Michael Keany's Blog – January 2014 Archive (69)

The role of genes

The role of genes



Researchers at King's College, the University of Warwick, and the University of New Mexico have published …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 6:57pm — No Comments

Healthy relationships = more Zs for teens



Healthy relationships = more Zs for teens 



What has the largest influence on teens' sleep habits? …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 6:56pm — No Comments

Tackling student mobility

Tackling student mobility 



A new…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 6:54pm — No Comments

What Are the 7 Mind Frames of Learning? guest blog by John Hattie from Peter DeWitt

What Are the 7 Mind Frames of Learning?

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Bunkum Awards 2013 - Awards for Shoddy Educational Research

Bunkum Awards 2013

NEPC

This marks our eighth year of handing out the Bunkum Awards, recognizing the lowlights in educational research over the past year. As long as the bunk keeps flowing, the awards will keep coming. It’s the least we can do. This year’s deserving awardees join a…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 14, 2014 at 8:30am — No Comments

2nd class citizens by Grant Wiggins



2nd class citizens





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Added by Michael Keany on January 13, 2014 at 11:16am — No Comments

The Comcast-Khan Academy Partnership Could Be Trouble By Danielle Kehl

The Comcast-Khan Academy Partnership Could Be Trouble





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Added by Michael Keany on January 13, 2014 at 9:59am — No Comments

The Importance of “Talking Math” with Kids by Annie Murphy Paul

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Added by Michael Keany on January 13, 2014 at 8:03am — No Comments

Encouraging Teacher Leaders to Become Principals by BOB LENZ

 

Encouraging Teacher Leaders to Become Principals

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2014 at 5:49pm — No Comments

How to discipline students without turning school into a prison by Lynn Russo Whylly

How to discipline students without turning school into a prison

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2014 at 1:31pm — No Comments

I Hate Technology & Other Lame Opinions By Peter DeWitt

I Hate Technology & Other Lame Opinions

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2014 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Takeaways from Math Methods: How Will You Teach Effectively? by Jennifer Bay-Williams



Takeaways from Math Methods: How Will You Teach Effectively?

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2014 at 2:17pm — No Comments

Hurdles for teacher leaders

Hurdles for teacher leaders

Why must teacher leadership be so difficult? asks José Luis Vilson in a post on the Center for Teaching Quality website. Encouraging teachers in leadership roles helps all involved: Teachers can demonstrate professional growth over time and help fill voids in their school, principals can cultivate leaders in their buildings and work with them on mentoring new teachers, and students get a teacher with a macro-view…
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Added by Michael Keany on January 8, 2014 at 11:04am — No Comments

Toward a (truly) universal pre-K in NYC

Toward a (truly) universal pre-K in NYC

Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a campaign to win a tax on high-earning New Yorkers to vastly improve the city's pre-kindergarten and after-school programs, reports Al Baker in The New York Times. De Blasio has assembled a high-powered taskforce and media campaign to apply political pressure in Albany, where he needs state leaders' approval to raise the city's tax rate to 4.41 percent, from 3.87…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 8, 2014 at 11:03am — No Comments

ELLs and the policies around them

ELLs and the policies around them

A new brief from the Education Commission of the States examines reform issues around English Language Learners (ELLs), who as of 2010-11 were one in every 10 public school students in the United States. More than 25 percent of ELLs speak a language other than Spanish, and 10 percent speak a language that is not in the top ten; in some states, a majority of ELLs don't speak top-ten languages. The brief…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 8, 2014 at 11:01am — No Comments

6 HABITS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE by Gwen Moran



6 HABITS OF RESILIENT PEOPLE

WHAT MAKES SOME PEOPLE PERSEVERE THROUGH TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES WHILE OTHERS BEGIN FLAILING AT THE FIRST SIGN OF CRISIS? UNDERSTANDING THE KEY QUALITIES OF RESILIENT PEOPLE IS THE FIRST STEP TO CULTIVATING THAT BOUNCE-BACK QUALITY IN YOURSELF.

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Added by Michael Keany on January 7, 2014 at 10:44am — No Comments

The case for nagging kids about their homework

The case for nagging kids about their homework

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Added by Michael Keany on January 7, 2014 at 8:07am — No Comments

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