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=DWW - THIS SITE IS NOT YET ACTIVE. WE ANTICIPATE FULL ACTIVATION DURING SEPTEMBER OF 2011. = ==Doing What Works (DWW) is a project that shares Promising Research-Based Practices Online. It is a Federally-funded project, sponsored by WestEd and the United States Department of Education. Many of the instructional resources linked to the DWW website are multi-media resources that are fantastic instructional tools.==

===- The Mid Iowa School Improvement Consortium (MISIC) has received funding to help organize DWW resources that align with the MISIC Curriculum Manager and MISIC Instructional Ladders. MISIC Educators have completed that alignment work, and the DWW resources are available to all MISIC Educators.===

Please take a look at these descriptions of the pages whose links are at the right:

 * **DWW & the MISIC Curricular Ladders** - The DWW resources are linked to the MISIC benchmarks in the MISIC Curricular Ladders. If you are part of a school that does NOT use the MISIC Curriculum Manager software, you can access the DWW resources via the Ladders.
 * **DWW & the MISIC Curriculum-Manager Software -** When you access certain windows in the units you create in Curriculum Manager, the DWW resources are already there for you. This link will further explain how the benchmarks align with the DWW resources, and how to access them.
 * **DWW Curricular Areas Aligned to MISIC Benchmarks -** This link will help explain which DWW resources are aligned to MISIC benchmarks. You may use ANY of the DWW resources, but only these areas have been aligned by MISIC representatives.
 * **DWW Professional Development Opportunities -** MISIC will offer a webinar during the fall of 2011 to help demonstrate the DWW resources. If you are not available for the live webinar, you may view the recording of that webinar. We will update this link to show you how to access both the live and the recorded webinar.
 * **Non-MISIC DWW Resources -** There are hundreds of research-based activities shared on the DWW website. While we have aligned as many as we could to the MISIC benchmarks, this link will point out a few you can access without that alignment. They are great resources, we just ran out of grant dollars to align everything.