Postcard from the Arts Education Partnership Spring 2011 National Forum (Reprinted with permission, National Endowment for the Arts, Facebook page) The following post is by Sarah Cunningham, Director of Arts Education, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC. ________________________________________________________ The Arts Education Partnership Spring 2011 National Forum brought together educators from around the U.S. to […]
I am a news junkie. I soak up news, hard copy and virtual, scan news breaks, scour features and profiles that outline and probe the characters and issues that shape the local and national agenda, and seek information that reflects and illuminates the arguments that directly influence life throughout the United States and the world. The connections between […]
In January 2009 The National Center for Education Achievement (NCEA) published its research on higher performing school systems. The NCEA Core Practice Framework: An Organizing Guide to Sustained School Improvement is designed to help educators and policymakers develop and support a coherent, comprehensive, and sustained approach toward these efforts. The Framework challenges school systems to […]
In my last post, I laid out a simple process for getting students familiar with your textbook before you ask them to use it. In a way, we can think of that process as the foundational “pre-reading” strategy that goes global, not specific to one piece of reading, but generalized to the entire textbook. Now […]
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 […]
