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The second article is Education Week series, The Future of School Reform, was written by Robert B. Schwartz, Ben Levin, and Adam Gamoran. Their article, Learning from Abroad, focuses on what the education system in the United States would look like if we followed the lead of other high-performing school systems around the world, such…
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Education Week is running a series of articles on The Future of School Reform (blog link), a collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. There will be seven articles in the series. Having read the first four, I thought I would provide a summary of what I learned from each article. The first article,…
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I have been reading articles in JSD’s April 2o11 edition devoted to professional learning journeys of teachers, schools, and districts. I want to share a summary of what I have learned from these readings, which will in no way be news to most readers of educational literature. It is no secret that many teachers crave…
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Problem-solving is one of the 21st Century skills that we believe is important for students to learn. However, there is considerable debate about whether problem-solving is a “20th Century skill that is merely being repackaged in the 21st Century conversation?” Some questions to consider: (1) how should we go about effectively teaching problem-solving skills in the classroom;…
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The last keynote of the 2011 ASCD Annual Conference in San Francisco, was Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, professor from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, has authored numerous books and has spent a portion of her career examining school culture, helping schools understand themselves. Most recently, Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot spent a few…
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