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Group title	Short Description	Group Member Count	Group Category
PBIS	Positive behavior intervention support (PBIS) is a proactive, comprehensive, systemic and individualized continuum of support designed to provide opportunities to all students, including students with disabilities, for achieving social and learning success, while preventing problem behaviors. (Sugai) If you're thinking about starting PBIS in your school or already have it implemented, let's learn from each other more innovative ways to make a great difference in our schools.	36	Public
Teacher Leaders	Whether leading a classroom, a department, a division or an entire school community, every teacher has numerous opportunities to influence the environment in which he or she works. In addition to knowing yourself and your inner workings extremely well, there are some particular skills required to be sensitive to the many differences among colleagues while remaining strongly connected to the mission of the school and your own personal and professional values.	14	Public
ThinkQuest Competition	The ThinkQuest Competition engages students to solve a problem using their technology, critical thinking, and communication skills. Test your skills against those of your peers globally! Compete in one of the following events as an individual or a member of a team: ThinkQuest Projects,Digital Media,Application Development Competition Opens: September 14, 2011 Entry Deadline: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 http://www.thinkquest.org/competition/	3	Public
School to Career	Are you working on your degree in education? Then this is the group for you! We're all about the path from higher education to a classroom of your own here.	7	Public
ILS Training	This private group is used for ILS training material.	1	Private
New Teachers	This group is intended for new teachers to converse and learn from each other.	22	Public
Global Learning Fellows	The NEA Foundation recognizes that in order for students to prepare for the global age, the educator must first be equipped with the knowledge, skills and disposition needed to teach in the global age. By participating in the NEA Foundation’s Pearson Foundation Global Learning Fellowship program, educators have an opportunity to lead the profession by acquiring the necessary skills to integrate global competence into their daily classroom instruction, advance pedagogy in their school/district, prepare students to thrive in the flattened global age, and thus contribute to the closing of the global achievement gap.	1	Private
Gifted and Enrichment	The Gifted and Enrichment Group is dedicated to sharing ideas and strategies from gifted education to use with higher-level learners as as well as those in the general education classroom. The group is moderated by Steve Haberlin, a teacher of gifted in Tampa, Florida. Haberlin has worked in both full-time gifted settings and resource positions, holds a gifted endorsement with the state of Florida, and is pursuing his masters in gifted education	72	Private
Teaching English as a Foreign Language	Teaching English as a Foreign Language is a challenging and exciting profession. Many professionals from all over the world are associated with this profession. Continuous development and growing demand of professionals are an addition to the sognificance of this field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language . With the advent of technology, shape of the modern instructions has taken a paradigm, now language teaching and learning are scientific fields where there is a need of professionals who have believe in E-Teaching and learning.	1	Private