As school districts struggle to develop a culture of continuous progress, many of them have found strategies from the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) framework to be instrumental in changing school culture.
Here is a nice little article on PLC’s found in the HOPE Foundation archives on the web site.
If you haven’t surfed around the HOPE web [...]
Entries from February 19th, 2010
Professional Learning Communities
February 19th, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: HOPE · PLC's · PLC's Professional Learning Communities · professional development · staff development
Alan Blankstein in the news!
February 16th, 2010 No Comments
HOPE Foundation Founder and President, Alan Blankstein was in the news twice this week.
Here is an articlediscussing some of HOPE’s successful case studies of schools who have made tremendous improvement.
It was interesting reading some of the first reader comments regarding whether or not the schools should accept responsibility for student success. From reading the first [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · HOPE Foundation
Has the classroom environment changed?
February 12th, 2010 2 Comments
When I first started teaching elementary school in the late 70’s, it was fairly unusual to have a student go so out of control that they threw things or had temper tantrums. Recently in one of my doctoral level classes I asked the students to describe how many of these type of students there were at [...]
Tags: classroom management · discipline
The future of online/internet based education?
February 9th, 2010 1 Comment
I am not sure where the future lies with online education, but it is clear that face-to-face instruction is going to continue to be supplemented and in some cases supplanted by online instruction.
Here is a 10 minue video clip that discusses some of these options that students have today. It should be a wake up [...]
Tags: online learning
50 Best Educational Blogs
February 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Our Blog “What’s Working in Schools” was just named to another list of best educational blogs!
To take a tour of some of education’s best blogs simply follow the links on the list and enjoy a whirlwind tour of the edusphere.
“50 Best Educational Blogs”
Tags: best blogs · educational blogs
