Posted in Policy, Practice, Research on Jun 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
I was having a brief discussion on Skype today with Scott McLeod where I shared some things that are going down at my school site, and he ended up asking me a hard, but good questions about it. Here is the background…
Next year, my school site will be getting “help” from outsiders. There is displeasure [...]
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 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, [...]
Posted in Early Childhood/Kindergarten, Policy on Apr 13th, 2008 No Comments »
We seem to be on a kindergarten theme here so to spread it around, I’ve put my next post on this topic on The Blog of Ms. Mercer, where I discuss many of the kinder policies that make their reform more pressing to my mind than universal pre-school. Hope to see you there!
Posted in Policy, Practice, Research, Theory on Apr 12th, 2008 3 Comments »
Since being named a blogger that Deserves a Bigger Audience, I’ve taken to reading eduwonkette, which received the same accolade. I thought of two pieces recently when reading posts here from Doug Noon, and Michaele Sommerville. Michaele thought I was eating too much paste, or something when I said I was going to tie in [...]
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