NORTHEAST GEORGIA REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY

VISION

Northeast Georgia RESA strives to provide exemplary services by working collaboratively with schools and school systems to build and sustain high performing learning cultures that prepare students to be globally competitive.

MISSION

Northeast Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA) is a resource team that enhances student achievement through building capacity in staff to lead improvement in schools and school systems, providing Shared Services, and enabling systems to maximize fiscal resources.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Northeast Georgia RESA is ethically bound by and committed to:

• Working in alignment with Georgia School Standards and RESA Standards.
• Operating as a professional learning community using RESA team norms as a foundation for all interactions.
• Using data that are accurate, up-to-date, and research-based to plan strategically with stakeholders based on school and school system needs.
• Leveraging the expertise and talent of our staff in service to our schools and school systems.
• Monitoring to ensure the quality of RESA services through the implementation of a comprehensive assessment system.

Approximately 60 teachers, coaches, and administrators participated in a Learning Focused training session, Connecting Extending Thinking, with LFS instructor Sue Ellen Patterson.  Participants extended their thinking from an acquisition lesson about kudzu, an organism out of place, to using inductive reasoning and applying their understanding as they investigated fire ants.  They demonstrated their knowledge and conclusions through visual presentations of the generalizations such as skits, songs, and graphic representations.  Participants learned how to implement the #1 strategy for impacting student achievement, extending thinking, to move students to a higher level of thinking.

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