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Instructional Programs

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The critical element in Morgan County schools is the dedicated, knowledgeable and highly-professional teacher. No instructional program is effective without the effective teacher.

• Working on the Work
• Connected Mathematics
• Middle College

Georgia Performance Standards
www.georgiastandards.org
This link provides access to the Georgia Performance Standards, the new state curriculum standards being introduced and implemented through 2009. The teaching of these standards is required and what is tested on the state’s standardized assessments (e.g., Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, Georgia High School Graduation Tests)

Working on the Work
www.schlechtycenter.org
Morgan County Elementary School has been involved in an initiative which trains teachers to consider student engagement in the design of instructional units and lessons. As teachers at MCES become expert in designing lessons for maximum student engagement, they will begin to train other teachers in the system. MCES and Morgan County High School will begin a peer training and coaching initiative this year to introduce high school teachers to the principles of student engagement. This link provides access to additional information on Working on the Work and student engagement.

Southern Regional Education Board
www.sreb.org
SREB maintains regional databases for K-12 and higher education and publishes numerous reports annually. Key publications include the SREB Fact Book on Higher Education (biennial); the Challenge to Lead education goals series, Goals for Education: Challenge to Lead; and reports on High Schools That Work, middle grades education, technology for colleges and schools, educational accountability, children's readiness for school, and high school graduates’ readiness for college.

Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning
www.mcrel.org
This link provides access to a large research base which is significant in the state of Georgia. Senior scholar, Dr. Robert Marzano, has provided much of the research driving the Georgia Department of Education’s and Morgan County School’s efforts at reform and improvement. Morgan County School’s strategic plan and teacher evaluation instrument are rooted in Dr., Marzano’s research. Morgan County Middle School’s examination of effective instructional strategies is based on the research of Dr. Marzano.

Education Resources Information Center
www.eric.ed.gov
This link provides access to the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge. Research concerning strategies, programs, materials, policy, etc., can be found through searches of this database.