February 2013 Blog Posts (123)

Overproducing Teachers? Stop It! By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers

Overproducing Teachers? Stop It!

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Added by Michael Keany on February 7, 2013 at 12:11pm — No Comments

Why Educators' Wages Must Be Revamped Now By Eric A. Hanushek

Why Educators' Wages Must Be Revamped Now

Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.

It is no secret that some school districts spend their money better than others. One can easily find groups of districts with the same student demographics and with the same…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 7, 2013 at 11:57am — No Comments

Four Traps for Leaders to Avoid By Rick Hess

Four Traps for Leaders to Avoid

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Added by Michael Keany on February 7, 2013 at 9:01am — No Comments

Requiem for Catholic Schools? By Walt Gardner

Requiem for Catholic Schools?

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Added by Michael Keany on February 7, 2013 at 9:01am — No Comments

Don't Run Away From Teaching Pop Culture By Marc D. Hauser

Don't Run Away From Teaching Pop Culture

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Check out the music children listen to, and you will hear rap and hip-hop songs about sex, violence, women as objects, and domination. Sometimes the questionable language is explicit…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2013 at 4:07pm — No Comments

How Are You Connecting Your Students with the World? Skype in the Classroom by Suzie Boss

How Are You Connecting Your Students with the World? Skype in the Classroom

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2013 at 4:03pm — No Comments

Teachers Need Help, Too by David McKay Wilson

Measuring the Quality of Math Instruction

In this sidebar to a longer Ed. article on teaching Common Core math, David McKay Wilson reports on the Mathematical Quality of Instruction tool (MQI) for evaluating K-8 mathematics teaching. Developed by Heather Hill at the University of Michigan and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, the MQI is designed to give observers a better lens and get teachers self-assessing and bringing more mathematical…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm — No Comments

Faculty Development: Critical steps prior to any professional development. Making sure all of the pieces of the puzzle are in place. By Don Sternberg, Ed.D.

Faculty Development: Critical steps prior to any professional development. Making sure all of the pieces of the puzzle are in place.

By Don Sternberg, Ed.D.



As a principal, you cannot be everywhere at one time. This may seem as the antithesis of a job description of a principal, as our presence throughout our school and into each crevice requiring some degree of leadership is important. Trying to be…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2013 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Equipping Students with a Baloney-Detection Kit in the Information Age by J. Robinson

Equipping Students with a Baloney-Detection Kit in the Information Age

by J. Robinson in The 21st Century Principal…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 4, 2013 at 3:45pm — No Comments

NAIS Challenge 20/20

Next week Peterson Schools will be kicking off the National Association of Independent Schools' Challenge 20/20 Project with our partner, Athens Academy, in the USA:

http://www.nais.org/Articles/Pages/Challenge-20-20.aspx

This will mark the first time (that I know of) that Challenge 20/20 participants will meet and collaborate in a 3D Virtual Learning Environment. Our learners will work…

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Added by David W. Deeds on February 4, 2013 at 10:41am — No Comments

Digital Learning Day - Wednesday, February 6, 2013

 Digital Learning Day offers an opportunity to reflect on and create plans for your school's use, and your leadership of 21st Century skills.  For more thoughts and ideas - Leadership360's blog post on EdWeek

Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on February 3, 2013 at 9:24am — No Comments

Girls and Science: A Dream Deferred by AINISSA RAMIREZ

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Added by Michael Keany on February 2, 2013 at 9:42am — No Comments

Poverty and Self-Control

Excerpt from Larry Ferlazzo's blog

The research paper, Poverty and Self Control, takes issue with a common belief that many low-income people are poor because they don’t have traits like self-control. Instead, it finds that that…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 2, 2013 at 9:31am — No Comments

Character education is not enough to help poor kids by Mike Rose

Character education is not enough to help…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 2, 2013 at 9:23am — No Comments

Friday Film Clip

February 1, 2012
In honor of Super Bowl weekend, this Friday Film Clip is from Brian's Song.  For football-themed books to motivate some of your reluctant readers, click…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on February 1, 2013 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Hiding the Aspirin in the Applesauce. . .by Bill Ferriter

Hiding the Aspirin in the Applesauce. . .

By Bill Ferriter

The Tempered Radical

207019732_804fd99103 Ask anyone who has ever worked in schools and they'll tell you that middle schoolers are an interesting breed.  Trapped in developmental limbo and stumbling through three years…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 1, 2013 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Introducing our Newest Cause: #sugarkills by Bill Ferriter

Introducing our Newest Cause: #sugarkills

by Bill Ferriter

The Tempered Radical

One of the questions that I'm asked time and time again is, "How can teachers use technology to motivate our students?"

And if you've spent any time reading Radical posts, you probably know my answer already:  Technology DOESN'T motivate students.  …

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Added by Michael Keany on February 1, 2013 at 4:49pm — No Comments

A Peaceful, Loving, and Productive Start of Class By David Ginsburg

A Peaceful, Loving, and Productive Start of Class

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Added by Michael Keany on February 1, 2013 at 4:47pm — No Comments

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