One of the most successful arts funded research programs was the arts integrated curriculum model called Picture Writing/Image Making (PW/IM). The rest of today’s blog
Emerging Performance Assessment Performance assessments have emerged as a school reform strategy because they collect better evidence of student learning and because they help guide
Today’s blog is about a literature review for the characteristics of effective professional development as researched by the The Learning Policy Institute. But I want
In this new world of online learning, what evidence do we have of student learning? Teachers have heroically transitioned to online learning, produced curriculum, assigned homework, collected
As I was walking the dog yesterday in Florida I passed by a buffet restaurant called the Carving Station. The owner was outside cleaning up
In the evaluation of a faculty in any school, we look for teacher quality. We look for how long teachers have been at the school,
On April 9, 2020, the New York TImes published an editorial titled: “The America We Need.” The Editors pointed to an America that still has
Central Purposes of the Standards “The central purposes of education standards are to identify the learning that we want for all of our students and
I am aware of being caught up in history every now and again. A week ago Friday was my last day at the office and
It is important today to acknowledge the spread of COVID-19 and its effect upon schools and families. Nothing like this has happened in modern times,
Last month, the state of California agreed to pay $53 million to 75 schools who have the most students in third grade attaining the lowest scores in
One of the tough parts of Black History month is reviewing the damage that was done during the Tulsa Race Massacre. Starting on May 31,
If we think of how some of the classrooms function in our country, we notice the tension between individual vs. group learning. On the one
Reading is so important to a great life. As many people have echoed, learning to read turns into reading to learn. So interestingly, we know
Whenever I think of children’s needs, I start with Maslow. In 1943 he ordered the needs from most motivational, such as the basic need for
Multiple Measures of Accountability There are lots of policy issues around education to pay attention to but today I think it is important to look
School Reform Models For the last 100 years, school reform models in the United States have been hotly debated. The basic premise for how schools
Something has changed. Somehow the formula for succeeding in America shifted in ways that are easy to feel but hard to discern even for experts.
Today is a short blog and highlights a model for elementary schools that others may want to investigate: The Opal School is partnered with a museum and
The Data of Well-Being It is important to educators to understand the effect of our education process on our students. What does it mean to