Michael Keany's Blog – April 2015 Archive (47)

3 Reasons Why Faculty Meetings Are a Waste of Time By Peter DeWitt

3 Reasons Why Faculty Meetings Are a Waste of Time

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Added by Michael Keany on April 21, 2015 at 9:41am — No Comments

Please, No More Professional Development! by Kristine Fox via Peter DeWitt

Please, No More Professional Development!

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Added by Michael Keany on April 21, 2015 at 9:39am — No Comments

Shadowing students, another example by Grant Wiggins

Another shadowing report

by grantwiggins

Today's post is a guest post from Jeremy Chiappeta, Executive Director at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy. Jeremy took us up on the challenge set by…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 20, 2015 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Educators alarmed by some questions on N.Y. Common Core tests by Carol Burris via Valerie Strauss

Answer Sheet

Educators alarmed by some questions on N.Y. Common Core tests

By Valerie Strauss April 19 at 12:15 PM

Washington Post…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 20, 2015 at 9:02am — No Comments

Title I -- program, no; funding stream, yes by Holly Yettick

Title I -- program, no; funding stream, yes

Does Title I raise test scores? asks Holly Yettick in Education Week. Fifty years after passage of the ESEA, the question remains unanswered, she writes. Evaluation after evaluation has failed to identify decisive, long-lasting impacts of the funding aimed at raising achievement for disadvantaged children. Part of this lack of evidence stems from Title I's design: Researchers face the fundamental problem of defining…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 17, 2015 at 2:18pm — No Comments

Everyone WINs! by Mary Hendricks-Harris

Everyone WINs!

Mary Hendricks-Harris

Mary Hendricks-Harris is chief academic officer for the Francis Howell School District in Missouri. With more than 20 years of experience, Mary has been a…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 17, 2015 at 12:49pm — No Comments

Want Reform? Principals Matter, Too By WILL MILLER



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Added by Michael Keany on April 17, 2015 at 8:41am — No Comments

Wrong Answer: In an era of high-stakes testing, a struggling school made a shocking choice. BY RACHEL AVIV





Wrong Answer

In an era of high-stakes testing, a struggling school made a shocking choice.

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Added by Michael Keany on April 15, 2015 at 2:10pm — No Comments

On the Atlanta Testing Scandal and Coaching By Elena Aguilar

On the Atlanta Testing Scandal and Coaching

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Added by Michael Keany on April 15, 2015 at 2:07pm — No Comments

The Declaration of Independence from Excessive Test Preparation - Want to Sign? by Steve Peha and Justin Baeder

FREE: The Declaration of Independence from Excessive Test Preparation

by Steve Peha

TEACHING THAT MAKES SENSE…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 1:24pm — No Comments

MUSIC: Now Don't Get Mad at Me... by Steve Peha

MUSIC: Now Don't Get Mad at Me...

by Steve Peha

TEACHING THAT MAKES SENSE

www.ttms.org

I don’t talk much about music in this newsletter and I really should, if for no other reason than I loved it in high school, was a music major in college for a while, and had a short but interesting…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 1:16pm — No Comments

iPads < Teachers By Peg Tyre

iPads < Teachers

Bright

https://medium.com/bright/ipads-teachers-e51896af3930…



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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 1:10pm — No Comments

Race to the Top: A Metaphor Reconsidered by Arnold Dodge

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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2015 at 12:56pm — No Comments

High Noon: The Showdown Over High-Stakes Testing by Rick Stiggins via Peter DeWitt

High Noon: The Showdown Over High-Stakes Testing

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Added by Michael Keany on April 6, 2015 at 8:52am — No Comments

The new new noncognitive skills by Kessington A. Bennett Waldorf IV (A Late April Fools Article)

The new new noncognitive skills

Kessington A. Bennett Waldorf IV…
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Added by Michael Keany on April 4, 2015 at 8:37am — No Comments

Helping Struggling Schools by Robert Slavin

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Added by Michael Keany on April 4, 2015 at 8:31am — No Comments

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