I recently worked with a school that had asked me to help out with professional development. Before I arrived at the school, I asked my contact to provide me with
The most frequent concerns I hear about students’ technology use at school focus on their lack of, well, focus. Technology administrators choose from any number of online platforms with which
From the “Sometimes You Read Something That Makes You Want to Scream ‘THIS!’ Department” I give you Sean Michael Morris: “This is the right of agency. It does not give
As Abraham Lincoln made abundantly clear: we not only need to think anew but, equally important, we need to act anew. There has been plenty of “thinking” about new directions
By Matthew Kressy & Tom Woelper, New England Innovation Academy When we began envisioning the curriculum for the New England Innovation Academy, one of the elements core to our requirements
In March 2020, the first schools closed. Since then, the debate has focused on whether and how schools should reopen. While the risks to keeping schools closed are great (such
Scrutiny of College Admissions has been intense recently and it is therefore important to summarize first some of the controversies, particularly around test scores, for context. The standardized testing non-profits
Late last year, another shot was fired in the perennial war on the role of the classics in the high school English curriculum. According to Megan Cox Gurdon, the Wall
This is my third post in a series looking at assessment and how the questions are increasingly being asked about how, when, and why we assess in schools. I will
Republished from Heather Clayton Staker’s website, Ready to Blend. Heather Clayton Staker|3/9/2021 I’ve restructured this podcast as a class, so that each episode going forward will teach a skill to