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Allyn & Bacon / Merrill Professional Development

Valuable professional development excerpts from your favorite Allyn & Bacon / Merrill authors and titles. Click here to view the excerpts. Visit http://www.allynbaconmerrill.com to view their comprehensive catalog of professional development titles.

Additional Professional Development Resources

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Leadership Letters

What Should We Do About Reading Instructions
by Jim Beers College of William and Mary
Motivating Readers
by Sam Sebesta
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Spelling: The Road to Word Recognition
by Jim Beers College of William and Mary
Best Practices in Vocabulary Instruction
by Camille L. Z. Blachowicz National-Louis University
Reading Preferences and Self-Selected Reading
by Dianne L. Monson, Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Teaching Reading Assessment
by Peter Afflerbach University of Maryland at College Park
Creating a Sociocultural Context for School Literacy
by Bertha Pérez, University of Texas at San Antonio
Standards and Assessments: Where Are We and Where Are We Headed?
by Karen Wixson University of Michigan

General Professional Development Resources

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The Gateway to Educational Materials is a consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
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What Works is a clearinghouse that collects, screens, and identifies studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, policies).
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The Teacher to Teacher project will help you learn about teaching algebra, reading in the content area, differentiated instruction and more.
Link to Digital Workshops

Pearson Professional Development Resources

Learning Teams provides direct and ongoing assistance to schools seeking to improve teaching, learning, and achievement. The Learning Teams Model includes five elements, all of which are well grounded in school effectiveness research, and contribute to improved teaching and learning. Learn more about Learning Teams by visiting their web site at http://pearsonlt.com/index.htm
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LLRI engages in a variety of research projects, all motivated by problems of education. To learn more go to http://www.llri.org/index.htm
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Web-based training for busy teachers. myPearsonTraining.com is the destination for in-service training for your Pearson textbooks and technology! To learn more go to www.mypearsontraining.com
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