Welkom bij de AOb Eduwonk elmundo.es. Líder de información en español Practical Theory | A View From the Schoolhouse [This year marked the first graduating class of our second campus – SLA@Beeber. I was honored and thrilled to be asked to be the keynote speaker. It’s been such an incredible experience to watch this group of students and families and educators build this school into something wonderful, and I was so excited to share the day with them. — Chris] To the Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber inaugural class – the Class of 2017 – congratulations! I cannot begin to tell you how much it means to me to be standing in front of you today. And you did not do this alone. And still – there were more. And now – what I want to talk to you about this afternoon is what all this means for the rest of your life. What we build may not be perfect – but it can be beautiful. And that’s what you did. What you did was beautiful. And not just the outcomes – the process matters too – a lot, actually. After all – If it were easy, everyone would do it. You can do it. Think about it – what would have happened if Mr.
Diane Ravitch Website Education Week By Peter Greene June 10, 2015 at 8:41 AM Balancing the Equation: Supply and Demand in Tomorrow's School Choice Marketplaces offers a more nuanced view of a charter-choice landscape than the freemarket acolytes at AEI have presented in the past, but it still reads like an exercise in unicorn farming. By Peter Greene June 3, 2015 at 11:49 AM It's time for the beginning of summer break. That means a time of opportunity for teachers, ranging from the personal to the professional. But the greater availability of teachers also means that summer is a time of opportunity for policy makers and education deep thinkers. By Peter Greene May 31, 2015 at 9:30 AM Charters, data, oxymorons, writing, Wisconsin suckage, sad cybers, and more kerfluffling in New Jersey. By Peter Greene May 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM Teaching is a relationship, and the first rule of relationships is that you have to show up. By Peter Greene May 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM By Peter Greene May 20, 2015 at 8:19 AM
Philadelphia Public School Notebook Jennie's Blog | Reflections on learning and leading. Manssen.nl » Internet & Educatie Common Core Watch Since we at Fordham began reviewing state academic standards in 1997, we have understood—and made clear—that standards alone are insufficient to drive improvements in student achievement. Standards describe the destination, but they don’t chart the journey for leaders, teachers, or schools, which means that for standards to have any impact on what students actually learn, they must influence curriculum decisions, assessments, and accountability. Educators intuitively understand this, but not all policy makers and pundits appear to. The need for standards-aligned curricula is undoubtedly the most cited challenge for states, districts, and schools implementing the Common Core. Yet five years into that implementation, teachers still report scrambling to find high-quality, standards-aligned instructional materials. In Uncommonly Engaging? Here’s what we...