Friday
May072010
Full Committee Hearing - ESEA Reauthorization: Teachers and Leaders
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 2:45PM http://help.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=ddc7b57c-5056-9502-5d10-0a37ee595d1c
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 2:45PM Friday
Apr162010
Casey Elliott of thereNow gives interview and demonstration of IRIS Connect™ to popular French education technology blogger
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 11:16AM Saturday
Mar062010
Building a Better Teacher
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 2:48PM 
This is a very exciting article from The New York Times about Doug Lemov and his quest to make teachers better. A must read for anyone interested in teacher training!
By ELIZABETH GREEN, March 3, 2010
ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in some cases — for Lemov to tell them what to do to get better. There was no shortage of prescriptions at the time for how to cure the poor performance that plagued so many American schools. Proponents of No Child Left Behind saw standardized testing as a solution. President Bush also championed a billion-dollar program to encourage schools to adopt reading curriculums with an emphasis on phonics. Others argued for smaller classes or more parental involvement or more state financing.Lemov himself pushed for data-driven programs that would diagnose individual students’ strengths and weaknesses. But as he went from school to school that winter, he was getting the sinking feeling..
Click here for the full article.
Thursday
Feb112010
thereNow unveils the new IRIS at BETT in London; announces distribution partnership with Steljes
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 6:31PM I've been too busy to properly blog about my visit to London in January. Dr. Shuster and I were there at BETT (the British Education Training Technology) tradeshow. This is the world's largest education technology tradeshow.
At our lovely stand, we were not only providing demonstrations of IRIS Connect, but we were also thrilled to be unveiling the new IRIS hardware system and to be announcing our exclusive UK distribution partnership with Steljes.
We had a great time meeting the many, many education professionals that were anxious to learn more about IRIS Connect. We also had a wonderful time working with the amazing team at thereNow Europe and Steljes.
Andy Newell, Director of thereNow Europe, demonstrates IRIS Connect to an amazed audience
Introducing the new IRIS Connect hardware
Thursday
Feb112010
thereNow takes IRIS Connect to Shanghai, China
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 6:24PM I recently was invited by the UK's Teacher Development Agency (TDA) to visit Shanghai Normal University to explore the possibility of using IRIS Connect to enable the sharing of English and Mandarin language teaching expertise from the UK to China. We have engaged in a pilot project that should prove very interesting.
