13 Oct Rethinking Professional Development
I am cold. Someone is speaking in the front of the room. The PowerPoint presentation lights up the dimmed room like a nightlight in a darkened hallway. I wonder why...
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23 Sep Helping Culinary Students Reach Their Utmost Potential
“Come on, Chef Poole, you know I can’t afford to go to college.” Those are not the words a high school culinary instructor wants to hear from one of his most...
15 Sep What I Learned in My Graduate Education
What I learned in my graduate education program: if you want to be a teacher, watch a teacher. Let them watch you. A lot. Honestly, I can’t remember more than a...
26 Aug Independent Evaluation Highlights Positive Impacts of Hope Street Group Kentucky State Teacher Fellows Program
August 26, 2014 An independent evaluation conducted by Policy Studies Associates, Inc. determined that the first year of the Hope Street Group Kentucky State Teacher Fellows Program provided teachers with “a diverse, unique...
12 Aug #SupportTheCore = Supporting Our Teachers
I have had more than my share of memorable moments as a kindergarten teacher, but one sticks out in particular, when I helped open a small charter school several years...
07 Aug Common Core Can Develop Our Students’ Global Competency
In my classroom, a poster with a map of North America states “we are not alone.” Every day, I remind my students that they are, in fact, “not alone in...