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                                                                                                    The Learning Network
Overview and Video

The Learning Network® is a dynamitic design that provides long-term support for student achievement and school improvement. TLN brings outside change agent into a school or district to work directly with the faculty and leadership teams on their understandings about teaching  reading an writing. The Learning Network® has been successfully implemented in elementary. middle, and high schools.

The Learning Network®
    ° Is Site-based and job-embedded
   
° Links understandings with practice through
         reflective discussion
   
° Establishes a focus on improved instruction
    
° Builds community into the school and the district

   Building on The Learning Network®
     ° Literacy Learning: Teachers as Professional
      Decision Makers summer institute
     ° The Leadership Seminar
     ° Increasing Achievement: From the Classroom
       to the District
    
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Inservice that makes a Difference

    Topics that Meet Your Needs
     ° Assessment
     ° Evaluation
     ° Planning
     ° Instruction
     ° Leadership
     ° Coaching
     °
Instructional Resources

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AWARDS
National Award for Model Professional Development

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/teacherquality/97-98/5.html
 

Title I Distinguished School
National Association of State Title I Directors (NASTID)
                  http://www.titlei.org/Documents/2002DistSch.pdf  

Comprehensive School wide Reform Demonstration Program Promising Sites
  U.S. Department of Education

Exemplary Reading Program Award
  International Reading Association
   
                        http://www.reading.org/awards/ERPA.html
(description of award only)  
          


 

   
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        The Learning Network
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                   Publications

Profiles of Successful School wide Programs
U.S. Department of Education
                     http://www.ed.gov/pubs/idea_profiles/montview.html
 

Catalog of School Reform Models
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (nwrel)
            http://ww.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/ModelDetails.asp?ModelID=33
 

What Works in the Elementary and High School Grades: 
Results-Based Staff Development
National Education Association (nea)
and National Staff Development Council (nsdc)
 

 Schools that Work: Where All Children Read and Write
Richard Allington and Patricia Cunningham
                          
http://www.ablongman.com/professional/catalog/
                               academic/product/1,4096,080133246X,00.html
(publisher’s info)

 CSRD in the Field
U.S. Department of Education