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McREL Evaluation

McREL identified significant, positive relationships between Learning Bridges coursework and student achievement in both reading and mathematics. Effect sizes for significant relationships ranged from ES = .31 to ES = .56 and can be interpreted as medium to large according to Cohen’s guidelines. Females outscored their peers by .27; students of color outscored their peers by .22; students living in poverty outscored their peers by .14, and English language learners outscored their peers by .41 standard deviation units.

McREL 2009 Study

McREL 2008 Study

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WELCOME to the Land of Enchantment - New Mexico!

The Cooperative Education Services organization, that supports the State of New Mexico's teachers and students, has chosen Learning Bridges to provide the professional development for New Mexico educators. We are honored to welcome them to our growing team of educators making a difference in learning for students. CES partners with the New Mexico School Boards Association, the New Mexico Coalition of School Administrators, and New Mexico REAP, which recruits new teachers to New Mexico.

WELCOME to NEA Academy!

NEA Academy has chosen Learning Bridges to provide online courses through the NEA Academy. NEA Academy is the National Education Association's Web site devoted to meeting the professional needs of teachers and education support professionals. All professional development courses offered through the NEA Academy are carefully screened against a set of quality standards developed by NEA members in consultation with the National Staff Development Council. Only the best courses of the highest quality make it through the screening process.

Aloha Hawaii!

Hawaii's Professional Development System (PDE3), under the Hawaii Department of Education Human Resources, provides teachers an opportunity to learn new skills to become highly qualified in their areas of expertise. The Hawaii Department of Education has chosen Learning Bridges to assist their teachers in improving achievement for all students through their PDE3 System. Mahalo!!!

Why Learning Bridges?

If teacher effectiveness is to be tied to student performance as measured by District or State Tests, the questions to ask are...

  1. Will the professional development that builds capacity in teachers make a significant difference in academic achievement?
  2. If so, how much difference?

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Closing the Gaps

Learning Bridges® is proud to announce the availability of the Culturally Proficient Teaching Certificate from California State University – Bakersfield through four (4) new courses.

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Learning Bridges System

EVERY teacher in North Carolina has access to the MOST effective strategies for their state standards in Language Arts and Mathemeatics. Teachers have access to powerful interventions needed for low test scores.

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Free Resources & Featured Specials
Featured Online Class - EDCI 607AA Foundations of Culturally Proficient Teaching

EDCI 607AA Foundations of Culturally Proficient Teaching

This is a foundation course that is not typical, nor is it deficit based. Foundations of Culturally Proficient Teaching presents an asset model where the focus is on the learner. The biggest myth in education is that we can close the gap by only focusing on improving achievement (i.e. curriculum, instruction and assessment), when the truth of the matter is that to close the gap we must also focus on the students’ culture and examine the conditions that create barriers to inclusive instruction. Participants examine their own culture, their students’ culture, and examine how culture and economics (wealth and poverty) impact their view on which students are teachable and which students are not.

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FREE Instructional Strategy - Teaching Critical Thinking - Effect Size = 1.32

Teaching Critical Thinking - Effect Size = 1.32 Impact on Achievement - Superior

When students can think critically, they are able to gather, synthesize evaluate and use information. They are able to find relationships between pieces of information to create and test rules of categorization. They use proper argumentation to evaluate, defend, or critique their own and others ideas. They can find and evaluate solutions or alternative ways of treating problems. Student think and problem solve logically to hypothesize, make inferences, and arrive at conclusions based on evidence. This allows your students to make informed decisions.

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FREE Parent Activity - Language Arts - Grade 6

Language Arts - Grade 6

Standard: Elements of Literature: The student recognizes complex elements of plot (e.g., cause and effect relationships, conflicts, resolutions, etc.)

Students, who can look for the PATTERNS that exist in stories, are better able to think critically about that content. They can more easily compare and contrast stories to other stories or their personal lives. They are able to draw conclusions and make generalizations about stories with similar patterns. Students can analyze stories more easily when they can recognize the elements of plot.

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Featured Instructor- Tamara Edwards

Tamara Edwards

My name is Tamara Edwards. I find such joy in my work with Learning Bridges. Honestly, I feel I have gained more from my students (fellow teachers) than they even gain from me. I love to hear the different things that they are doing in their classrooms. It is inspiring and reassuring to hear of such great things happening in so many classrooms across this country.

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Featured Teaching Resource - How the Brain Influences Behavior

How the Brain Influences Behavior
How The Brain Influences Behavior
Management Strategies for Every Classroom
David A. Sousa

In easy-to-understand language, the author presents current information on brain development and function and highlights factors that affect social and emotional decision making and negative behaviors like impulsivity, defiance, and violence.

Comprehensive yet concise, this guide for K–12 teachers and counselors provides methods for teaching self-control and fostering positive relationships with troubled students and provides case studies that match effective strategies with specific behaviors.

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Discussion Topic - What do YOU think?

A Third America - Permanent Underclass

A new College Board document, The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color" reported in Education Week (Quillen, 2/3/10) that, "Male students who are members of minority groups continue to face overwhelming obstacles to pursing their academic aspirations. The result is a little-talked about "third America" that is predominantly male, largely incapable of contributing to society, and often destined to be incarcerated." U. S. Representative (AZ) Paul Raul Grijalva says, "It's gotten to the point where we're talking about, almost, a permanent underclass in this country, and that is a very, very dangerous development." Grijalva is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

The College Board report suggests that male students across minority backgrounds cite these reasons: lack of male role models, a search for respect outside of education, the sense of a failing education system, poverty, language barriers, community pressures, and a loss of cultural memory.

What do YOU think? Is this a crisis being overlooked? If so, what do you think should be happening?

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