Ensuring Intentional Innovations
Innovation, autonomy, and flexibility are just some of the buzz words resonating through our nation’s education reform efforts to provide more local control to schools and...
27 February, 2012
Masonry
Teacher Evaluation: Soft Skills for Hard Moments
Teachers: What can we learn from an evaluation? It has been truly exciting this year to be able to spend some time taking a...
13 February, 2012
Our Visit to the U.S. Department of Education
Dru Davison and I were invited to represent Hope Street Group to interview Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan about teacher evaluation. What an...
12 February, 2012
The State of the Union – Teachers Matter
The most powerful words from the State of the Union? “Teachers Matter” and “teach with creativity and passion.” The creativity and passion in...
30 January, 2012
Whole Child Reform: The Easy to Follow Recipe
In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Outliers,” he takes a close look at the many details behind successful people. In looking at highly successful people...
24 January, 2012
2b or not 2b…That is the Question: But Are Standardized Tests Asking the Right Ones?
Standardized testing has become a hot topic of conversation everywhere from the teachers lounge to local P.T.A. meetings. The news is filled with...
18 January, 2012
Dollars: It isn’t just a question of how much
How does budget transparency, or the lack thereof, impact school and classroom level programming for students? Across states in our nation, property owners pay...
10 January, 2012
A Teacher’s Opportunity to be Uniquely Involved with RTTT-Early Learning Challenge
Being a Reading Specialist who has worked with inner city early care providers, I was very excited to hear U.S. Department of Education's...
02 January, 2012
Alternative Certification: Is it enough?
Is Alternative Certification Enough? A generation ago, teachers became teachers by the same path that nurses became nurses - they attended colleges, majored in...
19 December, 2011