by dwalker | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog
The end of the school year is a whirlwind of activity. As a high school principal, these things were uppermost in my mind during the last few weeks of the school year: making sure all graduation ceremony arrangements were complete and that any seniors not passing...
by aperkins | May 27, 2011 | Blog
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...
by dwalker | May 13, 2011 | Blog
This year CTL will complete the fifth and final year in the federal Striving Readers Research Project, one of eight such projects in the nation. For the 21schools in 7 districts, efforts to sustain the use of the school wide PD model, CTL’s Adolescent Literacy Model...
by jmosier | May 10, 2011 | Blog
You are invited to join Roland O’Daniel and me, Jo Ann Mosier, from the CTL for a book study of NCTM’s, Focus in High School Mathematics Reasoning and Sense Making. Given that the April 2011 NCTM conference had numerous sessions on reasoning and sense making with...
by dwalker | Apr 22, 2011 | Blog
This is the fifth in a series of blogs on the role of leadership in achieving school turnaround. These entries are based on the research recommendations published in the IES Practice Guide: Turning Around Chronically Low Performing Schools 2009 by the What Works...
