By Steve Lopez, LA Times Harry Gordon wasn’t exactly pushy in the email he sent me, but he made his point. He said he understood the Miramonte Elementary School scandal was a story that had to be done, but he wondered why there couldn’t also be a positive story about teachers. And he had one […]
By Stephanie Hirsh, EducationWeek Now bearing the imprimatur of 46 states and the District of Columbia, the Common Core State Standards represent a major step forward for schools and the students they must prepare to graduate from high school ready for college and careers. Yet a fundamental contradiction underlies the progress: While we are promoting […]
By James Encinas, Kyle Hunsberger and Michael Stryer, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed We’re teachers who believe that teacher evaluation, including the use of reliable test data, can be good for students and for teachers. Yes, yes, we know we’re not supposed to exist. But we do, and there are a lot more of us. Continue […]
By Linda Lutton, The Hechinger Report — In the sunlit library at Jorge Prieto Elementary on Chicago’s’ northwest side, an experiment is under way. A provisional classroom has been set up. A white board sits at the front of the room, and 20 eighth-graders are seated at library tables. Math teacher Michael Hock is giving […]
By Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING staff – Every year for the past five, we at the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING take a step back from the work we do in support of developing gifted teachers and artful teaching in order to assess the perception of the ART of TEACHING […]
By Cotsen Staff, Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING — TNTP, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending educational inequality while helping to advance policies and practices that ensure effective teaching, is offering five $25,000 awards for great teaching, and the “opportunity to collaborate with other winners during [a] summer residency that culminates in the […]
Deborah Ball, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, delivers her keynote address, “Great teachers are not born. They’re TAUGHT” at the 6th Annual the ART of TEACHING Conference. Dr. Ball argues that teaching is technical, which means “that it requires a lot of specialized knowledge, that it takes practice, […]
By Cotsen Staff, Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING — Last year, the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING had the distinct pleasure of working with 133 fellows, 24 mentors, and 30 schools, as well as 256 alumni who participated in foundation-sponsored activities. Together, these teachers affected more than 11,000 students over the […]
By Arun Ramanathan, Education Trust — Most teachers say they teach because they love their students, and because they love helping them to learn. And it shows. Research shows that the single most important school-based factor in improving student academic performance is the quality of the teacher in the classroom. Students who have strong teachers […]
From www.ncte.org — The new National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE) brings together leading education associations, policy organizations, and foundations to support powerful learning about literacy in every discipline. NCLE provides a structure for educator teams and schools engaged in innovative practices to share and learn from one another through exchanges centered on development of locally viable […]