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What Kind of Success Does 'Character' Predict? By Joan F. Goodman

What Kind of Success Does 'Character' Predict?

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IQ, the time-honored predictor of school success, has a new rival: “character.” As described by Paul Tough, who initially popularized these ideas in a …

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Added by Michael Keany on November 27, 2012 at 3:44pm — No Comments

Meeting Students Where They Are--Emotionally By David Ginsburg

Meeting Students Where They Are--Emotionally

"You're going…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 27, 2012 at 3:31pm — No Comments

The Power of Academic Parent-Teacher Teams by Ann O'Brien

The Power of Academic Parent-Teacher Teams

This time of year, many people are reflecting on what is truly important in life and all they have to be grateful for. The most common item of the top of these lists:…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 27, 2012 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Working in Ethiopia

Friends,

I have decided to go to Ethiopia to spend the year working on improving reading in the primary grades. This has always been my passion and it is one important reason I have been working for years on building the library and sending books there) through h2 Empower (www.h2empower.org). It is essential that children learn to read. Then they can ask questions and find ways to solve themselves, become critical thinkers and lovers of learning. But… Continue

Added by Helen Boxwill on November 25, 2012 at 4:02pm — No Comments

On Being Thankful—Taking the Time to Do the Right Thing

By the time you read this—however you spent Thanksgiving—what was served, and how you spent time together with family will have morphed into the frenzy that is often associated with the start of the traditional holiday season.  As I took the time on Wednesday, November 21st to express my appreciation to the staff of our school district prior to the actual holiday break I was reminded of the many things that I am thankful for, especially at this time of year.

 

The…

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Added by David A. Gamberg on November 24, 2012 at 11:54am — No Comments

A Conference Perspective

When I accepted an invitation to attend the World Innovation Summit on Education, WISE2012, in Doha, Qatar, I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into. In my own arrogance I thought I was a seasoned education conference attendee. I have been to maybe a…

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Added by Tom Whitby on November 23, 2012 at 3:20pm — No Comments

Don't Let Data Drive Your Dialogue by Dr. Bruce Beairsto

Don't Let Data Drive Your Dialogue

Dr. Bruce Beairsto
4 November 2010

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 23, 2012 at 8:10am — 1 Comment

Don't Be Defined By Who You Were in High School By Peter DeWitt

Don't Be Defined By Who You Were in High School

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Added by Michael Keany on November 23, 2012 at 8:02am — No Comments

When ‘Grading’ Is Degrading By MICHAEL BRICK

The New York Times


November 22, 2012

When ‘Grading’ Is Degrading

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Added by Michael Keany on November 23, 2012 at 7:55am — No Comments

More Concerns About the Measures of Effective Teaching Project by Kim Marshall

More Concerns About the Measures of Effective Teaching Project

(Originally titled “Fine-Tuning Teacher Evaluation”)

 

In this Educational Leadership article, Kim Marshall says the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project’s three-part plan for teacher evaluation makes sense, but suggests ways that each area could be implemented more effectively:

Classroom observations – The MET…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 22, 2012 at 7:29am — No Comments

A Stinging Critique of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project

A Stinging Critique of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project

(Originally titled “The MET Project: The Wrong $45 Million Question”)

 

In this Educational Leadership article, Rachael Gabriel (University of Connecticut/ Storrs) and Richard Allington (University of Tennessee/Knoxville) criticize the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project for reducing its initial question – How can we identify and…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 22, 2012 at 7:29am — No Comments

How do You Defeat an Army of Determined Educators? You Don't! by Anthony Cody

How do You Defeat an Army of Determined Educators? You Don't!

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2012 at 6:39pm — No Comments

A New Kind of Problem: The Common Core Math Standards by Barry Garelick

- Barry Garelick recently retired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and obtained his credential to teach secondary math in California. He has written extensively about math education for various publications including Education Next, Educational Leadership, and Education…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2012 at 4:40pm — No Comments

Supporting New Teachers to Make Global Connections

Supporting New Teachers to Make Global Connections

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2012 at 4:35pm — No Comments

A Call to Teachers: Don't Be Sheep by Andrew Biros

A Call to Teachers: Don't Be Sheep

Ed Week

Our country is currently swept up in a public education revolution. Change is happening, due in large part to an opportunity gap perpetuated by parents' socioeconomic status.

And yet reform efforts—while necessary and imminent to a more equal future—too…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2012 at 4:34pm — No Comments

The New Flavor of Math Instruction By Liana Heitin

The New Flavor of Math Instruction

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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Better Teachers or Better Programs? by Robert Slavin

Better Teachers or Better Programs?
Robert Slavin //Oct. 10, 2012

Several years ago, I happened to be visiting a third grade reading class in a suburban, middle class school. The teacher, I will call her Ms. Fields, had just been named…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 20, 2012 at 3:44pm — No Comments

Clicking Our Way to Great Teaching By Robert Slavin

Clicking Our Way to Great Teaching

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Added by Michael Keany on November 20, 2012 at 3:43pm — No Comments

What to Do About Cheating? by C. M. Rubin

C. M. Rubin

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Added by Michael Keany on November 20, 2012 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Creating a Culture of "Can" by TERRY HEICK

Creating a Culture of "Can"

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Added by Michael Keany on November 20, 2012 at 3:29pm — No Comments

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