New teacher evaluation framework promises to serve students, and educators, fairly
By Dan Domenech
[1]"We have seen over the past few months a strong backlash…
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Added by Michael Keany on September 9, 2011 at 6:43pm —
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For the first time since I have been supervising student teachers, I have a group at the start of the year, as opposed to my usual assignment at the latter half of the school year. This has brought to light a subject that I often fought against as a teacher, and now have to counsel student teachers on how best to approach the subject. Summer Reading: how do we assess it?
New York State’s recommendation for reading is that each student completes reading 25 books per year. Most…
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Added by Tom Whitby on September 8, 2011 at 12:43pm —
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NY Times OP ed on School Libraries being indispensable....
Here's the link...but I think you need to be a subscriber so I will copy and paste the article as well! …
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Added by Pam Calandra on September 7, 2011 at 11:27am —
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I thought I'd use this space to share a recent blog entry from one of my favorite blogs - Dangerously Irrelevant If you aren't following Dr. Scott McLeod already, I'd suggest subscribing to his site.
By Dr. Scott McLeod (Dangerously Irrelevant)
Dear principal or…
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Added by William Brennan, Ed.D. on September 6, 2011 at 8:39pm —
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As an educational blogger I would love to think, that once I reflected on an issue in education, and addressed it in my blog, everyone would clearly understand the error of their ways and fall in line according to my sage advice. Of course the reform movement would move forward, and I would expect a small plaque would be placed on a bench in front of the lobby of some school commemorating my great contribution to the system that we call education.
That being said, the reality is…
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Added by Tom Whitby on September 1, 2011 at 2:00pm —
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After the earthquake on the East Coast last week, I guess I had the term “Shake-Up” on my mind. I don’t know which I considered first, the title, or the post. The beginning of the school year has arrived as many of us do every year, I am wondering what I will do differently this year from those same classes that I had last year. This is something that many teachers consider as they enter a new year. It is also something that many teachers do not ultimately address, but rather settle for…
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Added by Tom Whitby on August 31, 2011 at 2:03pm —
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE
Over the course of the last week, I began to notice the days have been getting shorter. The mornings are cooler. And the shelves of Target are stocked with boxes of Crayola crayons on sale for forty cents. I don’t know when all of this happened but I realized with summer fading into the horizon, I better get out there and enjoy its final days before it completely disappears. So,…
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Added by Kim Yaris on August 31, 2011 at 10:30am —
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What’s the formula for a good school?
By Jay Mathews, Published: August 28
Summer’s gone, almost. It’s time to get serious about fixing our schools.
I had fun in July and August jousting with readers about provocative topics such as teachers making unannounced home visits and getting D.C. schools leaders…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 29, 2011 at 12:28pm —
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What Schools Can Learn From Google, IDEO, and Pixar
The country's strongest innovators embrace creativity, play, and collaboration -- values that also inform their physical spaces.
A community about to build or rehab a…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 29, 2011 at 9:11am —
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Twenty Movies Every Educator Should See
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Added by Michael Keany on August 26, 2011 at 6:21pm —
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Added by Michael Keany on August 26, 2011 at 1:14pm —
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Added by Michael Keany on August 26, 2011 at 1:12pm —
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A few days ago, I watched a
series of videos produced by PBS and the New York State Education Department aimed at helping educators understand the Common Core Standards. I watched intently as David Coleman, one of the Core’s contributing authors and John B. King, commissioner of Education in New York, outlined the six primary instructional shifts the core seeks to…
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Added by Kim Yaris on August 25, 2011 at 10:43am —
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August 24, 2011
How to Fix Our Math Education
By SOL GARFUNKEL and DAVID MUMFORD
NY Times
THERE is widespread alarm in the United States about the state of our math education. The anxiety can be traced to the poor performance of American students on various international tests, and it is now embodied in George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, which requires…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 25, 2011 at 7:55am —
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How Teachers and New Administrators Can Lead Together
By Cindi Rigsbee
Teacher Leader Network
A few weeks ago, the faculty at my school received an unexpected call from our principal. He used the synchronized messaging system that delivers phone calls to all of us at once, usually announcing weather delays and PTA meetings. And even though I was…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 24, 2011 at 4:05pm —
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My BS was in Computer Science. I worked for over 20 in the software business. At the age of 45 I was fortunately laid off and was able to reviewed my life. I wanted to find a profession in which I could earn enough of a living tto support my family (3 children - single mom) while contibuting to the general good of our society. I decided to become a teacher.
I called my local district HR person. She told me that older teachers were not considered for elementary positions…
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Added by carla Kramer on August 24, 2011 at 10:42am —
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For those who do not know about it, #Edchat is a weekly chat about education that takes place at noon and 7 PM ET every Tuesday on Twitter. It has involved as many as a thousand teachers globally putting out over 3,000 tweets in an hour. #Edchat has existed continuously for two years, taking only 2 weeks of for Christmas and New Years. #Edchat has won awards and has been written about in every major US educational Journal. Additionally, since #Edchat began, about 60 other chats have popped up…
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Added by Tom Whitby on August 23, 2011 at 2:53pm —
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There are more successful schools than you think (see for yourself)
This was written by Sean Slade, director of Healthy School Communities at ASCD, a global association empowering educators to support…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 23, 2011 at 1:47pm —
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I have been teaching a course in interdisciplinary instruction for teaching candidates for many years. Currently, I use my own book in which I propose approaches to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary instructional unit planning. I retired from full-time teaching in 2008 but have continued to teach the course in the fall semester each year. Anyone interested in the specific interpretations I give to the interdisciplinary methodology may want to look at a website I use for students.…
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Added by Karlyn Wood on August 22, 2011 at 5:03pm —
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How Do We Prepare Our Children for What’s Next?
Paul Schultz
What kids learn at a young age will determine whether they're prepared for a future full of unknowns.
When most of us were deciding what to major in at college, the word Google was not a verb.…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 22, 2011 at 4:33pm —
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