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HOPE Blog makes the list of 100 essential blog posts for the first year teacher!
January 13th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: blog posts · education · training
HOPE Conferences Make a Difference!!
November 20th, 2009 1 Comment
As many of you know, the HOPE Foundation provides world class conferences for educators featuring national leaders in education. Recently, my former colleagues from my time as a Superintendent of Schools returned from an exciting time in Atlanta at the latest HOPE conference.
Here is what Wendy had to say:
I have been an educator for 16 years. [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · assessment · conferences · education · educational leaderhsip · fun · HOPE Foundation · poverty and student achievement · professional development · school improvement · Shaping America's Future IV · teachers · training
Why do teachers have dents on each side of their head?
August 24th, 2009 3 Comments
In Lee Jenkins book, Permission to Forget, he explains why teachers have dents on each side of their head.
It is from getting hit on the head by the pendulum that swings from one extreme to the other in education.
Let’s see how many examples we can come up with.
How about the Reading Wars. The constant debates [...]
Tags: education · professional development · teachers
Do “Common Core Standards” have to be developed openly to be “common?”
July 31st, 2009 1 Comment
As most of our readers would know, 46 states have signed on to develop a “Common Core” of educational standards, which means of course…that national standards have now arrived.
And…in the age of accountability…you know what comes next…some form of testing those national standards.
Which means that there is some consternation about what those standards will look [...]
Tags: accountability · Achieve Inc. · ACT · common core · curriculum · education · national standards
How was your experience in the private sector different from the public sector?
May 4th, 2009 1 Comment
Mamy educators who come into the profession after years in the private sector find it to be culture shock. Some of these difference are good, some of them are bad.
I am curious as to how you see these differences. Anyone out there that would like to comment on the differences between public and private enterprise?
If [...]
Tags: education · private sector · public sector
Curing Poverty with Education?
April 7th, 2009 2 Comments
Everyone knows that the more education you have the higher the odds are that your lifetime earnings will be higher. Yet simply trying to “cure” poverty with education alone has had limited success.
American Prospect has an interesting article that explains some of the strengths and limitations of using education as a means of pulling people [...]
Tags: education · Educational Policy · employment · job training · lifetime earnings · poverty · poverty and student achievement · unemployment
Workshops today on using classroom-friendly data!
April 3rd, 2009 No Comments
It’s supposed to snow like mad here in Sheridan, Wyoming today. That’s why our favorite websites in Wyoming are the travel advisory web cams on the highways! I am here to participate in the school district’s day-long workshops on assessment.
After lunch I will be the presenter to the district faculty and administrators. This is the culminating [...]
Tags: data · data displays · education · school assessment · school data · school improvement · student motivation · Students · teachers
Students who want to learn
March 31st, 2009 1 Comment
Imagine an environment where students become researchers and writers and teachers become guides and helpers; providing tutelage for students who work on a major thesis of mutual interest.
Here is a great little story about a high school in Indiana that has developed a program for inquisitive students who want to read, write and research but [...]
Tags: education · fun · joy of learning · motivation · Net Generation · stsudents who want to learn · student motivation · Students · teachers
Are you trained or educated?
March 31st, 2009 15 Comments
Each semester we bring to campus Masters and Doctoral applicants who are trying to get into the University of Wyoming’s graduate programs in Educational Leadership. During our assessment/interview day my colleague Dr. Heather Duncan noted how often the word “training” came up during the conversations.
This prompted a discussion about whether adults should be “trained” or “educated.” The [...]
Tags: education · in service · professional development · training
Blogging live from Austria
March 24th, 2009 1 Comment
I am sitting in Salzburg, Austria looking out the window at the snow covered Alps. Today we toured Mozart’s birthplace and walked the streets of Salzburg. The sense of history overwhelms me. Seeing buildings that are 400 - 800 years old makes you realize how young America really is.
I saw a t-shirt this afternoon that [...]
