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  • Update on Baldrige Performance Excellence Program | A View from the Q

    Update on Baldrige Performance Excellence Program | A View from the Q. Read more

  • Teaching the Right Skills For a New Age: Inquiry Based Instruction | Spaces for Innovation | Scoop.it

    “Asking questions, formulating problems and challenges. It is a rare school or program that enables students to examine and develop profound questions, solve complex problems on a regular basis, or work from/develop challenges that are worthy of critical study. Imagine studying the American Revolution by enabling students to brainstorm questions and choose (with the teacher’s Read more

  • Seymour Papert: Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

    An expert on children and computing, Dr. Seymour Papert is a mathematician and one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. He is a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of major books on children and learning. Here he describes learning environments in which children collaborate around meaningful projects and powerful Read more

  • Rather Brainy

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  • Assessing ESEA Flexibility

    I encourage a review of the ESEA Flexibility proposal. I was very interested in the suggestions for “Consultation” and this proposal should be great motivation for community and stakeholder discussion. There is good and bad in this proposal.  It essentially guts NCLB and replaces it with state-level approaches, though generally those approaches must be based Read more

  • Youth Sports Head Trauma — Time to Take Action?

    Many may have seen the October 11th, 2010 60-Minutes article on football head trauma (I don’t have a link for it anymore).  There’s also a NY Times article on the NFL injury report referenced in the 60-Minutes report.  The National School Boards Association also published a recent article on this important topic, which covers more Read more