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		<title>Online Social Networking Breaking the Culture of Professional Isolation:  The World&#8217;s Largest English Department</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[-Teacher Magazine; October 1, 2009
This spring, 10 days after completing her bachelor&#8217;s degree in secondary English education from the University of Tampa, Laura Abercrombie was hired to teach 8th grade language arts. Anxious about what might be awaiting her in the fall, Abercrombie did what any self-respecting digital native would do: She took her troubles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=119&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TLINC Mentor quoted in Commercial Appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TLINC Mentor Denise Winsor was quoted in a story in the August 26th Commercial Appeal.
Rule ends retention in Pre-K through 3rd grade
By Jane Roberts (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
As Memphis City Schools administrators install a new no-flunk policy for children in the earliest grades, community criticism is ringing in their ears.
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		<title>Opinion: Finding the Elusive Best Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-Orlando Sentinel; August 24, 2009

As another school year starts, and students get to know their new teachers, two major national studies remind us that the single most important factor in a student&#8217;s achievement is the quality of his or her teacher. Reports by The National Council on Teacher Quality (&#8220;Increasing the Odds,&#8221; 2005) and The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=113&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memphis TLINC 09-10: Ready, Set, Go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School is back in session and it looks like it will be a great year for the Memphis TLINC Project.
-Fall semester, 23 mentors will be serving over 120 student teachers.
-Project Manager, Carmen Weaver, will be presenting at two conferences.
-Three articles for publication are being written.
-Many College of Education Faculty will be using TLINC with their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=111&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New NCTAF Report &#8211; Learning Teams: Creating What&#8217;s Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – April 7, 2009 – The nation stands to lose half of its teachers to retirement over the next decade, but states and districts have an opportunity to avert the crisis, according to a report released today by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF). The report – Learning Teams: Creating What’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=107&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics are staggering. More than half our nation&#8217;s teaching workforce is quickly approaching retirement age. Will this be a crisis or an opportunity?
Watch the video: Did you know?
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		<title>NCTAF Announces New Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the “Agricultural Era” and the “Industrial Age” were known for their dominant modes of work, the 21st Century is the Learning Age. Learning is no longer prepararion for the job, it is the job.
We are all constructing this new learning culture, in which we invent and reinvent work, create and recreate communities, master [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=98&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Teachers Learn: Moving Beyond Talk</title>
		<link>http://tlinc.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/how-teachers-learn-moving-beyond-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-Educational Leadership; February, 2009


*Article featured in NCTAF&#8217;s Weekly News Digest

Professional learning communities are a growing forum for teacher learning. The opportunity to share ideas and reflect on teaching practice makes learning communities attractive. But it&#8217;s easy for learning communities to become stalled at the stage of collegial discussions about improving teaching practice. What spurs communities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=94&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NCTAF, Pearson Partner to Launch Pioneering OnlineCommunities for New Teachers </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint  Venture to Expand on Successful Pilot Programs that Foster
Teacher Retention and Support
Washington, D.C. and Boston – March 2, 2009 – The National Commission on Teaching and
Amer ica’s Future (NCTAF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit, advocacy  group dedicated to improving  teaching quality, and leading education company Pearson announced t oday their  exclusive partnership to  launch a new  online learning community  designed t o support teacher  candidates and  novice teachers with a broad network  of  mentors and experienced talent, and to connect  colleges of education  with their K­12 district partners.
This important partnership is designed to build on NCTAF’s Teachers Learning  in Networked
Communities (TLINC) program through which the schools of  education at the University  of Memphis, the  University of Colorado Denver and the University of Washington implement ed a pilot version of an online  learning community.  Now, Pearson and NCTAF will expand the  scope and capacity of this program by researching with the  initial partner sites  what’s worked  and what could be improved, adding additional partner institutions, and building together a new,  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=89&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martindale to Present at SITE 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memphis TLINC Project Director, Dr. Trey Martindale, is traveling to the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education annual conference. This year&#8217;s conference will be held March 2 through 6 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dr. Martindale will join NCTAF&#8217;s Hanna Doerr to present Teachers Learning In Networked Communities: Online Teacher Induction, Support, and Collaboration.
For more information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlinc.wordpress.com&blog=4734357&post=86&subd=tlinc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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