by rodaniel | Aug 20, 2015 | Blog
Reading with purpose Writing to learn Writing to demonstrate learning Engaging in academic discourse Noting observations Because PBL stresses having students engage as and with experts in the field, CTL’s content literacy framework lends itself to supporting students...
by rodaniel | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog
by dwalker | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog
Carnegie Commons Blog: It’s Complex). The author notes that we use the phrase it’s complicated often in our speech, but what we are really talking about are small barriers that get in the way of our accomplishing something we already know how to do. Changing...
by admin | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog
Creating Sustainable Teacher Career Pathways: A 21st Century Perspective, for example, Dr. Catherine Fisk Natale and others note, “Teacher leadership has been promoted as a means to professionalize teaching and reform schools…but its definition differs widely.” CTL is...
by admin | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog
Rigor Relevance Framework) for many years, providing clients and partners with a tiered approach to school improvement that involves working with administrative levels of support while teachers are engaged in ongoing learning about learning research, instructional...
by rodaniel | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog
On Alex’s first day of Algebra class at his new school, the teacher projected a graph on the screen and asked the students to make a list of everything they notice about the graph. After an appropriate amount of time, she asked the students to stand up with their...
by dwalker | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog
th Anniversary Education Forum. Our hope was that participants would engage in discussion about actions they could take to address these themes and in doing so, improve educational opportunity for students. A few weeks ago I sent to all participants a video...
by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog
When someone asks me why the arts are important to learning, I usually respond by describing my own experience in using the arts to excite learners. One such experience follows. Here is the scene: A narrow, windowless room in an urban middle school, with twelve desks...
by dwalker | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog
What does the future hold for public education, and how can we shape the future to ensure that all our students benefit? A panel of expert educators and policy makers offered their suggestions built around the three themes of CTL’s 20th Anniversary Education Forum and...
by dwalker | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog
While my colleagues and I were planning CTL’s 20th Anniversary Education Forum and Celebration, we recognized that the three themes central to inventing the next 20 years of education—equity, innovation and systems change—were not separate but rather interrelated....
