Download a copy of today's PowerPoint presentations:

• Day 1 Vision (pptx.)
• Common Core Standards (.ppt)
• SMARTER Balanced (.ppt)

Homework due today:

• Vision and High Expectations for All (.doc)

Handouts for today:

• Comparison Chart: NCLB & RTTT (.doc)
• ESEA Timeline (.doc)
• Common Core Standards (.doc)
• Turnaround Models (.doc)
• Turnaround Leader Actions Table (.doc)

Videos for today:

• Arne Duncan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mc1S8zzx0

Recommended resources:

• Common Core Curriculum – California State Academic Content Standards Commission: http://www.scoe.net/castandards/index.html
• Race to the Top: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html
• Blueprint for Reform: (.pdf)
• Academic Program Survey and the Essential Program Components: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/lp/vl/essentialcomp.asp
• Academic Program Surveys and Rubrics: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/lp/vl/improvtools.asp#aps
• Resources for Local Accountability - for full description of 6 key steps in a system for accountability for effective leadership, see link under "Effective Leadership": http://www.edgateway.net/rla/background/
• Seven Stages of Professional Learning Teams (.doc)
• What is Scientifically Based Research? (.doc)
  

Recommended web sites:

• The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement: http://www.centerforcsri.org/
• Schools Moving Up – WestEd: http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/print/htdocs/smu/home.htm
• All Things PLC: http://www.allthingsplc.info/
• The Leadership and Learning Center: http://www.leadandlearn.com/
• McREL: http://www.mcrel.org/

Recommended reading:

• Classroom Instruction that Works (Marzano, Pickering, Pollock)
• Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement (Hattie)