Colleagues,

Please continue to post your questions for Judy Franks, Pam Blundell,  
Miriam Kroeger, Raye Nell Spillman and Karen Lisch Gianninoto. On  
Monday, Federico Salas will report on his experience in implementing  
adult education content standards in Texas. He will answer the same  
questions I asked the previous guests to address, and will perhaps  
add other information based on the questions we have asked the other  
guests as well as the new question below . This is the sixth  
presentation of seven from those in several states that have been  
implementing state content standards well.

Here's another question from a subscriber for all our guests:

“One way of preventing content standards from gathering dust on  
teachers’ shelves is to provide meaningful and sustained professional  
development that helps teachers understand and use standards to  
improve instruction and student performance.  What are some of the  
promising professional development best practices that help to bring  
standards to life in the classroom?  Can we convince reluctant  
teachers that standards-based education can have a value- added  
impact on their teaching and is not just added paperwork?”

For those who have joined the discussion late, and others, you will   
find the messages already posted in the discussion archives at

http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/specialtopics/2008/date.html


David J. Rosen
Special Topics Discussion Moderator
djrosen at comcast.net