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Region VI Education Service Center
Resources
RESC VI Library
The Region VI Professional Development Library contains books, videos, kits, and other materials in the areas of curriculum and instruction, classroom management/discipline, assessment, multi-cultural classrooms, parent/family/community involvement, school improvement, special populations/at-risk, staff development, training materials, technology, and school-to-career. Teachers and administrators may check out these items.
The Center also keeps a number of study guides available for the Praxis series as well as the ParaPro Assessment.
Please contact Region VI via phone or e-mail for more information.
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| Jane Rathburn |
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Secretary
jane.rathburn@la.gov
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(318) 357-2423
(318) 357-2461 Fax
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Watch D.O.G.S. Accross America
Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) is an innovative program focusing on the prevention of violence in our children's schools by using the positive influence of fathers for a two-fold purpose: (1) to provide an unobtrusive security presence, and (2) to provide a positive and active role-model for children at the school. Fathers, stepfathers, and grandfathers are asked to spend at least one day at school volunteering as security monitors, reading mentors, sports referees, listening ears, or for whatever needs to be done to plant seeds of success in the lives of children.
The Watch D.O.G.S. program has been recognized by the United States Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and has been involved in the U.S. Department of Education’s P.F.I.E. (Partnership For Family Involvement In Education). It was also endorsed by Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cecil Picard in the Spring of 2003.
Watch D.O.G.S. Accross America
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| Trisha Weaver |
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School Improvement Coordinator
trisha.weaver@la.gov
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(318) 357-2456
(318) 357-2461 Fax
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Middle School Online Staff Development Initiative
The Online Middle School Staff Development Initiative combines the resources of NSU, local school districts, the Louisiana Middle School Association, and the Louisiana State Department of Education in a unified effort to improve teacher preparation for middle level education. The three areas critical to this initiative are middle school concepts, technology integration, and new academic curriculum standards implementation. This Initiative will also impact undergraduate students in elementary and secondary education, special education, alternative certification, and graduate programs in educational leadership, educational technology, and adult education as well as middle school teachers and administrators throughout Louisiana.
This project provides a Web-based on-line workshop series addressing three areas of change identified with successful middle schools. The professional development series focuses on:
1) Middle School Concept
2) Technology Integration
3) Accountability
Middle School Online Staff Development Initiative
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DIBELS
The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.The measures were developed upon the essential early literacy domains discussed in both the National Reading Panel (2000) and National Research Council (1998) reports to assess student development of phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, and automaticity and fluency with the code. Each measure has been thoroughly researched and demonstrated to be reliable and valid indicators of early literacy development and predictive of later reading proficiency to aid in the early identification of students who are not progressing as expected. When used as recommended, the results can be used to evaluate individual student development as well as provide grade-level feedback toward validated instructional objectives.
DIBELS
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| Debbie LaCaze |
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Reading First Coordinator
debbie.lacaze@la.gov
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(318) 357-2454
(318) 357-2461 Fax
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National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards® is rooted in the belief that the single most important action this country can take to improve schools and student learning is to strengthen teaching.
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is leading the way in making teaching a profession dedicated to student learning and to upholding high standards for professional performance. We have raised the standards for teachers, strengthened their educational preparation through the standards, and created performance-based assessments that demonstrate accomplished application of the standards.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Website
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