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"Good teaching is unquestionably the thing that matters most.  Studies show students with effective teachers showed 6 times greater gains than those with the least effective teachers, regardless of the students' background."         -Kati Haycock, Iowa FINE Conference, Nov. 1, 2002

 Professional Development Planning
 Coming Events, Results-based Staff Development Plans and templates, PD calendars templates, handouts from workshops. links to PD sites

 Leadership & Learning Communities
 McREL's Balanced leadership research study and Purposeful Community, Connections to DuFour's professional Learning Community, techniques for group norms, Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning, protocols to support teacher reflection,

 Assessment & Analysis 
STARS Consortium Project Support, Mastery Levels, Evaluate your assessment system, NWEA, DIBELS, Portfolios, Assessment Plans, Student-led Conferences

Monitoring Opportunity to Learn Forms
Forms include columns to record when each standard is taught and assessed. Available for Reading , Math, Science and Social Studies

 Curriculum & Content Expertise
plans for teaching and assessing standards, regional curricula, content standards

 School Improvement
Information and tools for school improvement

 Production & Professional Library
SOAR maintains a professional library with current theory and research as well as curriculum support and recent textbooks.  Materials are available for two week check out.  Teacher training videos and numerous trunks of realia in learning kits developed by SOAR are available for checkout through Instructional Materials/Media services. Most production materials are available for checkout.