January 2013 Blog Posts (116)

10 Famous People Who Were Expelled From School

10 Famous People Who Were Expelled From School

 

If you've got real talent and individual ambition, school might not be the best avenue to success for you. In fact, these businessmen, artists, scientists and actors were so bored with school that they were expelled, but they still made it to the…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 18, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

The Common Core Standards: Arguments Against and For - By Marc Tucker

The Common Core Standards: Arguments Against and For

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Added by Michael Keany on January 18, 2013 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Research Review: Teacher Expectations Matter By Liana Heitin

Research Review: Teacher Expectations Matter

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2013 at 3:08pm — No Comments

When a conference works (and doesn't) by Seth Goldin

When a conference works (and doesn't)

by Seth Goldin

When we get together with others, even at a weekly meeting, it either works, or it doesn't. For me, it works:

...If everything is on the line, if in any given moment, someone is going to say or do something that might just change everything. Something that happens in the moment and can't possibly be the same if you hear about it later. It…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2013 at 3:04pm — No Comments

The Pushes and Pulls of Education in 2013: Where is the Learning?

Among the many pushes and pulls that impact the exchange between teacher and student we find an ever-growing list of elements that demand our attention.   Today our senses are being battered by any number of requests for “techno fixes” and ways to gain an advantage, or ways that provide the promise of being able to take a shortcut to the success of everything from student achievement to the prevention of a possible physical assault on our students.  Test prep programs, online tutorials,…

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Added by David A. Gamberg on January 16, 2013 at 7:30pm — No Comments

The Mean Girl Dilemma By Peter DeWitt

The Mean Girl Dilemma

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Added by Michael Keany on January 16, 2013 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Weighing and Weighting the Evidence: the Measures of Effective Teaching Project by Barnett Barry

Weighing and Weighting the Evidence: the Measures of Effective Teaching Project

by Barnett Barry

The politics of teaching policy continues to produce contentiousness among reformers and researchers as well as administrators, union leaders, and practicing teachers themselves. In response, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested three years and $45 million in painstaking efforts to find the…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 16, 2013 at 10:19am — No Comments

The Principal Rule: Safety First by MATT LEVINSON

The Principal Rule: Safety First

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Added by Michael Keany on January 16, 2013 at 10:15am — No Comments

Charles Dickens: The Key to Character

January 15, 2013

Want to improve characterization in your own writing?  Want to teach your students how to analyze character? Then hurry to catch the New York Public Library exhibit,…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on January 15, 2013 at 5:47pm — No Comments

How to keep talented teachers from leaving By Eric Klinenberg and Caitlin Zaloom

How to keep…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 15, 2013 at 4:07pm — No Comments

Common Core Technological Standards: They Are the Tail, Not the Dog by Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway

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Common Core Technological Standards: They Are the Tail, Not the Dog

Up to now, test makers have been the dog--and education has been the tail. But the test makers are increasingly out of touch with students who use mobile devices for everything…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 15, 2013 at 12:42pm — No Comments

HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS LIKE SHERLOCK HOLMES BY: JENNIFER MILLER



HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS LIKE SHERLOCK HOLMES

A new book says you can train your brain to be a creative problem solver worthy of literature’s most famous sleuth.…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 15, 2013 at 9:48am — No Comments

When Teachers Refuse to Give a High-Stakes Test By Peter DeWitt

When Teachers Refuse to Give a High-Stakes Test

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2013 at 1:36pm — No Comments

Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment By W. James Popham

Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment

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Every educator knows what "a teachable moment" is. It's the brief period of time when events serendipitously conspire to teach students something that otherwise might be difficult for…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Are You Martha Stewart or Oprah Winfrey? by Thaler Pekar

Certainty Versus Confidence

Leaders of social change can benefit from making the distinction.

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Will Longer School Year Help Or Hurt US Students? by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Will Longer School Year Help Or Hurt US Students?

January 13, 201310:39 AM

Did your kids moan…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2013 at 1:22pm — No Comments

How To Integrate Blogging Into Math Classes by Felecia Young

How To Integrate Blogging Into Math Classes

by Felecia Young

blogging math class

I am so excited to incorporate writing in my math class during the…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2013 at 1:17pm — No Comments

The Pros and Cons of Computer Labs by Mary Beth Hertz

The Pros and Cons of Computer Labs

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2013 at 10:54am — No Comments

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