March 2013 Blog Posts (140)

Scheduling meetings made easy with doodle.com

Doodle.com has been up and running since 2007, but with the advancements of HTML5 and other browser technologies, web-hosted apps have been gaining in popularity. We’ve got Dropbox and …

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Added by Ryan Fisk on March 19, 2013 at 4:04pm — No Comments

Talent Isn't Fixed and Other Mindsets That Lead to Greatness - Interview with Carol Dweck by Jocelyn K. Glei

Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco

Talent Isn't Fixed and Other Mindsets That Lead to Greatness

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 11:23am — No Comments

20 of your songs that changed the world - Teachable Resource

20 of your songs that changed the world

BBC News Magazine

Clockwise from top left: The Specials' Free Nelson Mandela; Billie Holliday's Strange Fruit; David Hasselhoff; Joan Baez and Bob Dylan

Can a song really help change the world? A recent Magazine feature raised this question, and hundreds of readers responded.

Fifty years ago, Barbara, a French singer of Jewish descent, wrote the song Goettingen about a German city she loved. Many believe her song helped …

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 11:09am — No Comments

What Makes the Most Difference in Sustaining a Good Program?

What Makes the Most Difference in Sustaining a Good Program?

In this article in Exceptional Children, Kent McIntosh (University of Oregon), Sterett Mercer, Amanda Hume, Mary Turri, and Susanna Mathews (University of British Columbia), and Jennifer Frank (Pennsylvania State University) report on their study of the sustainability of the Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SPBS) program in 217 schools in 14 states. They analyzed four factors…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 10:01am — No Comments

Forget The Mission Statement. What’s Your Mission Question? by Warren Berger



Forget The Mission Statement. What’s Your Mission Question?

INNOVATION ENGINE

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Added by Michael Keany on March 19, 2013 at 8:41am — No Comments

Firing Bad Teachers Has Surprisingly Meager Effects By Kevin Drum

Mother Jones

Firing Bad Teachers Has Surprisingly Meager Effects

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Added by Michael Keany on March 18, 2013 at 10:56am — No Comments

The key to evaluating teachers: Ask kids what they think By Dylan Matthews

 


The key to evaluating teachers: Ask kids what they think

By Dylan Matthews , Updated: February 23, 2013

Thomas Kane is professor of education and economics at the Harvard…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 18, 2013 at 10:54am — No Comments

How Can Teachers Encourage and Assess Creativity?

How Can Teachers Encourage and Assess Creativity?

(Originally titled “Assessing Creativity”)

In this Educational Leadership article, Montana-based author/consultant Susan Brookhart asks which student’s work is more creative: asked to write an acrostic poem on a small poster, a girl writes a school spirit poem using the letters of the school’s name (S for “super”, N for “nice”, etc.) and draws a perfect replica of the school…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 18, 2013 at 9:49am — No Comments

Really? Test Prep for Homework! By Peter DeWitt

Really? Test Prep for Homework!

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Added by Michael Keany on March 17, 2013 at 4:04pm — 1 Comment

Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career by Glenn Llopis

Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 17, 2013 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Do Textbooks Still Have a Place in Schools? By Peter DeWitt

Do Textbooks Still Have a Place in Schools?

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Added by Michael Keany on March 16, 2013 at 9:25am — No Comments

The Importance of Play in Preparing for Standardized Testing by MATT LEVINSON

The Importance of Play in Preparing for Standardized Testing

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Added by Michael Keany on March 16, 2013 at 9:21am — No Comments

New York’s Education Deficit - NY Times Editorial

The New York Times


March 14, 2013

New York’s Education Deficit

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Added by Michael Keany on March 15, 2013 at 9:25am — No Comments

Sight-Words are a Nightmare for Children and Society

One of the most remarkable historical facts of the last 80 years is the persistence of a sinister and unsuccessful pedagogy known as Look-Say, Whole Word, Sight-Words, Whole Language, Balanced Literacy, High-Frequency Words, and a number of other confusing terms.

Whatever these things are called, they must be banished,…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on March 14, 2013 at 8:06pm — No Comments

The Hidden Lessons from Newtown: A Teaching Opportunity by MARK PHILLIPS

The Hidden Lessons from Newtown: A Teaching Opportunity

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Added by Michael Keany on March 14, 2013 at 4:42pm — No Comments

How Teachers Use Technology: The Latest Research by MARY BETH HERTZ

How Teachers Use Technology: The Latest Research

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Added by Michael Keany on March 14, 2013 at 4:40pm — No Comments

What Makes a Great Teacher - and Who Gets to Decide? by Andreas Schleicher

What Makes a Great Teacher - and Who Gets to Decide?…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 14, 2013 at 4:24pm — No Comments

What's Right with our Schools? by Justin Minkel

What's Right With Our Schools?

Guest blogging this week are members of the National Network of State Teachers of the Year…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 14, 2013 at 1:39pm — No Comments

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