Creating More STEM Leaders
Anne Jolly describes one community’s strategy to develop leadership for STEM education at every level, from the classroom to the executive suite.
Anne Jolly describes one community’s strategy to develop leadership for STEM education at every level, from the classroom to the executive suite.
The Co-Teaching Relationship / Two Teachers in the Room
by Elizabeth Stein · Published 02/25/2013 · Last modified 11/26/2019
In an interview with Elizabeth Stein, co-teaching pioneer Anne Beninghof says inclusion classrooms should be exemplary models of differentiated instruction.
Learning consultant Mike Fisher shares more ideas for integrating technology and the Common Core. This time: Digital resources that can deepen math learning by capturing “a moment-in-time assessment of student ownership,” provided teachers are savvy about the ways students use the tools.
High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching by Jim Knight “spectacularly delivers on its promise” to present a comprehensive framework for great teaching, says Julie Dermody. “It’s a career investment.”
Accommodation & Modification / Two Teachers in the Room
by Laurie Wasserman · Published 02/17/2013 · Last modified 11/24/2019
All students on IEPs have accommodations; many also have modifications. How do we implement these in our inclusive, co-taught classrooms?
Reviewer Elisa Waingort finds Ron Berger’s 2003 book, An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students, timeless and timely, with concrete suggestions for building a classroom culture of excellence.
Positive discipline is supported by brain research about adolescent learning, say the authors of U-Turn Teaching. So demonstrate, facilitate, motivate.
This teacher-friendly book, Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman, helps us understand what the ELA CCSS really say and how to bring them to life in classes, writes reviewer Julie DeMicco.
Anne Jolly is mad as heck as she watches teachers struggle to implement STEM projects while drilling kids for high stakes tests that don’t measure deep learning.
In The Literacy Cookbook: A Practical Guide to Effective Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Instruction, Sarah Tantillo’s banquet of tasty recipes for good literacy instruction are also a helpful ELA Common Core resource, says reviewer Linda Biondi.