by admin | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog
In a recent English Language Arts academy facilitated by CTL, teachers used a critical friends protocol similar to the one show below to provide feedback to each other after three days of creating inquiry-based units. Among the interesting comments shared was this...
by admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Blog
Well, in the true spirit of the speed at which technology evolves my May blog post has become obsolete. In that post I visited Google Art Project, iteration 2012, extolled its virtues and shared a screencast to help folks navigate the site. Last month the site was...
by admin | Aug 2, 2013 | Blog
A few weeks ago my husband and I had the great parental pleasure of seeing our now grown son honored by an organization that had been particularly important to him growing up. Seventeen summers ago, he had the opportunity to attend the Kentucky Governor’s School for...
by dwalker | Jul 9, 2013 | Blog
As a high school administrator—first an assistant principal and then a principal—I gave a lot of thought to the kind of behaviors I wanted to model for students. Students rarely see their administrators as full human beings who studied in high school, completed...
by admin | Jun 21, 2013 | Blog
This spring and summer as a partner on the GEAR UP Kentucky state college readiness grant, CTL is leading a series of face-to-face and virtual leadership academies for teachers and administrators in participating schools. The work provides opportunities for...
by dperkins | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog
Our students are growing up in an intensely stimulating time. As technology races forward many of our habits are changing but are our teaching practices? As an instructional architect I place a high value on “slow thinking” but are we exploring the power...
by rodaniel | Jun 14, 2013 | Blog
I captured some ideas about writing in math classes several years ago on a wiki for a class I was taking (Teaching Transactive Writing). It is interesting as I looked through my Google Analytics account today that that wiki continues to be one of the most visited...
by dwalker | Jun 4, 2013 | Blog
An important part of building a college-going culture in schools is engaging parents in helping their students imagine a larger future for themselves, one that is not limited by economic status or parents’ level of education. Starting with the assumption that all...
by admin | May 31, 2013 | Blog
Like many educators, the subject of school comes up in conversation in all kinds of settings. Recently, I was sitting at a wedding reception, enjoying the blissful scene of the newly-married couple showing off their tutored first dance when my cousin-in-law’s wife sat...
by dperkins | May 28, 2013 | Blog
Last week Google announced a slew of new features and updates to its increasingly ubiquitous platform at annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. As a heavy Google user I’m excited about most of the changes and anticipate the continued growth of...
