From: Wendy Rivenburgh (wrivenburgh@EDC.ORG)
Date: 01/30/03
Hi, everyone. I thought I'd pass along the new EDC newsletter in case it's
of interest. There are a few items of note for YouthLearn folks,
especially the Content Tour on Assessing Student Learning and the new EDC
Report on Youth and Work around the world. It would be great to hear your
thoughts on these issues--for instance, how do you determine how well your
participants are learning? If you have a moment, please share your ideas
and experiences with the list.
Many thanks,
Wendy
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Wendy Rivenburgh
YouthLearn Initiative at EDC
55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
617.618.2159 Fax 617.332.4318
wrivenburgh@edc.org
Visit YouthLearn at http://www.youthlearn.org
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THE EDC ONLINE REPORT
JANUARY 21, 2003 - Issue #2
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Welcome to The EDC Online Report, a new publication from Education
Development Center, Inc., (EDC). The EDC Online Report will bring you
highlights from our work in education and health throughout the world. Find
out more about us by visiting www.edc.org.
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In this issue:
1. New Curriculum Helps School Administrators Develop Their Content
Knowledge
2. Improving Health Care for Seriously Ill Children
3. Massachusetts Teachers Embrace Japanese Lesson Study Model in EDC Pilot
Study
4. EDC remembers Antonia Stone, Leader of the Community Technology Movement
5. Tour of the Month: Assessing Student Learning
6. New Issue of EDC's MOSAIC: Youth and Work -- Young Entrepreneurs from
Around the World Discuss Challenges, Visions
7. Subscription Information for The EDC Online Report
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1. New Curriculum Helps School Administrators Develop Their Content
Knowledge
The school administrator's role has never been more challenging. They
oversee increasingly complex, high-tech facilities while serving more and
more diverse communities. But the central task remains the same: improving
teaching and learning within a school or a district.
Read more about EDC's new curriculum designed to help administrators
develop and apply their content knowledge:
http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/lenses.asp
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2. Improving Health Care for Seriously Ill Children
For children with terminal illnesses, sometimes small details in how
they're cared for can make a huge difference. In a new EDC video created to
improve the care of seriously ill children, a young boy describes his
frustration when he can't get a nurse to move an IV stand that prevents him
from holding his mother's hand. "Why wouldn't the nurse listen to me?" he
wonders.
Read more about the Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care (IPPC) and
it's new curriculum developed by EDC for health care professionals:
http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/IPPC.asp
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3. Massachusetts Teachers Embrace Japanese Lesson Study Model in EDC Pilot
Study
What do chili peppers and mathematics have to do with each other? Last
year, Kevin Kelly, Lexington (Mass.) High School pre-Calculus teacher would
have said "nothing." But today, his answer would be "everything."
Frustrated with the standard lecture approach to mathematics, he and his
colleagues developed a hands-on, interactive lesson that uses the relative
heat of chili peppers to explore the mathematics concepts of properties and
logarithms. Using an innovative Japanese teacher development program called
"lesson study," the teachers collaboratively developed lessons by observing
each other in class and drawing on each other's insights.
Read more about Massachusetts school teams and this Japanese professional
development model: http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/lessonstudy.asp
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4. EDC Remembers Antonia Stone, Leader of the Community Technology Movement
In 1980, long before talk of the "digital divide" was commonplace among
policymakers and educators, Antonia "Toni" Stone set up Playing to Win
(PTW) in the basement of a Harlem housing project. Initially it served
inmates and ex-offenders by teaching computer skills and assisting prisons
and rehabilitation agencies. In 1992, Stone brought her work to EDC.
Learn more about the creator of one of the country's first community
technology centers, who died recently from complications of leukemia.
http://www2.edc.org/newsroom/features/stone.asp
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5. Tour of the Month: Assessing Student Learning
EDC's extensive work in student assessment goes beyond the national
testing. Evaluation is one key goal of assessment, but it isn't the only
goal. Good teachers also use assessment to inform their teaching, to make
judgments about curriculum, and to guide their work with individual
students. Take this Web tour to learn more.
http://www2.edc.org/tours/assess.asp
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6. New Issue of EDC's MOSAIC: Youth and Work -- Young Entrepreneurs from
Around the World Discuss Challenges, Visions
>From September 7-11th, 2002, world and youth leaders from more than 140
nations came together in Alexandria, Egypt for the Youth Employment Summit
(YES). More than half of the 1,800 participants were young people between
the ages of 18 and 30. This issue of MOSAIC showcases contributions of
young entrepreneurs affiliated with YES, along with key statements emerging
from the Summit.
http://www2.edc.org/Mosaic/Mosaic7/letter.asp
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