by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Aug 10, 2010 | Blog
Teachers view themselves as actioners, people who implement things and actions to have influence on and impact their clients, students. Those of us who teach focus our efforts on the doing of teaching, the interactions that take place in our classrooms everyday, the...
by dwalker | Aug 3, 2010 | Blog
The new Common Core Standards should help promote deeper student understanding of mathematics concepts and processes. In applying these standards to the classroom, teachers will need to expand their pedagogy in ways that help students learn mathematics at a deeper...
by dwalker | May 21, 2010 | Blog
An important sub-domain of student literacy development is academic dialogue, used to help students verbalize and solidify their learning. Academic dialogue provides an opportunity for students to check their own understanding of new concepts and vocabulary, and to...
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. ...
