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		<title>Tell us your thoughts on white papers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riverside&#8217;s Research and Measurement Services team is considering the development of a series of white papers on topics related to educational assessment and measurement. The goal of the white papers is to inform interested audiences, in a general non-technical way, about current assessment issues and topics. They are interested in gathering your thoughts. In particular, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=117&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Smart Applications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our design team is busy working on developing a new foldering system. Users will be able to store their exams, etc., in folders. There will be various levels of permissions around folders. For example, users at a district level might create a &#8220;district&#8221; folder and use it as a central repository for exams used district-wide. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=91&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This is what we&#8217;ve been waiting for for 15 years&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a quote from Wired Magazine&#8216;s Chris Anderson as he showed off a prototype of what that publication might look like on Apple&#8217;s new iPad. Anderson made this comment during a recent TED conference. (By the way, if you aren&#8217;t familiar with TED, click here to learn more. Very cool stuff, but that&#8217;s the subject [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=82&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond reporting of typical student achievement data</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most of us think about the types of reporting done within systems like DataDirector and Edusoft, we typically think about the analysis of student achievement data. We expect these types of systems to show us patterns and trends in terms of how are students fared on a districtwide benchmark assessment, or perhaps a more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=78&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations Jeff Piontek &#8211; ISTE 2010 &#8220;Crowdsource&#8221; Keynote Speaker!</title>
		<link>http://rpcnextgen.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/congratulations-jeff-piontek-iste-2010-crowdsource-keynote-speaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riverside Publishing congratulates our own Customer Advisory Panel member Jeff Piontek for being named the ISTE 2010 &#8220;Crowdsource&#8221; Keynote Speaker. ISTE 2010 is formally known as the annual National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). This is the first year that ISTE has used &#8220;crowdsource&#8221; techniques to allow the audience to select its keynote speaker. You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=74&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are the right (or most used) Key Performance Indicators for you?</title>
		<link>http://rpcnextgen.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/what-are-the-right-or-most-used-key-performance-indicators-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Accountability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[critical success factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about dashboards and visual displays of data lately &#8211; and the concept of Key Performance Indicators (sometimes called Critical Success Factors). Click here for an interesting study on the use of KPIs in primary schools in the United Kingdom. I&#8217;m curious about how much KPIs are being used in schools today and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=71&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to Jeff Piontek!</title>
		<link>http://rpcnextgen.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/congratulations-to-jeff-piontek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riverside Publishing congratulates our Advisory Panel member Jeff Piontek for being a nominated finalist keynote speaker candidate for ISTE 2010 in Denver. Check out this link to read all the nice things people are saying in support of Jeff&#8217;s nomination. If you are eligible to vote, we encourage you to vote for Jeff! Posted in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=68&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the movement to a &#8220;common core&#8221; of standards good or bad?</title>
		<link>http://rpcnextgen.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/is-the-movement-to-a-common-core-of-standards-good-or-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race To The Top]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Education recently finished up a &#8220;listening tour&#8221; in a few key cities across the country, gathering public input on changes in assessment and accountability programs as part of the emerging Race To The Top (RttT) initiative. The federal government will release a block of grants to states (or consortia of states) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=65&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We have contest winners!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Barb Williams and Rikki Smith! They are the winners in our first blog contest. Each has won a $100 gift card from Amazon.com. Barb won by posting a comment about the use of student response systems in schools. Rikki won by becoming one of our new &#8220;followers&#8221; on Twitter. Barb and Rikki &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=63&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can we better involve students in active reflection of their own learning?</title>
		<link>http://rpcnextgen.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/how-can-we-better-involve-students-in-active-reflection-of-their-own-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data displays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goal-setting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the topics I have been thinking about a lot lately is how we can foster an environment that encourages students to be reflective about their own learning? When I was a classroom teacher, I tried various things to encourage my students to both set goals, and then monitor their own progress toward those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rpcnextgen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9318877&amp;post=60&amp;subd=rpcnextgen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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