Michael Keany's Blog – June 2013 Archive (105)

The Lost Art of Teaching Soundly Structured Lessons By Mike Schmoker

The Lost Art of Teaching Soundly Structured Lessons

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More than 20 years ago, I was able to give my sister, Kathy, a life-saving kidney. It almost didn’t happen: Initial tests indicated that I was not a good enough genetic match to make the operation successful.…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 6, 2013 at 10:08am — No Comments

4 Ways High Schools Can Promote Creative Expression in Their Students by James Anderson

4 Ways High Schools Can Promote Creative Expression in Their Students 

With the constant budget cuts reducing the availability of artistic electives, and the intensified focus on standardized tests, it can be hard to feel as though there is any room left for creative expression in school districts. For students, this can be discouraging and result in boredom and disinterest in their academic efforts, and for those who are part of the administration,…

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Lessons from the Field: Teaching Foundational Life Skills Through Baseball by KEVIN CHRISTOFORA



Lessons from the Field: Teaching Foundational Life Skills Through Baseball

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Transformation Begins With Reflection: How Was Your Year? by ELENA AGUILAR



Transformation Begins With Reflection: How Was Your Year?

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Why Everyone Should Eat Cheerios and Celebrate Diversity By Peter DeWitt

Why Everyone Should Eat Cheerios and Celebrate Diversity

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Poor Children Need a Hand Up, Not Hospice by Michael Petrilli

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Evaluating the evaluators by Barnett Berry

Evaluating the evaluators



Debates continue to swirl over the use of student test scores—and any number of statistical…

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How Do Value-Added Indicators Compare to Other Measures of Teacher Effectiveness? by Douglas N. Harris

How Do Value-Added Indicators Compare to Other Measures of Teacher Effectiveness?

Posted on October 15th, 2012.

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10 Signs Your Child Isn’t Ready for Kindergarten

10 Signs Your Child Isn’t Ready for Kindergarten

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Added by Michael Keany on June 5, 2013 at 10:43am — No Comments

7 SHARED TRAITS THAT UNITE WOMEN IN POWER BY: EKATERINA WALTER



7 SHARED TRAITS THAT UNITE WOMEN IN POWER

WITH MORE AND MORE WOMEN LOOKING TO LEAN IN, NOW IS THE TIME TO EXAMINE THE QUALITIES THAT HELP FEMALE LEADERS GET TO THE TOP.

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Added by Michael Keany on June 4, 2013 at 10:08am — No Comments

Helping Students Develop Leadership by Susan R. Madsen

Helping Students Develop Leadership

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Added by Michael Keany on June 3, 2013 at 12:57pm — No Comments

NCLB Reauthorization: Here We Go Again By Rick Hess

NCLB Reauthorization: Here We Go Again

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Governing American Education: Some Modest Proposals By Marc Tucker

Governing American Education: Some Modest Proposals

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More Vetoes of Teach For America Needed By John Wilson

More Vetoes of Teach For America Needed

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Is the Tea Party Right About the Common Core? By Anthony Cody

Is the Tea Party Right About the Common Core?

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Added by Michael Keany on June 3, 2013 at 12:46pm — 1 Comment

The Capstone Experience by Eric Sheninger

The Capstone Experience…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 3, 2013 at 9:39am — No Comments

What’s a Fact? And who can we/should we trust? by Deborah Meier

What’s a Fact? And who can we/should we trust?

Dear readers.  Even if this is far too long for a blog—2000 plus words!–please, if you read it, respond.

Thanks.

The number one…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 3, 2013 at 9:34am — No Comments

NCTE President Asks to Slow Down the Common Core By Peter DeWitt

NCTE President Asks to Slow Down the Common Core

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Added by Michael Keany on June 3, 2013 at 9:11am — No Comments

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