CTL staff member Barbara Myerson Katz asked in her June blog entry Memories of Summer Reading and Writing, “Do you have memories of summer reading and writing? How can educators and parents ensure that the children of the early 21st century have great memories of summer reading and writing?” The summer weeks have been full […]
Several months ago I wrote an entry called Leading Out Loud. I spotlighted several important (and sometimes underestimated) ways teachers can walk as leaders in their day to day work. In that entry, I promised to revisit each of the recommendations, and so that is where this story picks up. Forgive me for not going […]
A view from the field: Guest blogger Nicole Ritchie shares her experiences. This month brings to an end a three-year Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Science Partnership grant with the Knott County School District and with partner Morehead State University. During this past year of the grant we had a new science coach, Nicole Ritchie. […]
One of my fondest summer memories is of going with my mom to the branch library not far from our home in suburban Philadelphia. We’d generally go in the evening, while it was still light out but not quite as hot and sticky as during the day. We would climb the steps and enter the […]
Yesterday a group of us from CTL visited the Columbus Signature Academy (CSA) in Indiana. CSA is part of the New Tech Network of schools that are organized around project-based learning principles, one-to-one use of technology, and culture of collaboration and flexibility modeled after an office environment. There were many things that impressed us, but […]
Building on this previous blog entry by Mary Rudd I’d like to touch on the issue of how we might use the Common Core Standards and Project Based Learning to engage students. As this video shows people will do the previously unthinkable if the right buttons of engagement are pressed. The big question then is how […]
I recently found myself in a packed conference session full of school administrators trying to get the most up-to-date answers about the upcoming literacy component of the PARCC assessment that will be rocking the socks off our schools come 2014. It seems that everybody knows just enough to be really worried about the rigors of […]
