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Fwd: Woo Hoo! Exciting News from Summer Dreamers!

From: Cray, Christine <ccray1@pghboe.net>
Subject: Woo Hoo! Exciting News from Summer Dreamers!

 

Hello Past Summer Dreamers Academy Activities Providers!

 

It may be cold outside, but the past few days have been quite busy for the Summer Dreamers team! As you hopefully saw, on Tuesday some exciting news was released related to Summer Dreamers and our participation in the Wallace Foundation's Summer Learning Demonstration Study.

 

The first wave of findings, looking at student performance in the fall, just after campers attended the 2013 Summer Dreamers Academy and returned to school as 4^th graders, shows that children who attended SDA gained a meaningful advantage in math compared to their peers who applied but were not accepted. The impact was equal to about 20% of what 3^rd grade students learn in a year! These findings were consistent across all 5 participating Districts, and we had even greater outcomes in Pittsburgh! (More about our local results will be shared on January 22^nd.)

 

In ELA, the evaluation showed no meaningful advantage for children who attended any of the 5 district programs, based on assessment of reading comprehension and vocabulary skills; however it did identify a few key factors that correlated with positive outcomes. Specifically, grade-level teaching experience (having a Summer Dreamers teacher who had taught 3^rd or 4^th grade during the school year), instructional quality (as measured by an observation rubric developed by RAND), and site orderliness (having clear and effective plans for handling misbehavior, and minimizing bullying).

 

We're thrilled by the outcomes in math, and, while the ELA findings were initially disappointing, we are considering how we can most effectively connect our efforts with the District's early literacy work to hopefully make meaningful gains with younger students, whose fundamental reading skills are still developing.  Additionally, we are looking at other local level data, including DIBELS, in hopes of gaining further insight in to potential areas of impact.

 

THANK YOU for your hard work and involvement in Summer Dreamers.  You, along with your staff, played a key role in these results! We appreciate all that you have done to ensure that our campers benefit from a high quality summer learning experience.

 

You can learn more about these initial findings at www.wallacefoundation.org/readyforfall, and we look forward to the release of additional findings, including impacts on school year attendance rates, behavior, and state test scores, which will come out in the summer.

 

For those of you with whom we will be partnering again for 2015, I look forward to connecting with you throughout the spring as we think more deeply about how to utilize this information to further strengthen Summer Dreamers for this coming summer and beyond. In the meantime, please share this exciting news with your colleagues and staff, and feel free to reach out to me with any thoughts, questions, or ideas!

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Fwd: The Keynesian Toolbox Is Empty -- Plus, My Show Just Got Twice As Useful

Check out these podcasts.

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From: "Tom Woods" <woods@mises.org>
Date: Dec 9, 2014 11:47 PM
Subject: The Keynesian Toolbox Is Empty -- Plus, My Show Just Got Twice As Useful
To: <mark@rauterkus.com>
Cc:

December 9, 2014 View this email in your browser LATEST NEWS My Show Just Got Twice As Useful The new TomWoods.com made its debut last week! No longer are we using that page on SchiffRadio.com for the Tom Woods Show. The show can now be found right on TomWoods.com -- and with full-fledged, helpful show notes for each episode! Please, do me a favor and click this link to see an example. Every single episode will look like this from now on. Enjoy!   Just Added Course #12! The great Gerard Casey, professor of philosophy at University College Dublin, and author of Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State, just submitted course number 12 at LibertyClassroom.com: The History of Political Thought, Part II. All the major thinkers, and some minor ones, from the sixteenth century to the present are here, from Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, and John Rawls. Click here for the lecture titles!   Jan 24, 2015 Mises Circle in Houston Houston, TX April 9, 2015 American University Washington, DC April 25, 2015 Event in the works! Montreal, Canada May 22, 2015 Event in the works! Dublin, Ireland How and Why the State Thrives on Fear Connor Boyack is the author of Feardom: How Politicians   David Stockman: The Keynesian Toolbox Is Empty The Keynesians have had their way, and the result is sluggishness, even retrogression, and a global bubble economy. David Stockman brings sanity to it all.   Income Inequality: Non-Solutions to a Non-Problem Nineteen ways income redistribution harms society.   The International Man on How, Where, and Why to Diversify It's not just for the rich -- the whys and hows of spreading your income streams, employment, digital presence, and more across the world!   Maximize Your Results, Minimize Your Time: Five Tips for Learning Liberty In this episode Tom talks about how to learn as much about liberty -- history, economics, philosophy -- as you can with the least expenditure of time.   Anarchy, History, Homeschooling, and More Tom talks to Jeff Berwick about history, education, homeschooling, how to win people over, and more.   Tom on the African-American Conservatives Show Tom discusses a variety of issues as a guest on African-American Conservatives.   If you haven't already, please subscribe to the Tom Woods Show on iTunes or Stitcher so you don't miss an episode. I release a new episode every weekday!   Thanks for reading, Copyright © 2014 The Tom Woods Letter, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Fwd: Meet Your Classmates and Get an A+ Demo

I love technology. I love open source software. I love inviting folks to "come with me" and check this out. If you are a want-a-be techie, check out this demo on LiveCode, an open source software package that allows you to author computer programs and mobile apps.

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Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:34 AM
Subject: Meet Your Classmates and Get an A+ Demo

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