June 2013 Blog Posts (119)

The Core of the matter

The Core of the matter

Speaking on the NPR show On Point, Catherine Gewerz of Education Week said that what lies between the Common Core State Standards and assessments based on them is curriculum, "and that's where some of the heat is being generated... In other words, how do you turn standards into day-to-day instruction? That's going to vary a lot." One strain of criticism, she said, is that teachers and schools have had too little time with these very…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 18, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Penny Kittle, New Goals, and a Summer-Reading Revolution

I redesigned the English Department's summer reading assignment based on come lessons I learned at the NCTE Conference in Las Vegas.

We stopped mandating and started listening .... The great experiment begins this summer!!

Click here to read my new blog all about it -- lots of pictures and mind maps!!…

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Added by Daniel Weinstein on June 17, 2013 at 10:43pm — No Comments

Selling our value as teachers By Tony Baldasaro

Ideas that Work

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Selling our value as teachers

By Tony Baldasaro on June 14th, 2013 …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 17, 2013 at 3:12pm — No Comments

What Does Digital Leadership Mean? By Peter DeWitt

What Does Digital Leadership Mean?

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Added by Michael Keany on June 17, 2013 at 2:39pm — No Comments

Rules for thinking with tech: Is technology making us stupid—or smarter than we’ve ever been? by Annie Murphy Paul

Rules for thinking with techIs technology making us stupid—or smarter than we’ve ever…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 17, 2013 at 10:23am — No Comments

Our Schools, Cut Off From the Web By LUIS A. UBIÑAS, President of the Ford Foundation

The New York Times


June 16, 2013

Our Schools, Cut Off From the Web

ON June 6, at a middle school in Mooresville, N.C., President Obama …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 17, 2013 at 8:43am — No Comments

Finding America's Missing AP and IB Students By Fabienne Antoine and Pamela Tatz

Finding America's Missing AP and IB Students

By Fabienne Antoine and Pamela Tatz

Thomas Fordham Institute - The Education Gadfly

In the midst of a blooming field of research on how to serve high-achieving minority and lower-income youngsters,…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 15, 2013 at 8:32am — No Comments

Does Truancy Warrant Punishment? By Walt Gardner

Does Truancy Warrant Punishment?

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Added by Michael Keany on June 15, 2013 at 8:29am — 1 Comment

Guarantee Effective Teachers, Every Time By Christina Hall

Guarantee Effective Teachers, Every Time

Despite recent innovations in teacher education, many high-need schools still struggle to fill…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 15, 2013 at 8:27am — No Comments

Father's Day, the Writing Process, and the Art of Reinventing Yourself by HEATHER WOLPERT-GAWRON



Father's Day, the Writing Process, and the Art of Reinventing Yourself

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Added by Michael Keany on June 14, 2013 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Why Don't We 'Fix' Poverty While We're at It? by Deborah Meier

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Added by Michael Keany on June 14, 2013 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Resources for the iPad by John Larkin

Resources for the iPad

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Added by Michael Keany on June 14, 2013 at 4:43pm — No Comments

Reading: the biggest scam continues

Reading instruction remains the biggest problem in American education.

All the Establishment voices continue to talk about college and career ready, new core standards that will align with world standards, 21st-century skills--in other words, an endless parade of glib promises.

Meanwhile, many kids in the first grade are not learning to read. This makes the whole thing a sick joke.

Keep in mind that from 1930 to 2000, roughly speaking,…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on June 14, 2013 at 4:38pm — No Comments

People Matter...Let Them Know It

People Matter...Let Them Know It

Added by Tagrid Sihly on June 13, 2013 at 4:11pm — No Comments

Questions Arise About Need for Algebra 2 for All

Questions Arise About Need for Algebra 2 for All

Transition to Standards Looms

Article Tools Ed Week

Should all students take Algebra 2?

Florida seemed to say "no" this spring with the…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 13, 2013 at 3:18pm — No Comments

How Incentives Demoralize Us by Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz

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Added by Michael Keany on June 13, 2013 at 2:17pm — No Comments

The Unengageables by Dan Meyer

The Unengageables

Halfway through my curriculum design workshops, I ask teachers to share their "secret skepticisms." These are the sort of objections to new ideas that often take the form,…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 13, 2013 at 2:15pm — No Comments

A Like-Minded Community: Key for Sustaining Our Work as Educators by ELENA AGUILAR



A Like-Minded Community: Key for Sustaining Our Work as Educators

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Added by Michael Keany on June 13, 2013 at 1:59pm — No Comments

Will the Humanities Survive? By Walt Gardner

Will the Humanities Survive?

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Added by Michael Keany on June 12, 2013 at 11:16am — No Comments

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