Engagement in practitioner research is one way to trouble the images held by the education community, the policy community, and the public. – Nancy Fitchman Dana Kimberly Schools Create Award-Winning Literacy Model by Jen Zettel (Appleton Post-Crescent, December 16, 2014) A Wisconsin school district was profiled for their efforts to improve student literacy achievement. Using a … Read more
The medium is the message. – Marshall McLuhan New York City libraries will soon let patrons “check out the Internet” by Nancy Scola (The Washington Post, December 4, 2014) New York City residents can now check out an Internet hotspot to use in their own homes. This normally monthly financial obligation is available to any … Read more
If you don’t want to see it on the front page of the newspaper, don’t put it in an email. – Former principal at a school I taught at a decade ago ClassDojo Adopts Deletion Policy for Student Data by Natasha Singer (The New York Times Bits, November 18, 2014) After an article was written regarding … Read more
We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. – Jim Collins Coffee Shops are Better Than Classrooms by Andrew Campbell (Looking Up: A “Professional” Blog, November 14, 2014) This post starts by profiling author J.K. Rowling and her penchant for writing in coffee houses. Rowling finds that these locations allow her to see … Read more
“Children are always on task; the important question is, what is the task?” – Peter Johnston For Millennials, the End of the TV Viewing Party by Alex Williams (New York Times, November 7, 2014) With the advent of the smartphone, landlines are starting to become a thing of the past. But what about television? Williams provides … Read more
“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.” – Steve Jobs, in his 2005 Stanford University graduation speech, about being fired from Apple High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her “ineffective” by Valerie Strauss (Washington Post, October 31, 2014) A New York City educator with an impeccable teaching … Read more
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. – John Dewey What Reflects a Great School? Not Test Scores by Regie Routman (Education Week, October 22, 2014) Regie Routman writes a very pointed commentary about the educational world’s infatuation with standardized tests. She admits that it is possible to raise … Read more
