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Debating the Common-Core Nonfiction Requirements By Anthony Rebora

Debating the Common-Core Nonfiction Requirements

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Added by Michael Keany on January 3, 2013 at 8:11am — No Comments

The Talking Cure: Teaching Mathematical Discourse By Marsha Ratzel

The Talking Cure: Teaching Mathematical Discourse

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What's on the horizon for my young learners? I can't predict the future, but I know this much is true: Performing basic computational tasks won't be a gateway to a…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 3, 2013 at 8:08am — No Comments

A Teacher's New Year's Resolution: Brag More By Julie Conlon

A Teacher's New Year's Resolution: Brag More

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Last month, I joined a friend for dinner and drinks after her Chamber of Commerce "Wednesday Friendsday." Sitting at the martini bar amidst real estate agents and financial…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 3, 2013 at 8:06am — No Comments

Practice As a Key to Improving Supervisory Conversations

Practice As a Key to Improving Supervisory Conversations

In this New York Times article, Troy, NY principal Katie Yezzi describes how her Uncommon Schools boss, Doug Lemov, coached her in preparation for a midyear conference with a struggling teacher. “I was dreading the review,” says Yezzi. “I didn’t want to be harsh, but I also didn’t want to water down the message and give this teacher a false impression. I knew I wasn’t ready to have that…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 1, 2013 at 9:06pm — No Comments

Madeline Hunter on Pre-Observation Conferences (an Oldie but Goodie)

Madeline Hunter on Pre-Observation Conferences (an Oldie but Goodie)

(Originally titled “Let’s Eliminate the Pre-Observation Conference”)

In this provocative Educational Leadership article from 1986, instructional guru Madeline Hunter said, “The pre-observation conference is a vestigial organ remaining from the days when observation of teaching was a ‘fuzzy’ activity, depending on the intuition or bias of the supervisor……

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Added by Michael Keany on January 1, 2013 at 9:04pm — No Comments

David Brooks on Changing Bad Behavior

David Brooks on Changing Bad Behavior

In this New York Times column, David Brooks tells the story of a scorching e-mail that Nick Crews, a British father of three grown children, sent his offspring last February. It’s come to be known as the “Crews Missile” in Great Britain because of its hectoring language toward the hapless children. It concluded, “I want to hear no more from any of you until, if you feel inclined, you have a success or an…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 1, 2013 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Three Professional Reads That are Worth Your Time by Bill Ferriter

Three Professional Reads That are Worth Your Time

The Tempered Radical by Bill Ferriter

Let's start with a simple truth:  The best school leaders -- whether they are classroom teachers, principals, or district professional development providers -- should ALWAYS be reading simply because reading keeps a practitioner current and serves as a source of constant intellectual…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 28, 2012 at 8:10pm — No Comments

What Middle School Students Need to Read

What Middle School Students Need to Read

Claire Needell Hollander

Claire Needell Hollander is an English teacher at a public middle school in New York City. She is the author of "Something Right Behind Her."

UPDATED DECEMBER 27, 2012, 6:03 PM

Emotional…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 28, 2012 at 8:08pm — No Comments

Believing in Students: The Power to Make a Difference by DR. RICHARD CURWIN

Believing in Students: The Power to Make a Difference

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Added by Michael Keany on December 27, 2012 at 9:51am — 1 Comment

Bridging the New Digital Divide by Ed Finkel

Bridging the New Digital Divide

Technology opportunities and challenges school leaders must address.
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Added by Michael Keany on December 26, 2012 at 3:05pm — No Comments

How to Unleash Creativity

How to Unleash Creativity

“Most people are born creative,” say Tom Kelley (University of California/Berkeley and University of Tokyo) and David Kelley (Stanford University) in this thoughtful Harvard Business Review article. “As children, we revel in imaginary play, ask outlandish questions, draw blobs and call them dinosaurs.” But as the years pass, formal education takes its toll and many people no longer see themselves as…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 26, 2012 at 8:52am — No Comments

Eighty-Six Things I Learned at P.S. 86 by Hallie Fox

Eighty-Six Things I Learned at P.S. 86 (Hallie Fox)

This guest post is written by Hallie Fox, who taught in a Bronx (New York City) elementary school–P.S. 86. She was a student in my Fall quarter seminar on “Good School and…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 22, 2012 at 2:22pm — No Comments

The Best of 2012: My Favorite Books for Parents and Educators by Mark Phillips

The Best of 2012: My Favorite Books for Parents and Educators

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Added by Michael Keany on December 22, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Students Must Unplug by Bill Smoot

Kicking A Digital Addiction: What Happens When Students Must Unplug

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Added by Michael Keany on December 22, 2012 at 1:51pm — No Comments

The 8 Aspects of Teacher Learning by Sr Geralyn Schmidt

The 8 Aspects of Teacher Learning

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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2012 at 2:54pm — No Comments

The science class of the (not too distant) future by John Martin

December 20th, 2012
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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2012 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Why Instruction in Second Languages Remains a Priority

 

Second-Language Learning

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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2012 at 2:51pm — 1 Comment

To Keep Them Safe by Gerard Dempsey

To Keep Them Safe

by Jerry Dempsey

It is our fundamental task as a human race to support and keep our children safe.  As parents, teachers, leaders, or citizens, we all bear the burden to protect the young and create a world which tries to save them from pain, loss, and especially, death.  Random accidents or acts of violence make this a daunting and, sometimes, impossible task.  However, for the very young, we have created…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 20, 2012 at 3:36pm — No Comments

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