Cross posted at The Critical Skills Blog I’m at the Progress in Progressive Education Conference at the Putney School today. I’ve been tweeting a bit- and will probably tweet more- but something that Howard Gardner said this morning is still ringing in my ears. The fact that we call something “Progressive” or “Traditional” doesn’t make [...]
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Of Feathers and Fins: An I3 Parable
March 26, 2010 – 1:10 pm
Cross posted at The Critical Skills Blog I, like most of the known education universe, have been exploring the Investing in Innovation grant recently. It’s an interesting project, designed to reward those who have been successful in implementing innovations in their schools. At it’s heart, I believe, the intention is to grow little programs that [...]
Stone Soup
March 1, 2010 – 1:42 pm
Cross-posted at The Critical Skills Blog. I have a folder on my desktop called Blog Fodder. I bookmark pages that I think are interesting and worth sharing and which spark some loquacious tendency in me. Typically I discover a theme and I’m off to the races. Sometimes I don’t. Today is one of those “don’t” [...]
Play Schmay
February 23, 2010 – 11:58 am
Crossposted at The Critical Skills Blog. It’s February break in my little corner of the world- at least for my kids and my husband- and I’ve been thinking a lot about what I would have done as a kid if someone gave me a whole week off during the shortest (and yet, through some twist [...]
The Sticky Wicket of High Test Scores
February 19, 2010 – 5:01 pm
Crossposted at The Critical Skills Blog One of the schools with whom I am very involved (let’s call it Brookside) has struggled with its NCLB status in the last few years. Widely considered to be a “good” school, the students and teachers nevertheless struggled with the local, standardized measure of “good”- the NECAP. They did [...]
Snow Day
February 18, 2010 – 3:06 pm
Cross posted at The Critical Skills Blog Snow days are pretty common where I live. Last year, between ice and snow, I think we had two weeks of them plus about a dozen delayed starts. This year, in some bizarre natural phenomenon, we’ve had none. Until today. Today, the 16th of February, we have our [...]
An Education Valentine
February 15, 2010 – 8:06 am
Crossposted at The Critical Skills Blog If my own kids are any indicator, schools all across the country are going to be awash in conversation hearts, chocolate, and teeny-tiny cardboard greetings today. We’ve spent the last week painstakingly selecting, addressing, sealing, and candy-fying (a process by which one tapes a small piece of candy onto [...]
We’re Not in Mayberry Anymore
February 4, 2010 – 9:42 am
Crossposted at The Critical Skills Blog As a school coach and college educator, I have had many opportunities to observe struggles and successes in schools across the country. I have been lucky enough to connect with peers from coast to coast, working in both urban and rural settings, fighting the good fight day after day. [...]
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