As the East Coast braces for a blizzard, I was thinking about some of my favorite wintry tales for young people.  Of course, Snow Day comes to mind, as well as Little House in the Big Woods.  The Twistrose Key is a 2013 release about a frozen realm.  I just picked it up, so I don't know yet if it belongs in the same category as the first two. 

Last February, as we braced for a blizzard, I wrote about my favorite winter movies.  I've reposted it below if…

Should schools monitor social media sites used by students?

by Mark Anderson

Posted By Contributor On December 23, 2013  In Best Practices News,Featured Best Practice,Featured on eSchool News,Opinion,Top News 

Are these 8 trends the future of K-12?

by Dr. Jeff Borden

Posted By Contributor On January 1, 2014  In Featured on eSchool News,Opinion,Technologies,Top News | No 

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Happy New Year,

Christine…

Permission to fail

APRIL 19, 2007 BY SCOTT MCLEOD 

Blah blah blah life long learning blah blah blah

MAY 23, 2011 BY SCOTT MCLEOD 

Could we have unwittingly prepared students to be career ready by teaching them how to work together?  Might it be feasible that business has caught up with something we knew previously? What do you think?

Seems the country is starting to feel the same way.

Here's a round-up of seven pundits and columnists, all explaining why people might be against Common Core.

People supporting this thing can read it and understand why they may be on the losing side.

People opposed to Common Core can read these developments with some satisfaction. It appears that…

The Answer Sheet

The invisibility of teachers

Ways of Using Technology in Classrooms

(Originally titled “Teaching Above the Line”)

In this Educational Leadership article, Doug Johnson (a district technology director in Minnesota) describes some of the ways technology is being used in classrooms. The bottom line, he says, is how effectively computers, tablets, e-books, online texts, Moodle courses, and other devices and platforms are helping students learn what they are…

Should Objectives Be Posted in Classrooms?

In this blog post, Grant Wiggins comments on administrators requiring teachers to post daily objectives on the wall, sometimes in the name of UbD-type backwards design of curriculum units. Some schools take it a step further: when students are asked what standard they’re working on, they chorus, “We’re working on ELA Standard B.2.a.i.” 

“This gets it all backwards,” says Wiggins. “The…

Arguably, the Education Establishment is hopelessly incompetent and/or ideologically sinister. 

Teachers would probably have a much better life if they would pull back from the Education Establishment. To a remarkable degree, teachers exhibit what is called the Stockholm syndrome. They have been kidnapped by the Education Establishment but insist on being loyal.

 The Education Establishment treats teachers almost contemptuously. Takes part of…

Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation For Literacy

08/22/2013, Judy Willis

TeachThought…

 Grim News from the NAEP

In this Education Gadfly article, Andy Smarick says the just-released National Assessment of Educational Progress data from 20 large U.S. cities contain lots of sad news about disadvantaged students. Specifically:

• In the average city, only one in four students reached proficiency in 4^th-grade and 8^th-grade reading and…