by dwalker | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog
Everywhere you turn there is information about the Common Core. Educational reformers are pinning their hopes on this new curriculum framework, that by focusing on depth instead of breadth, and by articulating a set of rigorous standards for student learning,...
by dwalker | Aug 30, 2011 | Blog
It seems to me we have two forces shaping educational policy: one is the call to innovate, reflected in the USDOE’s Investing in Innovation (i3) grants and in calls from the US Secretary of Education to seek innovative solutions to persistent problems of student...
by admin | Mar 29, 2011 | Blog
In my last post, School Goals: Impediments or Enablers? I references an article from Leader IQ titled Are Smart Goals Dumb? The article’s author argues that traditional goals built around elements that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and...
by admin | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Those of us who work in the non-profit sector have known for a while now that much can be learned from the business sector in terms of management and administration, planning and the effective execution of practices aimed at educating all students. I recently read an...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | Blog
This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. –Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son (c. 1740s) I recently purchased...
