The Baltic and Black Sea Circle Consortium for educational research (BBCC) was established at the beginning of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005). BBCC has obtained its name in the "Third International Conference Sustainable Development, Culture, Education, in the University of Vechta" (Germany, 2005). The paper…

Effective educational leadership at the principal level positively correlates with quality classroom teachers and improved student achievement (Portin et al., 2009). It also fosters a caring, supportive and inter-connected environment that inspires students and engages teachers (Seashore et al., 2010). Preparing competent, effective, and caring…

The Renaissance was a cultural movement initiated in Florence, Italy, during the late Middle Ages and later spread to the rest of Europe, focusing on the improvement of various disciplines through a revival of ideas from antiquity. The influence of the Renaissance movement affected art, literature, philosophy, politics, science, religion, and…

This paper describes a social partnership model based on the living lab concept to promote the professional development of educators through formal and informal capacity-building initiatives. The aim is to have a broader impact on society through community outreach educational initiatives. A Living Lab is an environment for user-centered…

The design and early implementation of a major national design initiative in England, the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL), is described in this paper. This novel hybrid master's degree seeks to span the traditional academic-practitioner divide, reconstitute the theory-practice dynamic as reciprocal and co-construct an authentic signature…

Special education administrators must be prepared for their leadership roles in inclusive, culturally diverse, standards-based school settings. These challenges create the need for new skills, required for effective special education leaders in the 21st century. In this article, the authors examine the standards used to prepare special education…

This document discusses the work of a consortium of interested producers and users of instructional materials, who worked on a project aimed at producing short films dealing with small group teaching, and developing general guidelines for the production and evaluation of visual stimulus material which would be suitable for staff development…

Describes activities of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). Created in 1973, MECC provides instructional services, develops computer software, and is actively involved in training educators. Other organizations (institutional members) may pay a fixed fee to obtain annual right to duplicate and/or distribute MECC products to…

In February 2001, national family and consumer sciences (FCS) leaders, state department of education supervisors, and FCS education providers from 16 higher education institutions representing every region of the U.S. met to establish a national support system and clearinghouse for FCS teacher preparation. Their goal was to aid existing FCS…

The Texas Network for Preparing School Based Teacher Educators (SBTEs) is a statewide cooperative effort of forty teacher centers, governed by an advisory board of fourteen members, and devoted to the improvement of instruction in elementary and secondary schools through improved practice of SBTEs. The SBTE is defined as being a professional…

An internship/residency model of teacher education was developed by the California Consortium on the Beginning Years of Teaching. A successful initiation of the model and problems that prevented implementation elsewhere are described. (DF)

In the first 24 months of the project, KP-Lab members were highly dedicated to dissemination and were engaged in various dissemination activities that contributed to the prime objective of the KP-Lab dissemination efforts which is "to make the project widely known to a variety of prospective users and, at a later stage, to promote the…

The Governing Board of the Southern Consortium of Black Colleges for Teacher Education determined that its future depended upon clarification and reaffirmation of its mission. As a result, a workshop was arranged to assist the Governing Board in (1) determining its mission, (2) determining its three major program themes, and (3) establishing for…

Cooperative efforts of a research facility, university training programs and local public schools' speech services to hearing children that resulted in an experimental consortium of preservice and inservice education are described. A model for consortium development is discussed, as is the impact on personnel preparation and professional…

The Appalachian Model Teacher Consortium is a partnership involving Radford University, Wytheville Community College, and the Grayson County (Virginia) School System. Its purpose is to prepare highly qualified teachers for rural southwest Virginia. The model was developed in response to the growing teacher shortage facing school districts in rural…