May 2013 Blog Posts (153)

An Antidote to the Assault on Our Senses

As the ongoing assault to our senses in the form of the overused measurement instruments known as high stakes standardized tests continues unabated, our school district prepares to engage stakeholders from nearby schools in a gathering of staff and students to celebrate the wisdom of using a simple way to observe powerful learning—through and in a school garden.  Here is what visitors can expect:

 

  • See the curiosity of young minds gathering on the fertile ground that can…
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Added by David A. Gamberg on May 2, 2013 at 12:37pm — No Comments

A simple exercise that works wonders: affirm your values by Annie Murphy Paul

A simple exercise that works wonders: affirm your values
Life is full of…
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Added by Michael Keany on May 2, 2013 at 8:50am — No Comments

Saying No to Online Learning? Hardly By Peter Gow

Saying No to Online Learning? Hardly

Luddites and…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 2, 2013 at 8:38am — No Comments

Overcoming Four Barriers to Evidence-Based Education By Robert E. Slavin

Overcoming Four Barriers to Evidence-Based Education

Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.

Imagine if we used evidence to guide everything we do and teach in our nation’s neediest schools.

As part of this vision, educators would constantly look at their…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 2, 2013 at 8:36am — No Comments

Solving the 'Boy Crisis' in Schools by Michael Kimmel

Michael Kimmel

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Added by Michael Keany on May 2, 2013 at 8:33am — No Comments

What Fuels Your Fire? First-Year Teacher in China Shares By Jessica Shyu

What Fuels Your Fire? First-Year Teacher in China Shares

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Added by Michael Keany on May 2, 2013 at 8:16am — No Comments

The 'Monster' at the End of the Common Core By Laura Thomas

The 'Monster' at the End of the Common Core

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I'm a progressive. A dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore constructivist. I believe that most decisions about education should be made by the people closest to the classrooms—by the…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 2, 2013 at 8:07am — No Comments

Author Visit and Book Signing

May 2, 2013
 
Tonight at Book Revue in Huntington, you can see chef, Lidia Bastianich as she launches her new children's book, Nonna's Birthday…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on May 2, 2013 at 8:05am — No Comments

Is the Common Core in Trouble? By Alison DeNisco

Is the Common Core in Trouble?

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Added by Michael Keany on May 2, 2013 at 8:03am — No Comments

Thompson: "Big (Dumb) Data"

Thompson: "Big (Dumb) Data"…

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Added by Michael Keany on May 1, 2013 at 2:43pm — No Comments

Have standardized tests really helped kids learn more? by Carol Burris

Have standardized tests really helped kids learn more?

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Added by Michael Keany on May 1, 2013 at 12:52pm — No Comments

Early-Childhood Education: Policy, Research, and Funding, or Fad?

In kindergarten classrooms across the nation we have those who can read and those who have yet to learn the alphabet. Some can make meaning from pictures and words and others don't know their colors. Ann Myers and Jill Berkowicz ask "Where do we stand on the issue of Early-Childhood Education??…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on May 1, 2013 at 9:32am — No Comments

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