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Diane Ravitch appeared on the Daily Show recently and talked about her new book, Death and Life of the Great American School System. She makes the case for not blaming teachers for the failure of our schools, especially inner city schools in cities struggling with poverty and unemployment. She points out that students have to…
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One of Westminster’s first grade teams, under the leadership of Karen Anderson are interested in having their students engage in project-based learning. Karen and her team design many of their lessons in language arts, math, and social studies around projects that integrate the content and skills they are teaching. On a recent visit to their classroom, I…
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In Dan Coyle’s book, The Talent Code, he writes about deep practice in chapter 4, Three Rules of Deep Practice. The journey he takes in the book to explore where talent comes from leads him to this idea of deep practice, the 10,000 hours of practice over a period of time to master a high-level…
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Here we go again, politicians trying to drive innovation in the classroom. 11.Alive reports that the Georgia State Legislature is considering a proposal that would fund IPads for all middle school students in the state. Really! Is that a good idea? Isn’t it likely that politicians are the wrong people to be leading the critical work…
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Recently, I visited a fourth grade science class at Drew Charter School in Atlanta. I was very impressed with how the 4th grade science teacher, Connie Taylor, organized a lesson on Force and Motion. She had structured a series of hands-on activities that students had to complete, three to be exact. The second day of the lesson ended with…
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