Monday, November 01, 2010

Thursday Live in Elluminate: Steven Farr on Teach For America

Join me Thursday, November 4th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Steven Farr, Chief Knowledge Officer at Teach for America and the author of Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap.

Date: Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/115992

Steven Farr leads Teach For America's efforts to discern what distinguishes teachers whose students in low-income communities achieve dramatic academic growth. He joined staff as vice president of training and support in 2001 and has managed the research and development of a number of Teach For America's training texts. He has contributed to the development of the Teaching As Leadership framework and rubric, as well as Teach For America's online resources built around those ideas. Farr taught high school English and English as a second language as a part of the 1993 Teach For America corps in the Rio Grande Valley. Farr is a graduate of the University of Texas's Plan II Honors program and Yale Law School.

Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

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