by dwalker | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog
Conducting classroom walkthroughs is a useful strategy for gaining an overall picture of instruction in the building. While brief in nature, walkthrough visits yield patterns of data in terms of the instructional strategies that teachers use, levels of student...
by dwalker | Aug 30, 2011 | Blog
It seems to me we have two forces shaping educational policy: one is the call to innovate, reflected in the USDOE’s Investing in Innovation (i3) grants and in calls from the US Secretary of Education to seek innovative solutions to persistent problems of student...
by dwalker | Aug 16, 2011 | Blog
Two large cheating scandals have re-opened the discussion about the impact of standardized testing and high-stakes and accountability. Both Philadelphia and Atlanta have reported cheating: in Philadelphia to help students cope with and be successful on tests; and in...
by dwalker | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog
The end of the school year is a whirlwind of activity. As a high school principal, these things were uppermost in my mind during the last few weeks of the school year: making sure all graduation ceremony arrangements were complete and that any seniors not passing...
by dwalker | May 13, 2011 | Blog
This year CTL will complete the fifth and final year in the federal Striving Readers Research Project, one of eight such projects in the nation. For the 21schools in 7 districts, efforts to sustain the use of the school wide PD model, CTL’s Adolescent Literacy Model...
