CBIA creates Web site for state educators

Proedresources.com offers best practices for improving math, science and language arts

CBIA has created a new Web site, www.proedresources.com, to help Connecticut educators find well-documented and successful strategies to improve student performance in math, science and language arts. The site also offers how-to advice and helps educators meet curriculum requirements in their districts, schools and classrooms under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The Web site is designed for superintendents, assistant superintendents, curriculum directors and teacher leaders. It provides quick and easy access to researched and successful educational resources from the mid-1990s to today.

“This is a wonderful new database of resources for Connecticut educators,” said Lauren Weisberg Kaufman, CBIA vice president and executive director of the association’s Education Foundation. “Proedresources.com is an easily accessible and user-friendly site that offers educators an opportunity to identify, in one place, best practices, and to engage students in proven and well-documented learning experiences,” she says.

Proedresources.com is funded by the state Department of Education and uses only nationally recognized resources from Web sites funded by state departments of education, universities or colleges, independent research or philanthropic organizations, and national professional associations. It does not include any commercial or commercially funded sites.

CBIA is the business and industry partner for the statewide implementation of No Child Left Behind, and is creating opportunities for businesses and schools to work together for the betterment of students — for example, through Connecticut State Scholars, a program that encourages students to take a challenging course of study in high school.

For more information on best practices and how CBIA and businesses are working with schools to help students meet state education goals, visit www.cbia.com/ed/nclb.