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 Southworth Robert A. Southworth, Jr., Ed.D., The … Continued
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 improve our schools and student learning (“America’s … Continued
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 the correct answers from those provided by … Continued
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 we all felt was unbelievable. We had … Continued
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 in schools that help our teachers work … Continued
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 training. Currently teachers are trained at university … Continued
We are continuing our fight against the COVID 19 virus, but evidence from science continues to be questioned, when on the contrary, the real problem is not the science, but the acceptance of the science by people in our country … Continued
As the pandemic took hold, more than 1 million children did not enroll in local schools. Many of them were the most vulnerable: 5-year-olds in low-income neighborhoods. New York Times, August 7, 2021 The Pandemic’s toll is vast. The closing … Continued
Whenever some teacher approaches me to ask about starting a school, I always ask them three questions: Who Wants to Start A School? Most educators have had the thought about starting a school. This may have started as a frustration … Continued
Problems of Practice We need to change the way teachers work in the United States. Right now we have a model for their work that does not radically improve student learning. A simple analysis tells us that we have to … Continued