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Future Superintendents Get Lesson in Leadership was originally posted on GettingSmart.com. “Everything is more flexible, if I want to learn something, I Google it,” said a school district administrator, “everyone is more independent and less dependent on traditional structures.” Last week our team had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with a group of talented [...]
Oops, They Did it Again! PARCC Servers Crash Due to Demand On May 1 the Common Core assessment consortium PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) released assessment blueprints and test specifications. You may remember that when PARCC first released item samples, the traffic was so high that it crashed their servers. [...]
Just as the rest of the year seemingly has, the final weeks of school will start to fly by and before you know it, it will be time to say goodbye to the students and families with whom you’ve spent so much time and from whom you’ve learned so much. With the help of classroom [...]
As teachers, we often spend hours grading papers and tests, only to have our students look at the grade and then toss the paper in the wastebasket. While we must evaluate our students’ work, we also need to provide corrective feedback and develop resources and opportunities for our students to think about their work and [...]
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Last week, at the International Reading Association Conference, I overheard a table of teachers chatting. One teacher was lamenting about the amount of time children in her class spent being shuttled from one after-school activity to another. “Parents don’t have the time to read to kids anymore! They’re too busy filling their lives with things [...]
The Epidemic Of Media Multitasking While Learning by Annie Murphy Paul was originally posted on The Brilliant Blog. Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students—in middle school, high school, and college, 263 [...]
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