Read (but don’t be) VAMboozled
If you're interested in value-added measures used in teacher evaluation, you need to read VAMboozled....
Month: August 2015
Road Trip Slide Show: High School English
This slide show accompanies a blog post (“The Limitations of Imitation“) at my EdWeek Teacher blog, Road Trips in Education. I’m indebted to the high school English teachers in the...
What is the Future of EdCamp?
Edcamp is a great model of grassroots organization and participant leadership- so what happens when larger numbers of people, organizations and institutions latch on that idea?...
‘The Mirage’ and Teacher Learning
TNTP's report, "The Mirage," suggests that we're currently wasting a lot of money in failed attempts to help teachers who mostly lack self-awareness, vision, ambition, and the capacity for improvement...
Equity and Teacher Hiring
Plenty of people are ready to tell schools and teachers what to do to solve problems in education, but pretty short on ideas for closing the equity and opportunity gaps that stack the odds against cer...
Drumming Up a Shift in Thinking
My recent vacation produced a valuable lesson about life and learning, a reminder of how hard it is to turn off expectations and simply be open to what you find. The lesson began at the moment I chang...