Recent Posts from EdSpeak
Measuring The Creative Mindset of Students; Performance Task Assessment
I will be giving a workshop at The World Alliance for Arts Education Virtual Summit on October 13, 4pm! Sign up below: LIVE: Measuring the Creative Mindset of Students; Performance Task Assessment Robert... READ MORE
Will Standardization Give Way To Personalization?
Two former Boston School Principals took issue last week with a Harvard Professor who was promoting personalization: As longtime school leaders, we’re delighted that Paul Reville has discovered the potential of personalization to... READ MORE
Supporting Students in Deeper Learning Competencies
Performance Assessments Performance assessments are part of a high-quality assessment system. In the new K-3 Foundations School, only the state exams given to third graders are standardized formats that ask students to check... READ MORE
We Need to Unify
If there is one thing that still resonates from September 11, it is the fear that we all felt, and the hope that we could pull together to fight this fear. The unity... READ MORE
A Workingman’s Holiday Turns into Labor Day
How did this Labor Day get started? No one person is responsible but several events lead up to President Grover Cleveland’s signing a law in 1894 to memorialize this workingman’s day. The conditions... READ MORE
Promote Collaborative Teacher Training
In order to disrupt the inequitable process of education that, for example, produces only a third of our students who read on grade level by third grade, we need ideas that improve teacher... READ MORE
