Posted in Policy, Practice on Mar 20th, 2009 15 Comments »
I am absolutely convinced that teachers developing solid relationships with students, and encouraging students to develop similar caring relationships with their peers, is a key to a successful classroom.
During my career as a community organizer, we used to say that successful organizing was just another word for relationship-building.
I believe President Obama, a former community organizer, [...]
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This is the first post in a two-part summary of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s 2009 annual conference. My personal reflections on learning will come in part two. I also have a few interviews and session summaries (for those presentations I didn’t live-blog) that I’ll be incorporating into blog content later on. [...]
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This session (the last I’ll mention here before posting a conference summary) was presented by Quinn Stanley from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and was based on his unpublished dissertation. Although I teach in a regular ed setting, at least half of my students in any given year are suffering from diagnosed [...]
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Posted in Research on Mar 15th, 2009 No Comments »
These are the final live-blog notes (from the 3 pm session on Sunday, March 15).
I’ll be posting summaries of additional sessions as well as a reflection on the conference in the next few days. More ASCD interviews and musings will be posted on my own blog, The Cornerstone.
ASCD: 3:00 Sesson
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Posted in Research on Mar 15th, 2009 No Comments »
This session is presented by Betty K. Garner, Ed.D. and is based on her book “Getting to ‘I Got It!’: Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn”.
ASCD: Getting to “I Got It!”
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