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Young is an ordained minister , international businessman, sports
enthusiast, human rights activist, published author and former public
servant.
Taken together, these programs make Operation HOPE the national leader
in economic empowerment tools and services for the under-served in
America.
"Districts throughout the country currently mandate teacher
evaluations, but the real question is how leaders are helping teachers
to improve instruction. These diagnostics are available in General
Instruction, Literacy, Math , and Technology Integration formats,
allowing districts and schools to focus within a particular curricular
area.

Professional Development

At the core of the IQT system is a comprehensive professional
development program through which Co-nect provides training for
district and school leaders on how to implement the IQT diagnostics,
interpret data from the IQT management tools, and then address areas
of need.

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Center for
Non-Violent Social Change. OHI's HOPE Centers, a growing network of inner-city
banking centers, have created more than 800 new homeowners and small
business owners , more than $125 million in funded loans, and more than
$210 million in commitments for homeownership and small business loans
from their 250 bank and corporate partners.

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Research

The Evidence of Quality Teaching tool and other components of the
IQT are based on a large body of research connecting classroom-level
and building-level factors with student learning.

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involved in a rigorous validity and reliability study, conducted by
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About Co-nect

Co-nect, http://www.

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The four components of the IQT professional development
program are:

Using the tools to collect clean, valid data

Interpreting the results of the data to identify actionable
next steps

Using the IQT tools to coach and lead more effectively

Planning and implementing a subsequent professional
development program to directly address identified gaps.

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Management Tools

The IQT includes just-in-time reports and survey instruments
- management tools - designed to help instructional leaders interpret
data from the diagnostics to provide a complete snapshot of
instructional practice. The tools have been
field -tested over several years in more than 200 schools, from primary
to high school, in all parts of the country as key elements of
Co-nect's School Improvement(TM) program.

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Co-nect's Instructional Quality Toolkit(TM) Will Help Districts
and Schools Define and Monitor Instructional Quality, and Focus
Professional Development on Key Areas of Need

While all districts strive to deliver "high-quality instruction,"
the meaning of the term often varies significantly from one teacher to
the next, and one school to the next. Professional development is focused on building the
capacity of district and school leaders to implement the IQT system,
interpret instructional quality data, and target training to key areas
of need.

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About Andrew Young:

The Honorable Andrew Young is chairman of Atlanta-based GoodWorks
International , a specialty consulting group that provides strategic
services to corporations and governments operating in the global
economy. He was elected to three terms in the United States House of
Representatives from the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia, and,
in 1977, President Jimmy Carter named him Ambassador to the United
Nations. He served two terms as mayor of Atlanta and was co-chairman
of the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996.
In addition, Co-nect has aligned a series of online learning modules
to address gaps identified by the diagnostic tools.

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With widespread success in many major U. Furthermore, I strongly believe that the work of
Operation HOPE and other organizations like it are in fact continuing
the work of the civil rights movement, or as John Bryant would say,
the 'silver rights' movement.
A top aide to Martin Luther King Jr. To help address this need,
Co-nect , a leading provider of professional development solutions, is
introducing the Instructional Quality Toolkit(TM) (IQT), an integrated
set of research-based diagnostics, management tools, and training
resources that support administrators and teachers in their efforts to
define, measure, and continuously improve the quality of instruction
district-wide.

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The corrected release reads:

DAY OF HOPE: OPERATION HOPE KICKS OFF FOCUS ON ``FROM CIVIL RIGHTS
TO SILVER RIGHTS'' IN ATLANTA APRIL 12

Andrew Young, as Operation HOPE's National Spokesperson, Launches
Youth Financial Literacy Campaign "Banking on Our Future Across
America"

On Tuesday, April 12, in Atlanta, Operation HOPE will officially
launch a national financial literacy campaign -- Banking on Our Future
Across America, aimed at empowering the upcoming generations of inner
city youth.S. "We believe in our
youth and their future, and we have to give them more than love and
best wishes. Banking on Our Future is
about building hope, character and belief in oneself from the
perspective of something we all understand and relate to: money!"
On his decision to join the Operation HOPE movement as its
national spokesperson, Ambassador Young noted, "Operation HOPE's track
record of achieving economic empowerment for youth and their families
in low-wealth communities throughout the country, by educating them in
financial literacy, is extraordinary; and I have nothing but great
enthusiasm to now be playing a role in the growth of this top-tier
organization.

Co-nect Introduces System to Help Districts Improve Instructional Quality in Classrooms

Co-nect helps a district to outline a customized implementation
program, which includes designing an observation timeline and sampling
routine, survey administration , processing and interpretation of data. The tools helped our teachers see where they needed help
and we were able to focus professional development on just those
areas," said Dr.

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His awards
include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legion d'Honneur and more
than 45 honorary degrees from such universities as Yale, Notre Dame,
Emory and the University of Georgia. Through ongoing collaborations and
long -term partnerships with leading government, private sector, and
community interests, OHI works to bring self-sufficiency and a
sustained spirit of revitalization to America's inner-city
communities .

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. It generates automated online reports that pinpoint areas of
strength and need, and suggests strategies for improving instructional
performance .co-nect.

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" Launched in 1996, "Banking
on Our Future" has brought over 2,500 volunteer banker-teachers into
classrooms to teach young people practical money management skills
while inspiring them to take control of their financial futures.
Andrew Young is uniquely qualified to help us in this effort as a
businessman, statesman and humanitarian. He serves as a public affairs professor of policy studies at
Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. The IQT helps bring a collective focus on
those strategies and methods proven to drive results," said Andrew
Skoler, president and CEO of Co-nect. Steven Ross at the Center for Research in Educational Policy
(CREP), University of Memphis.

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Young also is a member of the boards of directors of numerous
businesses and organizations , including Delta Air Lines, Argus, Host
Marriott Corp. during the civil rights
movement, Young was involved in the movement's inception and served as
vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. OHI and its programs can be found online at
www. The tools are based on Co-nect's proprietary Evidence
of Quality Teaching rubric and set of research-based indicators of
instructional quality . The
program may include online modules, faculty study groups, and
lesson studies .

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He
presently serves on the board of the Martin Luther King Jr.

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CORRECTION.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Young as chairman of the
Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund, a $100 million privately
managed fund to provide equity to businesses in 11 countries. (OHI) is America's first nonprofit social
investment bank and a national provider of financial literacy and
economic empowerment programs. Co-nect
delivers training, tools, and resources to solve critical issues such
as whole school improvement, data-informed decision-making , technology
integration, and early reading failure.

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public/private partnerships, Operation HOPE has educated 143,000
children at more than 500 schools and community-based organizations
with its program "Banking on Our Future . King, myself, and a whole host of
others succeeded in integrating the lunch counter, and the public
building, but we failed to ultimately integrate the dollar, and this
is what HOPE is all about . OHI's Banking on Our
Future program has delivered financial literacy education and related
services to more than 139,000 children across the country.S. "Our goal is to get at the heart
of teacher quality . In a sense, the required district evaluation
serves as the summative review while the IQT serves as a formative
benchmark to continuously monitor and improve teaching practice."

Diagnostics

The IQT integrates three critical sources of data: the Evidence of
Quality Teaching(TM) classroom walkthrough and observation tool; the
Instructional Practices Survey(TM) of teacher perceptions; and the
Evidence of Quality Work(TM), a student work analysis tool. The data may be collected
three different ways - via scannable forms, online Web entries, or
PDAs.

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data-driven, K-12 professional development solutions focused on
improving the quality of classroom instruction district-wide.

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the only face-to-face economic literacy program taught year round in
public schools at no cost to schools . In
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Nelson Publishing.
The IQT combines data from classroom practice, teacher
perceptions, and student work to develop a profile of instructional
quality.

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He and Operation HOPE founder
and CEO, John Bryant , will start the "Day of HOPE" with an interactive
financial literacy teaching session with students at Atlanta's Jean
Childs Young Middle School. They will then host a 10:00 a. press
conference at the school to address the State of Financial Literacy in
America, and America's first "Silver Right," the right to financial
literacy and the continuation of Dr.
Young has published two books , "A Way Out of No Way" (Thomas
Nelson Publishing) and "An Easy Burden" (Harper Collins).

"Co-nect helped our district staff work together to define quality
instruction.

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The Honorable Andrew Young, Atlanta's former mayor and
acclaimed civil rights activist, is the national spokesperson for Los
Angeles-based Operation HOPE, a non-profit organization that has
pioneered national financial literacy and economic empowerment
programs in inner cities across the U.
"Operation HOPE is proud to have Andrew Young speak on our behalf
because we both know that education is the ultimate poverty
eradication tool of the 21st century," said Bryant. We must provide them with the knowledge they need to
prepare for the economic realities of life and personal finance.org, and
www. The various formats allow districts to use the collection method
best suited to the needs of individual schools , but still have uniform
reporting of instructional practices. Since 1992, Co-nect has been a
leader in improving instructional quality - implementing data-informed
solutions in over 33 states.

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Department of Homeland Security, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, and a network of private and community
partners, OHI's HOPE Coalition America has provided free financial
counseling and casework services to Americans affected by natural
disasters and national emergencies in 125 cities in 35 states to date.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
He served as president of the National Council of Churches in
2000-2001, and was appointed by the Secretary of Defense as a member
of the National Security Study Group.

About Operation HOPE:

Operation HOPE, Inc. District and school administrators can access
these reports online to quickly identify areas of need and target
professional development needs accordingly. Sterling Marshall, assistant superintendent of
Coatesville School District in Coatesville, Pa.

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