I was recently introduced to the work of Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist, who is able to make his self invisible through the use of paint. He spends hours having himself painted and is then dropped into a scene where he is camouflaged by the paint. His current exhibition, The Invisible Man, is a testimony […]
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 Atlanta with administrators accused of actually changing student test answer sheets. Previously this year, Washington D.C. […]
I have been positively wrapped in the business of school turnaround for the last few weeks in preparation for the TN High Priority Schools Conference, the KY Bridging Event (for chronically under-performing schools), and in my own doctoral study on educational leadership. A story that I’ve kept filed away in my back pocket for months […]
If, like me, you count among the simple pleasures of life browsing the shelves of a brick and mortar bookstore, you were deeply disappointed to learn recently that the Borders chain is going out of business. Here in Louisville, the loss of Borders is a double-whammy: The chain had moved into the physical spaces once […]
This is Part III of a series dedicated to making the transition to Common Core State Standards and preparing for the Literacy component of the new PARCC assessment. Previous posts have focused on gaining familiarity with CCSS (Prepping for PARCC, Part I) and building understanding of sample assessment items (Prepping for PARCC, Part II). This […]
In my November blog entry Using Text Evidence to Support Responses I address instructional Shift 4: Text Based Answers. This shift is one area we will need to address in order to deal with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and attend to college and career readiness. I’ll continue that conversation by […]
In my last post (Prepping for PARCC, Part I) I referenced a conference session I had attended in search of the most up-to-date answers about the upcoming literacy component of the PARCC assessment. I have pages of notes and links and have tried to synthesize that information into this three-part blog series addressing the following […]
