January 2013 Blog Posts (116)

Informational Text - Hershey

January 14, 2013

Yesterday's New York Times Magazine presents a very different image of Milton S. Hershey, the chocolate king.
For years,…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on January 14, 2013 at 12:00am — No Comments

High School SeniorTrips/High School Wake Up Call to Seniors/Workmen Compensation in Administrator's Contract

Good Day Administrators,

I am a high school administrator with three questions:

 

1.  Do you still provide senior trips for…

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Added by Diane Barton on January 13, 2013 at 12:11pm — No Comments

Building a professional learning network on Twitter

For those who do not know, here are two basic Twitter principles: 1. If you only follow 10 people you will only see the general tweets of those 10 people. 2. If only 10 people follow you, only those 10 people will see your general tweets. Although some might argue that the right…

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Added by Tom Whitby on January 12, 2013 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Zetta.net Unveils 2013 Predictions for Online Backup and Recovery

Hardware Backup Appliances Move toward Extinction While New Generations of Cloud-based Backup and Recovery Technologies Are more Widely Adopted

Zetta.net today unveiled five predictions for the online backup and recovery market for 2013, all pointing to the broader adoption of online backup in more industries and the extinction of hardware backup appliances. From education and government, to SMBs and large enterprises with distributed office locations, online backup will…

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Added by Dave Avery on January 11, 2013 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Optimizing Tablet Use in the Classroom

Belkin Education Takes a Collaborative Approach to Enhance the Learning Environment (video - http://bit.ly/Zykixv)

As with each generation of students, education changes rapidly. Today's learning tools are much more than just paper and pen. New dynamic and collaborative technologies are increasingly adopted to support the learning environment and help students thrive. Yet, along with the advantages, teachers and IT administrators face…

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Added by DC Nelson on January 11, 2013 at 2:03pm — No Comments

You're a Principal...Now What? By Peter DeWitt

You're a Principal...Now What?

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Added by Michael Keany on January 11, 2013 at 1:55pm — No Comments

How Tough Kids Can Make Us Better Teachers by ALLEN MENDLER

How Tough Kids Can Make Us Better Teachers

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Added by Michael Keany on January 11, 2013 at 1:40pm — No Comments

What does the NHL have to do with the NYS Testing program?

For those who are not hockey fans, players in the National Hockey League (NHL) have been on strike thus far this season.   A fourth grade teacher casually asked his class, “When does the NHL start?”  A student gleefully replied, “next week.”  This prompted another student to moan and groan, “oh no, not another test.”

 

At first blush this appears to be an innocent and seemingly humorous exchange.  It does, however, belie a more insidious reality.  It reveals what appears to be…

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Added by David A. Gamberg on January 11, 2013 at 11:24am — No Comments

When Children Start School Behind, They Stay Behind by Katey Comerford

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Added by Michael Keany on January 11, 2013 at 8:22am — No Comments

Measures of Effective Teaching: Final Reports By Amber Winkler and Daniela Fairchild

Measures of Effective Teaching: Final Reports

By Amber Winkler and Daniela Fairchild

Education Gadfly

After three years, $45 million, and a staggering amount of video content, the Gates Foundation has released the third and final set of reports on its ambitious Measurements in Effective Teaching (MET) project (the first two iterations are reviewed …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2013 at 9:28pm — No Comments

Does a Double Dose of Algebra Help High-School Students?

Does a Double Dose of Algebra Help High-School Students?

In this Education Next article, Kalena Cortes (Texas A&M University), Joshua Goodman (Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government), and Takako Nomi (St. Louis University) report on a follow-up study of 11,507 students who took a “double dose” of algebra in Chicago high schools. Researchers found that increased time in algebra resulted in minimal gains for most students, and for a subset of…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2013 at 3:10pm — No Comments

Robert Marzano on Analyzing Complex Texts

Robert Marzano on Analyzing Complex Texts

(Originally titled “Analyzing Complex Texts”)

In this Educational Leadership column, author/consultant Robert Marzano says that when students analyze a text’s structure, they should be aware of two levels: (a) the overall organization – for example, rising action, climax, falling action in literature or, in non-fiction, presenting and supporting a claim; and (b) the underlying…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2013 at 3:08pm — No Comments

The principal-leader checklist By Steven Weber

 

Guest Blogger

The principal-leader checklist

By Steven Weber on January 8th, 2013 |…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2013 at 12:02pm — No Comments

7 Ways to Increase Student Ownership By Jennifer Barnett

7 Ways to Increase Student Ownership

Premium article access courtesy of TeacherMagazine.org.

We hear it all the time. "Students should take ownership of their school." But how do we make that happen?

Last spring, my colleagues and I began the process of…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2013 at 11:47am — No Comments

Why the Best Stay on Top in Latest Math and Science Tests by Jeffrey Mervis

Why the Best Stay on Top in Latest Math and Science Tests

on 12 December 2012
Science Insider

The latest results from the …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2013 at 11:34am — No Comments

Common Core Writing Job

January 10, 2012
Here is a link for an assessment writing job for someone experienced with CCSS.  Good luck!
Happy reading and…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on January 10, 2013 at 12:00am — No Comments

NY Governor Proposes Longer School Day/Year

January 9, 2012

Earlier today, Governor Cuomo propsed extending the school day/year.  Read about it here.

Happy reading,…

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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on January 9, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Coaching Towards Common Core State Standards By Elena Aguilar

Coaching Towards Common Core State Standards

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2013 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Does America Have a Violence Problem? By Peter DeWitt

Does America Have a Violence Problem?

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2013 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Petition to Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to End High Stakes Testing by Carol Corbett Burris



Petition to Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to End High Stakes Testing



We, the undersigned, support higher standards that are reasonably designed, implemented with care, and accompanied by the resources schools need to…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2013 at 10:01am — No Comments

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