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Friday, April 29, 2011

Project to improve rural high schools in New England to be focus of free webinar May 11

A project from the Plymouth, Mass., School District and the Center for Secondary School Redesign will be the subject of the next Rural School Innovations Webinar from the Rural School and Community Trust. The project, the New England Network for Personalization and Performance (NETWORK), "envisions a redesigned rural high school where learning happens anytime, anyplace, and where students demonstrate their learning through complex, rigorous performance assessments," RSCT says in a news release. The free webinar is scheduled for May 11.

NETWORK "builds on very innovative work that has been accomplished in a number of rural schools in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont that have implemented performance-based initiatives," RSCT writes. Three representatives of rural New Hampshire school districts will speak during the webinar: Chris Geraghty, a teacher at Kearsarge High School; Steve Beals, principal at Laconia High School; and John Freeman, a superintendent from Pittsfield, N. H. You can register for the event here.

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