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  • Assessment: Is profit influencing practice?

    March 24, 2014

        A recent Spotlight Series from Education Week entitled, On Using Assessment to Measure Student Learning and Growth, was devoted to addressing some lingering questions regarding classroom assessment practices.  After reading the edition, I thought it might be helpful to share my reflections on a variety of these pieces.  The Center for Teaching blog has…

  • Inspiration about school from Boy George @centerteach

    March 24, 2014

    Boy George, interviewed this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition, shares his experiences with music, life in recovery, and thoughts about school in the piece, For Boy George, Music And Style Is Just ‘What I Do‘.  An interesting segment that reveals part of his journey over the past 20 years.  What struck me most about the…

  • Atlanta K12 Design Challenge Forging Ahead

    March 21, 2014

    Today is the first day of a two-day Design Summit @AK12DC.  Click here to follow Atlanta K12 Design Challenge.  Eighty-five teachers from eleven schools are participating in a two-day summit using design thinking to address a critical issue facing their school.  The project began five months ago with training of eleven facilitators, one from each…

  • Measure what matters, but do we know?

    March 17, 2014

    Giselle Martin-Kniep, President of Learner Centered Initiatives, spoke at ASCD 2014 about being sure we measure what matters.  She asked two fundamental questions that were the focus of her exploration. What does measuring what matters mean? Do we have the courage and will to measure what matters? One way to get into a deeper discussion…

  • Is STEAM just hot air?

    March 17, 2014

    I have been to a number of institutes and workshops on building an effective STEAM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, program in schools.  Thus far, I have not left a professional development experience with a clear sense of what it means when a school labels itself, “a STEAM school.”  Some schools offer programs students…

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