From Larry Cuban's Blog
Too few policymakers have ever taught in public schools. Even fewer can articulate what it is about teaching young children, youth, and adults that binds teachers and students together…
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June 2013 Volume X Issue VI
Just for the ASKing! is a monthly e-newsletter that addresses the needs of all those who strive to be instructional leaders. This month’s issue is the third in a periodic series focused on the role and use of technology as a teaching and learning tool. It focuses on building our own digital literacy so that we can provide our students learning experiences that are aligned with…
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I attended an event last week at Smithtown West High School in Smithtown, Long Island. It was the 17th year, that’s right, the 17th year for the Smithtown School of Business Annual Business Olympics. Over 200 high school students from both Smithtown High School East and Smithtown High School West participated in teams. The students presented their concept for a new business in the field of “Apps”. If you don’t know what an App is, it’s something…
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From Larry Cuban's Blog
Too few policymakers have ever taught in public schools. Even fewer can articulate what it is about teaching young children, youth, and adults that binds teachers and students together…
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What Makes Boys Form Good “Working Alliances” with Teachers?
In this intriguing Kappan article, Michael Reichert (Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives) and Richard Hawley (headmaster emeritus of University School in Cleveland) describe their study of thousands of secondary-school teachers and male students in six countries. Their conclusion: relationships are the key to adolescent boys’ success in school: “[R]elationship does not…
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Gates's altered stance
Though widely viewed as a critic of teachers and their unions, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has begun reaching out to both in new ways, writes Linda Shaw in The Seattle Times. It is putting less emphasis on test-score metrics, and it strongly supports the notion that a fair evaluation of teachers requires multiple measures. About five years ago, Gates thought the best way to improve teachers was to "get rid of 10-20-30 percent of…
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The Core of the matter
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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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ON June 6, at a middle school in Mooresville, N.C., President Obama …
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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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