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 * 1) **“How to support Ongoing Learning, Mentor Forums” ** – NTC
 * How to support Ongoing Learning: Mentor Forums, published September, 2009.
 * [[file:1, How to Support Ongoing Learning; Mentor Forums (NTC practice brief).pdf]]
 * 1) **“Coaching heavy coaching light revisited” ** – Learning Froward
 * In the original article, Killion describes two kinds of coaching -- coaching heavy and coaching light -- and the differences they make to helping teachers improve the quality of instruction and student learning. Killion also provides a table with some common beliefs coaches hold and their potential side effects for teachers and students. In the attached PDF, she continue an exploration of coaching heavy and coaching light as Joellen Killion asserts that substantive conversations do more for establishing strong coaching relationships than coaching light.
 * [[file:2, coaching heavy coaching light revisited(learning forward).pdf]]
 * 1) **“****The Hows and Whys of Peer Mentoring”** and **“Teachers As Learners: How Peer Mentoring Can Improve Teaching”** – Rethinking Schools
 * **Practical nuts-and-bolts information on how the authors structured and maintained a peer mentoring program in their school.**
 * **Two teachers describe how evaluations by their fellow teachers gave them a valuable new perspective on their teaching practice.**
 * [[file:3, Pages from Keeping Teachers Report (Rethinking schools).pdf]]
 * 1) **“Formative assessment tools Matrix” ** - Dane County New Teacher Project
 * This document was shared and created by our colleagues from the Dane County New Teacher Project ([|www.ntc.wi.org]).
 * 1) "CCSS to Curriculum five big ideas" - McTighe & Wiggins
 * [[file:From CCSS to Curriculum five big ideas (mctighe & wiggins).pdf]]
 * 1) <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875);">**Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards"**- ASCD
 * [[file:Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards.pdf]]
 * [[file:Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core State Standards.pdf]]