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A national conversation continues to take place about teacher evaluation systems, especially in states that submitted a Race-to-the-Top proposal, an Obama Administration initiative designed to fuel innovation in schools. This competitive grant program required states to submit a plan for how they would retool their current evaluation system, making greater use of student achievement data.…
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Check out this fascinating video about the properties of water and propylene glycol. The interaction of the two in a mixture. As one vaporizes in the mixture it influences the behavior of the drop and an adjacent drop. This could be a very interesting inquiry activity for physical science, chemistry, or physics students. The Physics…
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There is an interesting article in the recent edition of Harvard Education Letter, STEAM Not STICKERS, by Edward P. Clapp and Raquel Jimenez. The authors discuss the importance of looking for authentic and intellectually justifiable ways to integrate art into the STEM disciplines. They looked at a variety of STEAM (A for Arts) projects in various…
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I recently visited one of the eleven schools that are part of Atlanta K12 Design Challenge (@ak12dc). Mountain Park Elementary, the Mustangs (@MPE_Mustangs), is a Fulton County School north of the I-285 loop. I met with Stacy Perlman, the school’s principal, and Wendy Kelly, the school’s project-based learning coach. After our meeting they took me…
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A recent article in Harvard Business Review, Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It, written by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sill demystifies the beliefs we hold about how to implement strategic thinking or planning. Here are the five myths the authors discuss and demystify. Myth 1: Execution equals alignment The authors point out that…
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