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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Next, teachers work collaboratively to plan both instruction and assessment using the curriculum maps. Honigsfeld, A., &

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. A support model mirrors the field of general medicine in which many chronic conditions are also not curable at present. Carr, E.G., Dunlap, G.,

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. So, that’s kind of cool.

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Impero Software Announces Philip Walters as its New Chairman

techlearning

Walters previously served as chair of GL Education, the leading provider of educational tests and assessments to UK schools; Rising Stars UK, the second largest primary school publisher in the UK; and Book Source, a UK-based book distributor. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5

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How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners

The Hechinger Report

Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning. To that end, MC 2 ’s curriculum explicitly includes a set of “habits” which are taught, coached and assessed throughout all learning experiences.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Diana Solares was aiming for a bachelor’s degree when she graduated from high school in San Diego in 2002. The results have been promising.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Searsport had started transitioning to a standards-based diploma in 2002, after receiving a share of a $10-million school reform grant that Gates had made to the Sen. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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