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information
about
about membership in CERA, please visit the Membership page.
Letter from the
President
Dear CERA Members and
Colleagues,
The 89th Annual CERA Conference is coming to the Manchester Grand Hyatt
in San Diego, California, for two full days on November 18-19, 2010.
As California educators and students struggle with never seen before
effects of budget cuts, it is even more important to implement
effective instructional innovations, and to continue to monitor the
effectiveness of both the program and those implementing it. We are
seeing a strong state and federal focus on applying educational data to
teacher, school and district decision-making; creating a culture and
climate that develops and supports the use of data; designing ways to
promote data use; and the imperative connection of student data to
instructional practice. This focus on educational data will also bring
changes in accountability at all levels for all students’ achievement.
According to the recently released U.S. Department of Education Report
on Use of Data Systems to Support
Reform*, states and districts are making significant progress in
building educational data systems and are starting to use valuable data
to change classroom practice and improve student achievement. The
report determined that school leaders are still searching for the best
models to mine the data to discover the best instructional methods for
students. Colleagues in the field and educational researchers will
share their findings at the next CERA Conference.
The theme for this year’s CERA Conference is Instructional Innovation for the Next Decade.
Strands
within
this
theme
are:
Determining
Teacher Effectiveness, Use of Technology, Considerations for Special
Populations, Data Systems to Support Improvement and Changing Paradigms
of Instruction, and School
Organization.
We encourage you to consider submitting a presentation proposal for the
conference. Your participation will help to build a program that
helps CERA members learn which programs are effective and which
practices can be replicated. An announcement requesting presentation
abstracts will be emailed to CERA members early spring 2010. Proposals
will be due September 17, 2010. One of our goals this year is to
broaden our conference to related organizations (e.g. school
psychologists, personnel directors, researchers in institutes of higher
education) and to strengthen our connection with graduate students.
Conference and hotel registration information will be available on this
website closer to the conference date and will be announced by email to
CERA members. Thank you for your continued interest in the advancement
of knowledge related to educational research, evaluation and assessment.
*For additional information on the Data Systems to Support Reform
Report, visit http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/reports.html#edtech.
Paula Carroll
President, CERA, 2010
Office: (209) 468-9261
Email: pcarroll@sjcoe.net
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Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego, California
November 18 – 19, 2010
Keynote Speakers:
Overview
of
the Existing and Emerging Research on Teacher Evaluation Methods
Dr. Laura Goe,
Principal Investigator for Research and Dissemination for the National
Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
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