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Leading Edge Certification is a fully online course in pedagogy and tools for online teaching. The course is designed around iNACOL's National Standards for Quality Online Teaching, fulfilling the needs of individual educators to move their curriculum online while creating a meaningful, engaging environment. Content includes building community, moderating discussions, supporting diverse learners, and implementing frequent formative assessments.

Leading Edge is an internationally recognized certification program, created collaboratively by many stakeholder groups and managed by an alliance of these groups. The Leading Edge Alliance, a group of nonprofits, universities and governmental bodies, have developed a certification program for K-12 teachers.

State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Offers A Blueprint for Great Schools Report Puts Focus on Effective Teaching, Student Support, 21st Century Learning

SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today unveiled A Blueprint for Great Schools, a report by his 59-member Transition Advisory Team calling for California to foster excellence in teaching, provide community support for families, and retool schools to make more students competitive in college and the workforce. "We are setting our sights high because our students deserve it," said Torlakson. "As our Blueprint for Great Schools shows, there's no substitute for investing in our children's education. But we owe our students much more than just money. We also owe them our leadership, our best thinking—and above all—our very best people."

Press release: http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr11/yr11rel53.asp

Report:  http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/bp/bpcontents.asp