Common Core Standards – Good Idea or Bad Idea

by | Jul 29, 2010 | Uncategorized

In the effort to reform (for the sake of reform in my opinion), the current government administration is pushing for Common Core Standards for the entire country. Sounds like a good idea? That is what many of the top educational research organizations are saying,...

Teachers of the Future

by | Jul 19, 2010 | Uncategorized

Is it possible? Could we really be looking at the future of education to be handled by robots? According to this article, there are already countries experimenting with classrooms taught by robots and here in the US, we are already testing them on preschoolers.The...

Evaluating Teachers

by | Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized

Between the Race to the Top (RttT) fund in full swing, stage 2 now, and reforms being made in many states, including Colorado (in hopes of winning RttT), the way in which we evaluate teachers is big news lately. Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University had...

Friendship 911

by | Jun 23, 2010 | Uncategorized

Last week this story came to my attention and at first I couldn’t believe what I saw. I thought perhaps it was a passing thing, but now, a week later, it is being talked about by newspapers and bloggers around the country. So I couldn’t let it slip by...

School Reform

by | Jun 17, 2010 | Uncategorized

School reform is a tired phrase that we hear over and over again. Reform the curriculum, change the name of “special education” to “student success,” or even update the building, hire a new position, etc. all in the name of school reform. Where...