A Principal's Reflections: Looking at Teacher Accountability Through a New Lens. Nine Tenets of Passion-Based Learning. Simple Ways to Cultivate Happiness in Schools. In my last post I suggested that equitable schools are those that contribute to happiness in children.
Now I'd like to offer some suggestions for actions that school leaders and teachers can take in order to cultivate happier schools. 1. Slow Down When we slow down, we notice more, we appreciate more, we take stock of relationships, learning, and goals. Everyone can benefit from slowing down: students, teachers, and administrators. Bill Gates Discovers Money Cannot Buy Teachers.
By Anthony Cody – Sunday’s Seattle Times tells us of a strange problem encountered by the richest man in the world.
He has discovered that his money is not working its magic in education — teachers are not for sale. The Gates Foundation has spent the past decade promoting hard hitting education reforms. Organizations they fund have conducted research, lobbied politicians, and advanced policies that have brought us Value Added teacher and principal evaluations, charter school expansion, Teach For America corps members, and merit pay. (21) Facebook. Top 10 Influential Personalities for Today's Education System. Education is an ever-changing environment that must adapt to the students' needs and society's demands.
How to Study in Six Simple Steps. InspirationInspiration. A Nice story to convey how hatred affects you .
A kindergarten teacher decided to let her class play a game. She told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Pam Allyn: Six Messages for a Child. As an educator and advocate for children, I get many queries after tragedy, especially about how we can help our children cope with what they have heard and seen.
I hope these simple messages help. Be the Change you Want to See in Education. 308 Flares Twitter 62 Facebook 191 Google+ 26 LinkedIn 29 inShare29 308 Flares × Schools Must Change Teachers are seeking early retirement because they cannot take the school system any longer.
New education theory in Iowa: Teach kids at their own pace. CLIVE, Iowa | A small group met in a conference room in an otherwise unremarkable suburban office park this month to plot how to blow up Iowa's 180-year-old public education system.
The group included state schools chief Jason Glass and a dozen other education folks from across the state, all of them adherents — to varying degrees — of what's called competency-based education. It's a clumsy term that many in education circles refer to as "CBE" or "CBL," for competency-based learning, which essentially means pushing students to learn at their own pace. That means, says consultant and former Grant Wood Area Education Agency administrator Trace Pickering, not all 8-year-olds in the third grade are working on the same math sheets at the same time. Maya Angelou Speaks to Educators. Maya Angelou addresses ASCD Conference in Chicago, 3/17/13 (photo by the author) “I’ll be 85 next month – and I’m already feeling it,” Maya Angelou told a packed ballroom at the ASCD Conference today.
Delivering her keynote from a wheelchair, Angelou was nonetheless energetic and inspiring. Her address tied together a number of experiences from her childhood and adulthood, with the common thread of the power of education and caring adults. Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. National Day Of Unplugging 2013: How To Incorporate Mindfulness Practices Into Your Everyday Life. Do you respond to the beep, ping, rattle and shake of your gadgets on command?
You may be suffering from digital distress -- or maybe even a case of Social Media Anxiety Disorder -- and you might be in need of a digital purge. Sound like something you could benefit from? This Friday, March 1, marks the fourth annual National Day of Unplugging. Why I Stopped Telling (Guest Post by Abby Norman) Today’s guest post by Abby Norman is one I’m really excited about.
I think sometimes we exoticize “the poor” as people in huts in foreign countries and she brings this home–these are the kids that go to school with my kids. She is one of the like-minded writers whose work I have been thrilled to discover and I’m so glad she agreed to share her experiences with you. I spent the first three years of my teaching career working at a school that is politely categorized as “high-needs.” What that really means is that 99% of the student population is minority, 99% of the population receives free lunch, and the vast majority of the students were unable to do the things the government says they have to do by the time they get to a certain grade.
It means that there is never enough. Environmental Factors Impact Childrens Ability to Learn. By Saul Wagner Most people know that the children's physical classroom environment plays a major role in their ability to learn. Classroom design is important to students' success in the classroom. But what about other aspects of the environment such as lighting, temperature, noise, etc?
Let’s take a look at how these factors impact children in a learning environment. Impact of Lighting on Ability to Learn Having a source of good lighting is critical in the classroom for many obvious reasons. The Role Of Reading In The Age Of Constant Digital Distraction. While some people still entertain themselves with the predictable mudfight of “ebook vs paper book”, I find another question far more interesting, namely the role of reading in the age of continuous partial attention.
Who Said That Language Learning Shouldn’t Be Fun? When I look at successful online teachers or edupreneurs, how they choose and present their materials, I see a distinct pattern. Whether it’s Jason R. Big Questions in ELT. Response: Best Ways to Prepare Our Students for CCSS in Language Arts - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. More Questions about the Common Core: Response to Marc Tucker.
I have been waiting for a serious conversation about the sensibility of the Common Core State Standards Initiative with its staunch supporters. I am thus very pleased to read Marc Tucker’s response to my five questions about the Common Core. I am honored that Tucker considers my questions worth responding to. His response, while thoughtful and more nuanced than the usual slogan-shouting, emotion-arousing, and fear-mongering evidence-deprived commercials put forth by some instigators and supporters of the Common Core like this one, did not really answer my questions.
Are you as well-read as a 10th grader? Take our quiz. - "The Odyssey," by Homer. Ms. Katie's Ramblings. Pupils 'should get lessons in manners and punctuality' How to design breakthrough inventions - 60 Minutes. Empathy and Compassion. Fostering Empathy in Teens. Home or away?;The next way;Millennium edition - magazine article. Comment:1 average rating | Comments (1)Last Updated:28 December, 2012Section:magazine article. What The Future Was Supposed To Be Like. The Anarchist Soccer Mom. 20 Game-Changing Technology Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level. International Home. No Significant Difference - Presented by WCET. The language of dissent. Language matters to Lea Rosenberg. The former English teacher and high school principal who is now Deputy Director General of International Relations and UNESCO at Israel’s Ministry of Education recently made an impassioned appeal to fellow education policy makers that they, essentially, watch their language when talking about education.
Using the terminology of other disciplines to discuss education policy, Rosenberg argues, does a disservice to education. California's English language learners getting stuck in schools' remedial programs. Melanie Perez wishes she could have played the saxophone. Octavio Reyes would have liked to take a computer science class.
Education in Two Worlds: Infinite Campus ... No Place to Hide. Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students' Reading Habits - Wired Campus. Denver — Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too. CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by big publishers, announced on Wednesday a new tool to help professors and others measure students’ engagement with electronic course materials. When students use print textbooks, professors can’t track their reading. Wentzville students stack up competition : Sj. A stack of cups is helping students in the Wentzville School District stay physically and mentally fit.
Several elementary schools in the district have organized clubs for speed stacking, a national competitive cup stacking sport. Newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/downloads/TJ_vol3-3_Atesoglu Russell.pdf. Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: The Power of Appreciation. In this nine-part series, we will look at important factors that influence the happiness and social and emotional learning of elementary school age children. These factors are very useful in helping students learn, manage emotions and increase empathy. Each blog features one letter of the acronym HAPPINESS: