Pay based on performance and results is commonplace in the business world. However, it has always been difficult to achieve in Education. The move toward performance-based funding versus "seat time" is growing rapidly across the nation, and some states are are making this an incentive to become innovative.
Read more about how the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and education firms Augenblick, Palaich and Associates and Evergreen Education Group have partnered to develop data examined in "Performance-Based Funding & Online Learning: Maximizing Resources for Student Success." The report includes an ambitious list of
ten elements that would need to be in place in order for this type of funding to work.
Text Based Discussions
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When you're thinking through the best ways of engaging your students, communicating and reinforcing concepts, helping them achieve mastery of new ideas and ways of thinking, and just plain getting excited about learning, it can help to have a little inspiration. Seeing what other teachers have done to develop creative, CCSS-aligned lesson plans, or looking through resource libraries to find interesting lesson plans can give your own planning an energy boost.
Who doesn't love cookies? This series of blog posts by science writer Bethany Brookshire is called COOKIE SCIENCE! She takes educators and students step-by-step through applied science, all in the name of finding cookies that taste better. If you're looking for student-friendly science news, don't miss the website, hosted by Society for Science & the Public.