by rodaniel | Dec 3, 2010 | Blog
I’ve recently been revisiting several blog posts and resources that I wrote in the last couple of years. My renewed focus on writing in math class is a result of reading several articles (Learning from Weblogs, Reducing Gender Achievement Gap, & Talkback Project)...
by admin | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
In my last post Why Support the Arts? I noted six points summarized from an article “Willingham: Six Practical Reasons Why Arts Education is Not a Mere Luxury” (Washington Post, November 23, 2009) by cognitive scientist Dan Willingham. Developmental psychologist...
by aperkins | May 14, 2010 | Blog
We all know the nursery rhyme that suggests boys are made from unpleasant things like snakes, snails and puppy dog tails while girls are made from pleasant things like sugar and spice. The nursery rhyme, aside from the teasing, points out that boys and girls are...
by rodaniel | May 4, 2010 | Blog
Dan Meyer presented at the TEDxNYED conference recently and delivered this talk on teaching problem solving in US schools: Let me say I couldn’t agree with him more! His approach to developing problem solving is simple. Let students focus on figuring out what...
by admin | Apr 30, 2010 | Blog
I recently learned of the following information and feel that it builds nicely on my last two posts: Do the Arts Make Kids Smarter? and The Arts Are Good For… As I have written in earlier posts, studies continue to show the value of the arts as basic in education....
