November 2012 Blog Posts (84)

Teacher Quality: Investing in What Matters By Arthur L. Costa, Robert J. Garmston, and Diane P. Zimmerman

Teacher Quality: Investing in What Matters

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Spurred by awards of federal funding under the Race to the Top competition, many states are adopting teacher-evaluation systems with…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 16, 2012 at 7:32pm — No Comments

What Does the "Fiscal Cliff" Mean for Schools? by Donna Krache

How education could plunge off the 'fiscal cliff'

by Donna Krache, CNN

(CNN) Sequestration: The word strikes fear in the hearts of school boards…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 16, 2012 at 7:21pm — No Comments

Voices: Common Core helps teachers prioritize by Megan Lawson

Voices: Common Core helps teachers prioritize

Written by  on Nov 15th, 2012.

Denver South High School math teacher Megan Lawson says the Common Core State…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 16, 2012 at 7:19pm — No Comments

The Autism Project: Parent to parent on dealing with a diagnosis

The Autism Project: Parent to parent on dealing with a diagnosis

Published on Wednesday November 14, 2012…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 16, 2012 at 5:37pm — No Comments

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World By Greg Hutko

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World

By Greg Hutko

This recent Pew study—the first in a series of three on the role of technology in the classroom—investigates how the Internet has affected middle school and high school students’ research skills and strategies. While this survey of 2,500 AP and National Writing Project teachers (presumably those in the most advanced classrooms) does offer a peek into this complicated issue, the window remains…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 15, 2012 at 7:05pm — No Comments

How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement By Andrew Saraf

How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement

By Andrew Saraf

What happens when teachers drop out? Conventional wisdom has long said that the costs associated with such transitions (e.g., the loss of routine and the loss of an experienced teacher) harm student achievement. Yet the leading research on this topic concludes otherwise: In 2010, Eric Hanushek and Steven…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 15, 2012 at 7:04pm — No Comments

Sandy and Climate Change - An Opportunity to Teach Argumentative Writing

November 15, 2012

 

For the past two days, I have blogged about Superstorm Sandy and the realities of climate change.   Even the staunchest skeptics must accept that when Bloomberg Businessweek runs a cover story, "It's Global Warming, Stupid,"  it is time to take notice.  Although climate change and possible solutions may seem the purview of scientists and political commentators, it would make a great topic for teaching argumentative writing.  Please consider this…

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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on November 15, 2012 at 9:39am — No Comments

What is a WISE Conference?

A few weeks ago I received an email invitation to attend an education conference with all expenses paid. This is done to get the conferences noticed in the education community. It is an expense and a necessary element of Public relations. Depending on the quality of the conference, sometimes it pays off, but sometimes it exposes flaws of a conference to the world of connected educators. This is not an uncommon practice, and as a connected educator, I look upon it as an opportunity with each…

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Added by Tom Whitby on November 15, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment by GRANT WIGGINS

Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment

Tests don't just measure absorption of facts. They teach what we value.

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Credit: Thomas…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 14, 2012 at 6:44pm — No Comments

Bad Teaching Practice #1: "I am Only Going to Teach Those Who Are Ready To Learn" By Anthony Cody

Bad Teaching Practice #1: "I am Only Going to Teach Those Who Are Ready To Learn"

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Added by Michael Keany on November 13, 2012 at 9:35pm — No Comments

Teaching Climate Change in Sandy's Wake By Laurence Peters

Teaching Climate Change in Sandy's Wake

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When asked what was the greatest threat a statesman might face, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is said to have replied, "Events, dear boy, events."

Hurricane…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 13, 2012 at 9:06pm — No Comments

Measuring the Arts?

Time will tell if the grand plan to measure everything in education in the name of reform will produce more engineers, mathematicians, or scientists.   Having recently seen the Broadway production of Wicked I find it hard to fathom that the next generation of artists, musicians, stage production coordinators, choreographers and the like will benefit by SLOs or any metric that the data wonks may create.  Creativity is in fact the most jeopardized commodity that we risk losing if we…

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Added by David A. Gamberg on November 13, 2012 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Problems with Value-Added Teacher Evaluation in Secondary Schools

Problems with Value-Added Teacher Evaluation in Secondary Schools

 

In this Education Week article, Stephen Sawchuk reports on two new studies that question the accuracy of value-added teacher evaluation in middle and high schools. What undermines the validity of value-added data, say the studies, is students being grouped by achievement. Value-added analysis compares a statistical estimate of students’ projected growth with…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 13, 2012 at 6:47am — No Comments

Flipping Lincoln

Flipping Lincoln: Watch the movie Lincoln & discuss at #edfocus on Lincoln's birthday!

I am a huge fan of twitter and continue to use it as a 24/7/365 portal to learning.  As an instructional leader, I am constantly looking for ways to discuss topics on leadership and…

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Added by Bill Burkhead on November 12, 2012 at 6:56pm — No Comments

Hurricane Sandy: An SEL Lesson in Responding to Calamity by Maurice Elias

Hurricane Sandy: An SEL Lesson in Responding to Calamity

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Added by Michael Keany on November 12, 2012 at 12:54pm — No Comments

What High-School Students Should Learn About Race by Lawrence Blum

What High-School Students Should Learn About Race

 

“Americans, especially white Americans, don’t like to talk about race,” says University of Massachusetts professor Lawrence Blum in this thoughtful Harvard Education Letter article. “Many Americans think we are in a ‘postracial’ society, partly because a black man is president, so they don’t need to give much thought to race anymore. This view is completely and deeply…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 12, 2012 at 8:10am — No Comments

Are EDU conferences meeting our needs?

Today I attended the 39th Annual Conference for the Association of Middle Level Education in Portland, Oregon. I actually presented for this group for a couple of times about 25 years ago when it was The National Middle Schools Association. That was back in the day when we had far fewer middle schools. The model most often employed back then was the Junior High School. Junior high schools were 7-9 mini high schools. Little kids, little problems (what were we…

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Added by Tom Whitby on November 10, 2012 at 7:32pm — No Comments

Setting Students Up for Success

Setting Students Up for Success

Create the path of least resistance





By Rebecca Friedman with Chavi Abramson  …

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Added by Michael Keany on November 10, 2012 at 2:14pm — No Comments

Are "old school" teaching methods still relevant? by Annie Murphy Paul

Brilliant: The Science of Smart

Why Kids Should Learn Cursive (and Math Facts, and Word Roots)

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Added by Michael Keany on November 10, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

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