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BACKGROUND AND ISSUES
Although political and educational leaders, researchers, and other stakeholders develop new standards, teaching methods, and assessments and look for ways to help teachers implement them, they overlook an obvious one --
Teachers do not have adequate time in daily schedules and easy access to resources to plan, teach, and evaluate new standards, teaching methods, and assessments in their classrooms.
This is especially true for urban, low performing schools with many beginning teachers, high staff turnover, fiscal constraints, and needs to develop proven approaches to meet high expectations for all students.
LearningFront addresses these issues by combining people, teaching, and technology to improve student achievement through resources known as TaskBuilderOnline and eLearningTeacher. Specifically, LearningFront helps teachers to learn how to:
- Align new content standards, instruction, and assessment for all grades!
- Analyze classroom and State test results to monitor Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)!
- Apply research in teaching in daily learning activities and classroom tests!
- Teach toward the vision of student learning called for by NCLB!
- Plan standards-based lessons for each quarter of the school year!
- Benchmark successful teaching practices and schools to improve continuously!
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