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
Walt Sutterline has been a regular reader since What’s Working on Schools went live here at the HOPE Foundation blog site. I haven’t met him except through email and blog comments but today I am going to hold his website up as a public example of a teacher comfortable with technology. Walt doesn’t know I [...]
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Matt asked a great question in the comments section. The essence of his question is..”isn’t how a teacher uses the test really what makes a test formative or summative?”
I would say it depends. To be truly formative, I believe an assessment has to be clearly aligned with good instruction and be the type of assessment [...]
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Over at The Stock Mark Report, I repeat the question found in a recent online article:
Why is it that new teachers are technologically savvy yet by and large do not integrate technology into their instruction?
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I hope your Labor Day was relaxing or exciting - whichever one you needed the most!!!! We are back in the saddle again here.
I always like what Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant has to say.
In one of his latest posts he reviews one of the current books out that reviews 1 - 1 laptop initiatives.
In [...]
Tags: computers · laptops · students. 1 - 1 initiatives · teachers · technology
I’ll never forget two teacher heroes that made a difference in my career. I was fresh out of college and assigned to a third grade classroom in a working class neighborhood outside of Dayton, Ohio. My two new colleagues were Nancy Kinnison and Vivian Ekberg. Nancy and Vivian were veteran teachers with a strong background [...]
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I was thinking today about teacher heroes!
The thought came to me after reading a news account about an alert teacher who tackles a student with pipe bombs and thwarts a major disaster. Story is here.
But…I got to thinking about teacher heroes who get no ink. Can any readers share a hero story of how a [...]
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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 [...]
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You knew it would come to this, human nature being so often what it is. Schools accused of cheating. Schools accused of pushing the envelope on the ethics of testing and test administration. Of course schools don’t cheat, people cheat.
Here is an article about a principal who has resigned amidst accusations of test improprieties.
As the [...]
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When I was superintendent we did a neat little piece of action research on our Reading program. We were training/educating teachers on several different critical teaching behaviors in Reading. We then had our instructional coaches rate each teacher on these critical teaching behaviors and then put all the individual student reading achievement scores into Excel [...]
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