Two recent commentaries in Education Week and the NY Times focused on the need for annual state testing. Unfortunately we keep battling over testing at a time when we should really talk about learning.
In order for teachers to effectively teach everything on their list, they must use the priority standard approach. Here's how to do it.
We assume there are topics that parents don't need to know about when we engage in initiatives or changes, when the reality is that they are the very topics that parents need to know about.
5, 10, 15...how many years of teaching should a principal have before entering the role?
In leadership classes school leaders are taught to be visible, but in order to really foster student voice and put a focus on learning, school leaders need to be more than visible.
In schools we have staff that cross from young to veteran, which means we all need to be more generational Savvy in order to collaborate across generations.
Data comes to us both "hard" and "soft," and both can help us improve learning and our school climates.
Differentiation, if it is going to be successful, is not about moving all students from Point A to Point B - it is about moving each student from their Point A to their Point B.
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New York State is moving in a misguided direction. Will Students Turn Their Backs On Education because of it?
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