Paragon Federal Credit Union is proud to announce the formation of Paragon Education Services (“PES”).In partnership with The Madison Institute (“TMI”), a full service educational resource provider, PES will offer TMI’s premium educational services to K-12 educators and their schools across the state.

Our collective services will initially include professional development seminars at our comfortable training facility in Montvale, New Jersey, as well as in-district workshops. Please CLICK on the Professional Development Seminars tab above for our complete seminar schedule.

The Madison Institute Learning Academy

ATTENTION SCHOOL DISTRICTS: PLAN FOR YOUR 2008-2009 PD NEEDS NOW!

MINIMIZE THE CHALLANGES OF A-5 REQUIREMENTS!

BECOME A MEMBER IN THE MADISON INSTITUTE LEARNING ACADEMY
Convenient. Innovative. Affordable.

Developing a comprehensive Staff Professional Development Plan for any school is a challenge.

And now those challenges are compounded with the pre-approval process within the A-5 requirements. By becoming a member in the TMI Learning Academy, school administrators can receive a one-time board approval for membership that will simultaneously help satisfy a wide-array of your staff professional development needs each school year while minimizing the administrative burden of A-5.

Your membership will include in-district workshops, unlimited staff attendance at our seminars during the school year and so much more!

Openings for the 2009-2010 school year are still available.

Please Click Here to Learn More. You can also call or email Matt Walsh at The Madison Institute by calling 201.799.2318 or emailing mwalsh@tmieducation.com.

TMI Newsletter…Coming Soon

The TMI Newsletter will include relevant articles for today’s K-12 educator. Distributed in HTML format via email, our newsletter will also include articles contributed by you the educator, as well as articles from students reflecting on their own learning experiences.

If you are interested in contributing articles for future newsletters and want to learn more please email mwalsh@tmieducation.com so that we may contact you immediately.

New Jersey Performance Assessment Alliance (NJPAA)

State Mandates the Administration of Biology Prompt

NJPAA was created in 2003 by an alliance including the New Jersey Department of Education, NJPSA, NJASA and a coalition of corporations. The Madison Institute has been a lead consultant for NJPAA since its inception in 2003.

Initially started as a pilot program, the success of NJPAA, which to date has included almost 150 school districts and over 50,000 students state-wide, has prompted the state to mandate the administration of a biology prompt for the 2007-2008 school year.

Entering its fifth year, NJPAA was designed to develop, administer, and score valid and reliable performance based assessments that will complement traditional standardized tests in order to achieve the dual goals of:

• Ensuring accountability for the achievement of all students
• Providing educators with timely and meaningful information that can be used to address the educational needs of individual students.

To learn more please CLICK HERE  to visit the NJPAA website.