April 2015 Blog Posts (65)

On the Atlanta Testing Scandal and Coaching By Elena Aguilar

On the Atlanta Testing Scandal and Coaching

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Added by Michael Keany on April 15, 2015 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Leaders' Integrity Can Grow One Decision At a Time

Leaders often play the role of investigator, and are always playing the role of decision maker. Whether in an elementary school or a secondary school, children break rules or behave in unkind ways that require intervention. Often if student's discipline has been raised to the level of a hearing, or a faculty or staff member has made a misstep, central office leaders are called to investigate. Listening deeply, asking the right questions, and remaining clear about the influence of bias are…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on April 14, 2015 at 7:08am — No Comments

Social Media in Schools: Why bother? by Christopher Wooleyhand

I am excited to present at the Maryland Association of Elementary School Principals conference later this month. The focus of my session is on how social media can be used to enhance adult and student learning. If you’re a social media regular, this is a message that you are more than likely familiar with. However, we still have a large number of educators and leaders who are hesitant to capitalize on social media for the benefit of their schools.





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Added by Debbie Wooleyhand on April 12, 2015 at 6:49pm — No Comments

The Declaration of Independence from Excessive Test Preparation - Want to Sign? by Steve Peha and Justin Baeder

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TEACHING THAT MAKES SENSE…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 1:24pm — No Comments

MUSIC: Now Don't Get Mad at Me... by Steve Peha

MUSIC: Now Don't Get Mad at Me...

by Steve Peha

TEACHING THAT MAKES SENSE

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I don’t talk much about music in this newsletter and I really should, if for no other reason than I loved it in high school, was a music major in college for a while, and had a short but interesting…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 1:16pm — No Comments

iPads < Teachers By Peg Tyre

iPads < Teachers

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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 1:10pm — No Comments

Race to the Top: A Metaphor Reconsidered by Arnold Dodge

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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 12:56pm — No Comments

Policy Leaders: Stop Blaming Educators and Help Us Change the System Instead

Creating chaos is not the path to a reinvented ...or even stronger...educational system. It is not fathomable to consider the mess that will be caused by the requirement for school leaders to leave their buildings to provide "objective" observations in other buildings and districts. Who believes that changing the location makes one a better judge of effective teaching? Are leaders that malleable or under the thumb of the local union? Hardly. And, by the way, what about the important…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on April 12, 2015 at 7:38am — No Comments

What Is Fantasy Football?

If you are new to fantasy football then you don’t have to panic or worry about it at all. We are here to tell you some excellent steps that how can you play the fantasy football. But, before we go on to more information about the fantasy football let’s take a look on the fact that what is the fantasy football. Well, fantasy football is a game where you can become the owner, general manager and coach of the team which includes NFL players. You will earn the points on the statistical…

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Added by Kizzy Tucker on April 12, 2015 at 7:30am — No Comments

Atlanta cheats, because kids can't read

 Is anyone following the  Atlanta cheating scandal?  It’s the biggest in the nation’s history. Last week  a dozen people were sentenced to jail. Two participants have so far died.

Here for me is the really interesting part. You can read a long article in the New York Times (that being the preeminent symbol of media that no longer does investigative journalism) and not have any idea what actually happened.

 When you hear people talk about…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on April 9, 2015 at 8:31pm — No Comments

Are Legislatures Identifying the Problem or Imposing Biased Solutions?

The concern over the education system in the United States has taken off with a life of its own.  Can anyone identify what is wrong anymore?  Is it teacher performance, outdated curriculum, lack of staff, supplies, and technology, underperforming pre-service programs, limited resources, or ineffective leadership? Is it a lack of school design to meet the needs of 21st century learners? Is it our lack of capacity or will to educationally overcome the effects of poverty? Is it the federal…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on April 9, 2015 at 6:59am — No Comments

Leaders Need the Wisdom of Owls

It is not uncommon when focusing on good communication to think of it as an exchange...something that comes from us to others or others to us.  Communication is related to how things are said, what medium is used...verbal or written words, personally or in a group, memo, email, letter, webpage, blog, article, phone call and so on. Word choice, tone, pacing, and intention are aspects of communication. But, we contend the best attribute for a school leader to develop as a good…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on April 7, 2015 at 6:52am — No Comments

High Noon: The Showdown Over High-Stakes Testing by Rick Stiggins via Peter DeWitt

High Noon: The Showdown Over High-Stakes Testing

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Added by Michael Keany on April 6, 2015 at 8:52am — No Comments

Latest HPE0-J76 Exam Dumps with VCE PDF and Practice test

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Understanding the nature of HPE0-J76 Designing HPE Enterprise Storage Solutions

The HP Designing HPE Enterprise Storage Solutions is a well-known HP certification exam, which is associated with  numerous promising job roles. The HP HPE0-J76 questions has designed the core areas of HP Designing HPE Enterprise Storage Solutions in a technical way and in the wake of advanced HP…

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Added by ethel zylstra on April 4, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

The new new noncognitive skills by Kessington A. Bennett Waldorf IV (A Late April Fools Article)

The new new noncognitive skills

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Added by Michael Keany on April 4, 2015 at 8:37am — No Comments

Helping Struggling Schools by Robert Slavin

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Added by Michael Keany on April 4, 2015 at 8:31am — No Comments

A metric is only useful as a metric when it isn't used as a metric by Eduardo Porter

A metric is only useful as a metric when it isn't used as a metric

What will happen when teachers are systematically rewarded or punished based on standardized tests? asks Eduardo Porter in The New York Times. The design of any system must be carefully thought through to avoid sending incentives astray, since people -- wittingly or unwittingly -- goose numbers once a measure is set up. The phenomenon is known as Goodhart's Law, though one economist calls it…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 3, 2015 at 4:25pm — No Comments

Coming soon: A larger gap in achievement scores by Tara García Mathewson

Coming soon: A larger gap in achievement scores

The Common Core was rolled out with promises of closing learning and achievement gaps, but in the short term, gaps will almost certainly grow wider, writes Tara García Mathewson for The Hechinger Report. The gap in scores between disadvantaged students and peers has already ballooned in Illinois, New York, and Kentucky, all of which launched early versions of aligned exams. In Illinois, the achievement gap…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 3, 2015 at 4:21pm — No Comments

The Common Core: promises, promises by Emmanuel Felton

The Common Core: promises, promises

In 2010, plans for Common Core-aligned tests were introduced with fanfare and promises they'd end dumbed-down, multiple-choice tests and weeks of mindless prepping, writes Emmanuel Felton for McClatchy. They'd bring coherence to a mishmash of state exams and allow states for the first time to compare local students to peers elsewhere. Their online format would make testing more efficient, accurate, and relevant to the…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 3, 2015 at 4:20pm — No Comments

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