Posted in Policy on Apr 27th, 2008 No Comments »
What are you doing next week? I’ll be at budget meetings. Why? Well, this is the message from my superintendent on our district Web site:
Superintendent’s message (SCUSD)
Lots of doom and gloom about how can we be expected to continue to improve education (and test scores) if you keep cutting out budget. I work in what [...]
Posted in Practice on Apr 27th, 2008 17 Comments »
Bill Ferriter, I think, writes one of the most thought-provoking blogs around on education. I’d really encourage you to subscribe to it if you haven’t already. A couple of his posts have prompted me to write ones of my own here, and now he’s done it again…
Bill writes about Carl Chew, the teacher [...]
Posted in Research on Apr 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Just a quick post to add to the recent conversation here. I know I’ve been beating this drum a lot lately, but only because these different studies and reports have been popping up and coming to my attention. Here is the latest: Poverty May Impair Growth Of Brain - by Lex Alexander - News & Record - Greensboro, NC
”Poverty can [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2008 5 Comments »
“It’s no cop-out to acknowledge the effects of socioeconomic disparities on student learning. Rather, it’s a vital step to closing the achievement gap.”
So begins the article on the ASCD web site:Whose Problem Is Poverty? by Richard Rothstein This might be a “must read” for teachers in Title 1 schools. Mr. Rothstein explains why students from low socio-economic [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice on Apr 15th, 2008 12 Comments »
Part One: Differentiate This! Why?
was published in Creating Lifelong Learners
OK, we agree (or most of us do anyway) that we need to tailor our instruction to the students in our classroom.
We cannot teach effectively by planning lessons in isolation without considering the interaction between what we’ve planned and the students in our room, [...]
