Category: Articles
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011: STEM Education’s Sputnik Moment
When President Obama delivered his State of the Union speech in January 2011, he spoke of the importance of science and technology research and education to the U.S. — past, present, and future: Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite…
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Eight characteristics of effective school boards: At a glance
What makes an effective school board – one that positively impacts student achievement? From a research perspective, it’s a complex question. It involves evaluating virtually all functions of a board, from internal governance and policy formulation to communication with teachers, building administrators, and the public. But the research that exists…
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21 Things That Will be Obsolete in 2020 | MindShift
Inspired by Sandy Speicher’s vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day. How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says he’s seeing some of these already beginning to come to…
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Developing Mindful Leaders – Polly LaBarre – Harvard Business Review
…what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda? That was the question Todd Pierce asked himself in 2006 after years of experimenting with the full menu of trainings, meetings, and competency models in his capacity as CIO of biotechnology giant Genentech. He had…
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic
Terrific summary. Of note: ‘Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. “Oh,” he mentioned at one point, “and there are no private schools in Finland.”‘ via What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic.
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10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2012 | Tableau Software
The last few years have seen a sea of changes in business intelligence BI. The proliferation of data and advances in technologies are pushing the pace of innovation. Here are 10 BI trends to watch for in the months ahead. Big data gets even bigger Self-reliance is the new self-service…
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Reading, math crowd out untested subjects — Joanne Jacobs
Language arts and math are crowding out untested subjects, such as art, music, foreign language and sometimes science, say 3rd-to-12th grade public school teachers surveyed by Common Core. The problem is greatest in elementary school. Among those who say crowding out is taking place in their schools, virtually all (93%)…
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21st Century Education and School Boards | Effective Governance Teams
This week Ken Kay completed a seven part series on Becoming a 21st Century School or District. At the core of the series is the identification of four skills to be fused with content and the 3Rs (reading, writing and arithmetic). The four skills are: Critical thinking Communication Collaboration Creativity…
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What should be the outcomes of K-12 schooling? How do we know if we’ve achieved them? – Philadelphia, PA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post – A Professinal Networking Community for Educators
This is the first of two commentaries examining the “bottom line” of K-12 education– what the larger community should expect from schools in terms of student outcomes (this commentary), and what educators (and others) should demand in terms of inputs (the next commentary, part 2). This commentary is purposely designed…
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Seven Principles for Teaching the Right Skills for a New Age – Philadelphia, PA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post – A Professinal Networking Community for Educators
In several previous blogs, I suggested an inquiry based instructional approach focused around five key skill areas: Ask questions, formulate problems and challenges Search for and process information Think deeply and flexibly Draw conclusions, apply learning Communicate effectively These are skills that students must develop if they are to be…
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