Battle of the edu-tribes
After attending EduCon 2.3, Sam Chaltain identifies three edu-tribes: The Old Guard who defend the status quo, the New Guard of education reformers who battle the Old Guard and the ”growing, hopeful,...
View ArticleToo nice?
Teachers share a common goal — student success — but have trouble working together to achieve it, writes Cole Farnum, a beginning teacher in New York City who’s guest-blogging for Rick Hess....
View ArticleTogetherness
Schools improve when teachers work together, reports Miller-McCune Online. It takes time for teachers to collaborate effectively. A large body of research shows that mandatory teacher collaboration,...
View ArticleLife’s a carnival
Bellringers is hosting the Meet the Teacher edition of the Education Buzz Carnival. Darren wonders if official collaboration time is overdone. Mister Teacher could use help with the new math...
View ArticleTechnology can personalize learning
Brookings is hosting a conference — available live online — on education technology. Using Technology to Personalize Learning and Assess Students in Real-Time, a new Brookings study by Darrell West,...
View ArticleUrban superintendents collaborate with charters
More than 20 urban districts have adopted a “portfolio” strategy, holding district-run and independent charter schools to the same performance standards, reports Hopes, Fears, & Reality, the Center...
View ArticleFun with fads: embodied learning
“Embodied learning” lets students combine computer simulations with movement, reports Ed Week, visiting Elizabeth Forward Middle School in Pennsylvania. The school invested $35,000 in a SMALLab. . . ....
View ArticleFlexibility, respect cuts teacher turnover
Rachel Spector quit teaching in low-performing, all-minority East Palo Alto (California) after four years, “squashed” by pressure to teach in a prescribed way to raise test scores. ”I didn’t feel...
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Principals, teachers report more stress
Three-fourths of principals say the job has become “too complex,” reports MetLife’s new Survey of the American Teacher. And the number of “very satisfied” teachers has hit a new low. Most principals...
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A little help from my friends
On Assorted Stuff, Tim wants to flip the anti-cheating statement: “I have neither given nor received help on this assignment.” He proposes:
View ArticleNo math, no job
Weak math skills disqualify would-be workers, manufacturers say. High school graduates applying for jobs at Tacoma’s General Plastics Manufacturing have to take a math test. The company makes foam...
View ArticleTurnaround in Cincinnati
It’s possible to turn an urban school district around without cheating, writes Greg Anrig in The Atlantic. Cincinnati schools have improved thanks to a “data-driven collaborative strategy to promote...
View ArticleTeaching the core — and social competence
California educators are trying to integrate social and emotional learning into Common Core Standards, reports EdSource Today. SACRAMENTO – School is nothing if not an intensely social experience,...
View ArticleCheating is a valuable workplace skill
Homeschool your kids so they learn to cheat, writes Penelope Trunk on her homeschooling blog. What schools call cheating — getting the right answer from others — is “effective workplace behavior” and a...
View ArticleIn Shanghai, all teachers have mentors
In high-scoring Shanghai, all teachers have mentors — not just novices — and teachers collaborate in lesson and research groups, writes Marc Tucker in an interview with Ben Jensen, of Australia’s...
View ArticleTeamwork for what?
“Social-emotional skills’ such as teamwork, collaboration and communications are fashionable these days, writes Diana Senechal. She thinks students need to learn “a different way of being with others,...
View Article‘Teacherpreneurs’— and free e-books
Teacherpreneurs tells the stories of eight classroom teachers who are shaping policies and practices at their schools. All are members of Center for Teaching Quality’s Collaboratory. Download...
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Change without reform
After all the education reforms, what’s really changed in classrooms? Not a whole lot, writes Larry Cuban in his new book, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change Without Reform in American...
View ArticleTime-tech swaps can raise teacher pay
Blended learning can personalize instruction — and enable teachers to earn at least 20 percent more, write Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel on Education Next. In Time-Technology Swaps, excellent...
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