Reducing the Summer Slump: Some Tips and Ideas
It seems the only way to truly avoid the summer slump is to include in a lazy summer day some extensive, monitored, and challenging practice in reading and mathematics.
0 Comments Posted Friday, July 16, 2010
Race to the Top: A Parent’s Perspective
So what can I do as a parent to help my state get the federal grant money to really improve my children’s education?
0 Comments Posted Saturday, June 12, 2010
Implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) at Urban School Districts webinar
Implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) at Urban School Districts webinar
0 Comments Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010
“West Oakland elementary school uses technology to help kids read”
Article written for the Oakland Tribune
0 Comments Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Lessons from a Jar
I suspect that the more time our children spend exploring ideas authentic to them on their terms, the more deeply they'll understand the world around them and the better able they'll be to make a significant mark on the world.
0 Comments Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Is Email a New Genre of Writing?
If you are reading this article, then undoubtedly you are a person who is using the Internet on a regular basis to gain information for business and personal reasons. Furthermore, you probably use email continually for communications with friends, family, and colleagues. But did you ever stop to think that email may be a new genre of writing? If this is the case, then it probably deserves to be taught in secondary school as an essential writing category. Not doing so could put teenagers and young adults at a disadvantage.
11 Comments Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009
Redefining the Fundamental Infrastructures of Schools to Reflect Today’s Technologies
Today, the resources that support schools are very different from what they were even 20 years ago. It is probably safe to say that most schools have telephone systems, a computer-based library check-out system, computer labs, Internet access, and much more. Some have moved towards computer-based curriculum management tools and other internal and external web resources. But most of these focus on the logistics of schools and their operations. What we really need are systems to diagnose students in order to move towards the next stage of education: one to one instruction.
2 Comments Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Gold Standard of RtI Implementation
Discovering the best way to implement RtI in your school or district
5 Comments Posted Friday, September 19, 2008
Let’s Go Learn featured in Scholastic Administrator
0 Comments Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008
Out of Control
It's bad enough that children are increasingly losing control over their personal opinions and insights for the sake of making the right scores on high-stakes tests. It's awful when they become ill over it--when it's not about educating children as much as it is about controlling them.
1 Comments Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The End of Print as We Know It?
As far as reading goes, while I still read books, I now spend copious amounts of time reading material on the Internet - much more than I do reading from the pages of reference books or magazines. It's amazing to me that in fewer than a dozen years of my life, my experience of text has changed so drastically that now much of it happens electronically.
2 Comments Posted Friday, March 14, 2008
Let’s Go Learn Co-Founder Featured in District Administration Article
District Administration has released an article highlighting the need for diagnostic assessment in the classroom. Featured in their article is Dr. Richard McCallum, co-founder of Let's Go Learn.
0 Comments Posted Friday, March 07, 2008