by admin | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog
It won’t surprise you to know that communication and collaboration are two 21st Century Skills that I call on every day in my work with CTL, helping to spread the word about our work with schools. I work on print materials, videos and web content, and in all...
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 dperkins | Jan 13, 2014 | Blog
Rigor is a word that gets thrown around in meetings, planning documents and social media amongst educators. But what exactly is rigor? Anyone who has been in education for long can attest to the pervasiveness of buzzwords. Heck there’s even an online Educational...
by aperkins | Jan 10, 2014 | Blog
Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. Over that period of time she has taught a variety of subjects and grade levels, but has always returned to middle...
by dwalker | Dec 18, 2013 | Blog
The graphic shown below, re-tweeted by Mike Paul from Jonathan Brubaker caught my fancy. I liked both the illustrated impact of educational technology from substitution to redefinition, speaking to the power of technology to foster change in classroom practice, and...
by dperkins | Dec 16, 2013 | Blog
Occasionally I come across a teacher who expresses concern about moving toward the ideal of a highly evolved PBL type classroom where students are self-initiating much of their thinking and actions. As teachers many of us are more familiar with a teacher-directed...
by aperkins | Nov 26, 2013 | Blog
Guest Blogger Stella Baker is an English Language Arts teacher at Owsley County Middle School. She has been teaching in Kentucky schools for 29 years. Over that period of time she has taught a variety of subjects and grade levels, but has always returned to middle...
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 dperkins | Nov 13, 2013 | Blog
Please make plans to join us for a Google Hangout panel discussion via our YouTube channel as we bring together four experts to discuss literacy in the 21st Century. We’ll explore new research showing a major shift from reading to writing in recent years and...
