Heidi Hayes Jacobs on Curriculum 21: Resources, Key Points, Action Items, and Conversation Starters Posted by Jonathan Martin under Uncategorized Leave a Comment A bracing, challenging, informative talk from Heidi Hayes Jacob enlivened our afternoon. What year are we preparing our students for? I embedded below (after “more”) her Ted Talk; I hope you find these resources, suggested action items, and conversation starters and you reflect on her talk. Resources, Links, & Key Points Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World WHOIS Search for Domain Registration Information Announcing a great feature for WHOIS users You can now start a WHOIS query directly in your browser! Use the format: www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/netsol.com and you'll come directly to our results page. Stay tuned for more useful features coming soon to WHOIS! What is WHOIS? When you register a domain name, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) requires your domain name registrar to submit your personal contact information to the WHOIS database.
The Value of Piloting Change « Jigsaw Learning Change in schools is never easy. As we critically examine “how we do things” and look at sometimes fundamental changes to existing practices, adversity is going to arise. When looking to initiate changes, whether it is implementing collaborative team meetings, investigating new assessments or assessment practices or any other myriad of changes that could impact school-wide structures and practices, you are going to encounter staff members that fall into four categories. Douglas Reeves, in his book Leading Change in your School (2009), gives us some data to help explain these categories, which we have classified as champions, early adopters, late adopters and opponents. Champions – Reeves suggests that 17% of teachers fall into this category. They are the ones willing to lead the change initiative.
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week- now let’s make others appreciate you!! Let me start this post by thanking each of you in the field of teaching for your service. I really do appreciate that, it involves more sacrifice than most people realize or appreciate. Teachers give up countless hours with their own families to spend it with the children of others and to improve the lives of children that are not theirs. It truly is a career of service to improve people’s lives and our society. God bless you for your work. A Schoolboy and His Teacher by Paul Gooddy
Standards for Mathematical Practice The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students. These practices rest on important “processes and proficiencies” with longstanding importance in mathematics education. The first of these are the NCTM process standards of problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, representation, and connections. The second are the strands of mathematical proficiency specified in the National Research Council’s report Adding It Up: adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, conceptual understanding (comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations and relations), procedural fluency (skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently and appropriately), and productive disposition (habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile, coupled with a belief in diligence and one’s own efficacy). Standards in this domain:
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Wikis: Pulling It All Together Online Collaboration | Feature Wikis: Pulling It All Together Online Elementary teachers are using wikis in and out of the classroom. An open letter to administrators... Dear administrators, We have a lot of respect for what you do. Your job is extremely difficult, and there are lots of aspects of your job that we don't fully understand. Your ability to lead an entire staff and student body is frankly amazing, and more importantly, you always seem cool, calm and collected. Overview - The Reading The mission of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is to help young people become avid and skilled readers, writers, and inquirers. We accomplish this goal through research, curriculum development, and through working shoulder-to-shoulder with students, teachers, and school leaders. The organization has developed state-of-the-art tools and methods for teaching reading and writing, for using performance assessments and learning progressions to accelerate progress, and for literacy-rich content-area instruction. Thousands of teachers regard the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project as a continual source of professional renewal and education. Well over 170,000 teachers have attended our week-long institutes, and over 4,000 participants return each year to annual Saturday Reunions. The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project was founded and is directed by Lucy Calkins, The Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College.