigm for Education in the 21st Century
Vivian Guilfoy and John Wong
Inequitable access to technology and the widening effect of globalization on the socioeconomic divide between the peoples of the world require a new vision for education in the 21st century—universal literacy in Work and Life (WL). The Work and Life Literacy model is a holistic approach that empowers individuals to establish a foundation for successful and productive work and life and pursue life-long learning.
