by dperkins | Dec 7, 2012 | Blog
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...
by admin | Nov 16, 2012 | Blog
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, there were several members of the faculty who were wildly popular for their lectures: Among them were Nicholas Riasanovsky in Russian history, Alfred Rieber in European history, Martin Seligman, then a...
by dwalker | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog
The impetus behind the development of common core standards was threefold: to hold schools responsible for fewer curricular objectives but taught in depth and mastered by students; to increase challenge and ensure that students were engaged in a rigorous curriculum;...
by dwalker | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog
Conducting classroom walkthroughs is a useful strategy for gaining an overall picture of instruction in the building. While brief in nature, walkthrough visits yield patterns of data in terms of the instructional strategies that teachers use, levels of student...
by admin | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog
A view from the field: Guest blogger Danny Osborne shares. This month brings to an end a five-year National a Striving Readers Grant. Recently I invited one of the participating principals to share his experiences and how his role as a principal has been impacted by...
