In my last blog Are English Language Arts Teachers Ready? I address one instructional shift, Shift 3: Staircase of Complexity, ELA teachers will need to make in order to wholly address the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and attend to college and career readiness. I’ll continue that conversation by moving to Shift […]
This is the third in a series of blogs about school leadership and the Common Core Standards. The first blog explored the idea of implementing yet another reform and how school leaders can foster a sense of enthusiasm and openness. The second blog focused on the English Language Arts core standards in particular, and how […]
School leaders face a significant challenge in implementing new reforms, which seem to come with increasing frequency. While the Common Core Standards hold promise for shaping a deeper, more thoughtful curriculum for students in English Language Arts (and Mathematics), they arrive on top of several decades of reforms and innovations which can leave faculties wondering […]
I am a first generation college graduate that grew up in severe city poverty. I wasn’t one of these children that didn’t know they were poor; I knew at a very young age. I was aware of labels that people shared to describe me from the time I was five. My mother didn’t know how […]
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…
I write this post in a week when it’s been announced that a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives has cut the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts by…
School leaders can further students’ academic success by modeling learning behaviors like goal-setting, problem-solving, and ongoing literacy development.
