Archive for June, 2008

The 30-minute meeting

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Meetings that stay on task, on target, and on time are not the stuff of legend or fantasy.
30-minute meetings can be a reality. Click here for more information
Also, Jan O’Neill has a great article on the 30-minute meeting. Google and read all about it.

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Layers in the Summer

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Watching the Weather Channel tonight, I saw a sea of red across the U.S. indicating hot, hot, HOT temps. Definitely not sweater-weather! The only layers I want to see are in my curriculum, specifically in a layered-approach curriculum.
Layered Curriculum Unit Example: (scroll to page 10) Click here.  
For a link to one teacher’s practical implementation of [...]

Data Driven Decision Making

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Viewing, interpreting, and using data will help me….

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While You Were Teaching…4OOPS EduTech News Feed

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

The kids need you and the web keeps marching on…not to worry, 4OOPS’ EduTech news Feed has these top stories of interest to educators:
June 11, 2008 From Education Week: Teachers Achieving ‘Highly Qualified’ Status on the Rise
June 5, 2008 From Science Daily: Gaze aversion helps educators understand the educational progress of students.  
June 5, 2008 From [...]

Best Assessment Equation: Rubrics + Technology Tools

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

“Rubrics make the students’ lives much easier, but once written, they make the teacher’s life easier, too,” says Dr. Lena Nuccio-Lee, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at the University of New Orleans. See the complete story here. Technology tools online also enable us to customize assessment for student groups. Does Timmy need to concentrate on [...]

While You Were Teaching…4OOPSs EduTech News Feed

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

The kids need you and the web keeps marching on…not to worry, 4OOPS’ EduTech news Feed has these top stories of interest to educators:
May 29 From Edutopia: Readers’s Reveal Education’s Best http://www.edutopia.org/readers-survey-2008 
May 29  From ASCD Maryland school first in state to attain 100% proficiency
Every third- and fourth-grader at one Maryland elementary school passed the state’s [...]