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Isn’t this the biggest challenge in education today? We can talk or write all we want about closing the achievement gap, helping teachers improve practice, evaluating teachers using student achievement scores, or integrating more art into the school day, but in the end if students are homeless learning becomes like climbing Mt. Everest. Elizabeth Harris’…
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When I think about the early years of my teaching career, I taught the way I was taught by those who came before me. I remember experiences where teachers lectured to deliver content, problems were given to be solved, and tests were taken to determine whether I learned. That was how I was taught from…
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Purpose Built Schools-Atlanta, in collaboration with Purpose Built Schools (a part of the Purpose Built Communities organization) and the Center for Teaching, has launched a Master Teacher program as a way for experienced teachers who are identified as being superb at what they do take on leadership responsibilities within the school, extending and expanding their expertise.…
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In his book, The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Stanislas Dehaene explores the research behind our understanding of numerosity. He looks at research over the past 100+ years that suggests animals have an innate understanding of numbers. He then goes on to explore and explain the acquisition of number sense in humans from…
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Over the past few months I have been working with school leaders in a variety of capacities. It has been a rewarding and rich summer of learning. A Westminster colleague, Thad Persons, and I ran a 3-day institute on leadership for about 15 educators who were either in new leadership roles or who wanted…
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