by rodaniel | Apr 20, 2010 | Blog
One of the great things I get to do is to help teachers plan. I don’t necessarily help them plan individual lessons anymore, as much as I do help them plan long-term routines. I wrote a post three years ago on my own blog that discussed planning for instruction with...
by admin | Mar 16, 2010 | Blog
Academic Dialogue isn’t the teacher asking questions and then calling on students one at a time. Students need to publically communicate their ideas and work to help each other as well as respond to the teacher. Creating a community of learners is the key to rigorous...
by rodaniel | Mar 12, 2010 | Blog
I came across the Every Trails app for my iPhone and thought it had some potential as a tool for tracking my workouts. I had no idea! 19 Mile Park Loop Map your trip with EveryTrail It’s incredibly cool. I love the multiple ways of looking at the map data....
by admin | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog
I can still sing the lyrics to a song written to the tune of the Notre Dame Victory March by my third grade teacher, Barbara Goldberg, for a class play entitled “Paul in Foodland,” built around our science curriculum on food and health: “March, march...
by admin | Feb 19, 2010 | Blog
Last week, I attended events in Frankfort Kentucky for Arts Day 2010. Even though the day turned out to bitterly cold, windy and snow- and ice-packed, a couple hundred of us die-hards showed to support the arts in education and in the daily lives of all Kentuckians. ...
