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Utilizing the Village: Building Support for Students Success' in Rural Communities is a three-part webinar series focused on rural dropout prevention and recovery.
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August 24, 2012
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The Parents as Teachers program is a home visitation model that supports families with young children. Participating children have seen big gains in general development, school readiness, health, and parent-child involvement.
The featured innovation of this
Rural School Innovations Series Webinar from June 2012 was Parents as Teachers, and focused on the i3 "Improving Educational Outcomes for American Indian Children" project, named BabyFACE.
Date:
June 17, 2012
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The fifth in a series of webinars sponsored by The Rural School and Community Trust is June 13 and there is no cost for registration.
Date:
May 29, 2012
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The first of three dropout prevention webinars sponsored by U.S. Department of Education with assistance from Jobs for the Future is May 3 and registration is very limited.
Date:
April 28, 2012
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The latest Rural Trust webinar on innovation in rural education featured the Niswonger Foundation’s College and Career Ready Consortium, which serves 26,100 students in 29 Tennessee high schools. We touch the highlights of that webinar here.
The Center for Midwestern Initiatives hosted the webinar
Rural Classroom: Importance of Cooperative Learning—Rural Trust Global Teacher Fellows' Perspective on November 10, 2011.
Date:
October 21, 2011
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The Niswonger Foundation's
Northeast Tennessee College and Career Ready Consortium was the focus of the fourth Rural School and Community Trust webinar in the 2010-2011 Rural School Innovations Webinar Series.
Date:
August 30, 2011
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The fourth webinar in a series on rural school innovations is scheduled for September 21st. Sign up now.
Date:
August 25, 2011
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The
New England Network for Personalization and Performance (NETWORK), created by the Plymouth, Massachusetts School District and the Center for Secondary School Redesign, Inc. (CSSR), was the focus of the third Rural School and Community Trust webinar in the 2010-2011 Rural School Innovations Webinar Series.
Date:
April 26, 2011
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The Rural Trust is conducting a series of webinars featuring rural school innovations, including programs that won federal i3 grants and proposed to work in rural communities. The March webinar featured the Search Institute’s BARR program, which builds developmental assets among high school students.
Date:
March 29, 2011
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Rural Trust Policy Director
Marty Strange is the featured guest in a
Kappan Conversation at 4 p.m. ET, Thursday, March 24.
Register by March 22 to take part in this special webinar on "Finding Fairness for Rural Students."
Date:
March 16, 2011
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Search Institute's "
Building Assets-Reducing Risks Program: Replication and Expansion of an Effective Strategy to Turn Around Low-Achieving Schools" was the focus of this Rural School Innovations Webinar from the Rural Trust.
Date:
March 15, 2011
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“Schools to Watch: School Transformation Network" was the theme of the first event in the Rural Trust's 2010-2011 Rural School Innovations Webinar Series.
Audio and Presentation PDF Now Available!.
John White, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach at the U.S. Department of Education, is inviting rural superintendents and principals to participate in a webinar on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and rural schools on
Thursday, May 27, 2010, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
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