All interested (and all teachers, principals, curriculum directors and education coaches should be) should go to http://www.CAST.org.

I also strongly suggest reading Mel Levine’s book A Mind at a Time and looking into the Schools Attuned training at http://www.amindatatime.org or http://www.schoolsattuned.org

I just listened to your radio interview Jeff - very cool! I am so appreciative of the compassionate tone you set and how well you spoke of teachers. You were humble, enthusiastic and just plain great!

Here’s what I heard about CLE and the programs that help improve teaching and learning while also encouraging involvement from the greater Lorain County community:

CLE is “All about quality for the sake of our children” – solving problems, offering advice, promoting best practices, assisting teachers with investigation and innovation

Lesson Sharing - encouraging teachers to share what works, stimulating creativity and collegiality

Universal Design for Learning – increased access to learning for all students

Learning Style Assessments - increasing student engagement and metacognition

Informing the public about the “Value Added” process

“There is more to life than Proficiency Test Scores…” School contributions to helping foster responsible child development - Nice!

Teachers are “Heroes” – championing the valuable work of teachers and validating the challenges faced each day

Reminders of the expectations of parents – to do the best that we can to educate their children – this is our responsibility and our duty

Promotion of educational technology as a powerful tool to increase student achievement

Great work, Jeff! Thank you.