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The Center for Teaching is collaborating with Drew Charter School’s administration to launch a Data Wise Improvement Process at the school. We are trying to figure out how best to integrate the Data Wise plan into the school’s culture. Last year, the Senior Administrative Team worked through ten, one-hour workshops sessions becoming familiar with Data…
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What is critical thinking? How do we intentionally teach critical thinking skills? How do we know that students are mastering critical thinking skills? What will it look like in the classroom and for the graduate when students have mastered the skills? How should we effectively assess the critical thinking skills we say we value? Finally,…
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Yesterday, I attended the Elementary School faculty meeting at The Westminster Schools. Eugenia Wattles, the Elementary School Counselor and teacher of Bible Values, gave a wonderful introduction and prayer to open the meeting. Her message was that relationships matter most to students. One of her statements resonated with me: One of the greatest gifts you…
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Today, the Center for Teaching launched two Edward E. Ford Foundation cohorts. These cohorts are being funded by a leadership grant that the Center for Teaching at The Westminster Schools received from the Edward E. Ford Foundation. This two-year grant will fund four cohorts that will involved 40 faculty in the Atlanta area. One cohort…
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Over my holiday, I read a number of books but the one that inspired this blog article was My Stroke of Insight, by Dr. Jill Bolton Taylor. If you have not read it, I highly recommend it as a journey into the life of a stroke survivor’s recovery and the challenges she faced along her…
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