by admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Blog
Before the polar vortex created icy roads and closed schools across Kentucky I worked with students and teachers in Jackson County, Kentucky to provide job-embedded PD as part of the CTL Artful Reading project. As part of this work students and teachers are learning...
by admin | Jan 16, 2014 | Blog
Writers, philosophers, and mystics know that naming a concept or abstract reality puts limits on our ability to truly comprehend it. By labeling things, we attempt to contain them, define them, and compartmentalize them. An educational term that everyone uses but few...
by admin | Nov 25, 2013 | Blog
CTL Director of Programs Roland O’Daniel recently received a Mathematics Education Service and Achievement (MESA) Award from the Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (KCTM) for outstanding contributions to mathematics instruction statewide. Speaking about...
by admin | Nov 4, 2013 | Blog
It will take longer than 40 minutes to write this blog. It will take longer than 90 minutes to write this blog. In fact, I’ve been working on this blog for something like 23 years, when high-stakes testing first found its way into education policy and into my ELA...
by admin | Oct 30, 2013 | Blog
Recently I visited the Denver Art Museum and had an experience that has stayed with me. It was the Red, White and Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870 exhibition of Navajo chief blankets. An arresting aesthetic experience. What made it that way- why does it...
