Primary Grant Focus
Professional development and assessment experts at the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia aim to improve teacher implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by offering teachers a comprehensive online system of professional development resources.
Strategies for Supporting Common Core Success
The Network for Educator Effectiveness (NEE), developed and housed at the University of Missouri-Columbia, provides high-quality online teacher training and resources related to the instructional shifts required by the CCSS. NEE is the largest, university-based, K-12 internet-accessible network in the country. With more than 35,000 teachers in the system, it serves districts across the state. The NEE website provides high-quality online teacher training for all teachers to support professional development and student learning related to CCSS instructional shifts.
With BMGF funding the Network is:
- Adding a series of CCSS-focused online learning modules for mathematics and English language arts to an existing library. The first set of CCSS-related modules offered teachers basic information about standards-based academic content and instructional approaches. New modules delve deeper into this content.
- Providing to principals teacher progress data from the online modules, to strengthen principal understanding of: (1) How the CCSS might be integrated into existing curricula, and (2) how instructional practices could be adapted to meet these more rigorous standards.
General Information
The University of Missouri – Columbia College of Education
Columbia, MO 65211
Marc Doss, Regional Professional Development Center Director
Email: dossm@missouri.edu
Phone: (573) 882-0859
https://education.missouri.edu/
Term of Grant: August 2013 – June 2015
Grantee Initiative: Network for Educator Effectiveness: CCSS Learning Modules
Region: Missouri
- Subject Area: Literacy and Mathematics
- Education Levels: K-12