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Sheri Edwards

CMS Test results invite scrutiny - CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Staff at both schools will collect 10- to 15-percent pay hikes based on this year's scores, money that goes away next year. The raises, paid for by county commissioners eager to see kids succeed at low-performing schools, illustrate the rewards and penalties that can hang on test scores.
  • In 2006, a principal split Garinger into five academies with specialized themes. The New Technology school emerged strong, but the rest of the campus struggled.
  • She was convinced the dismal pass rate could change but believed many needed stronger skills to pass exams. “We really had to put the brakes on things,” she said. That meant letting strong students go straight into the EOC classes. But weaker ones took a semester or more of preparatory classes designed to boost their reading, math or science skills.
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  • The Observer analysis shows an unusually large number of Garinger International students sidestepped EOC courses in 2008-09. (See box.)
  • This year the school added juniors, which meant enrollment grew by almost 50 percent. Yet the school gave 46 fewer tests.
  • In English I, which all ninth-graders must take, Garinger International's pass rate went from 67 to 81 percent.
  • the only thing we have to vary is the time it takes to attain the standards. We do not all learn at the same rate.
  • It sounds like the principal is trying to help all her kids be successful. Why must that be cause for suspicion??
  • Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09
     
    What do you think?
Karen LaBonte

Converting ppt or pps files to movie/video files. - 2 views

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converting ppt resources

shared by Karen LaBonte on 27 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Karen LaBonte on 27 Feb 10
     
    Lots of different responses to a question someone posted on a tech forum. For recent responses, scroll to bottom.
Dennis OConnor

Script Writing and Screenwriting Help - 4 views

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writing

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  • Dennis OConnor on 28 Feb 10
     
    "Scriptwriting is an artform, and creating art is never easy. Everytime you watch a TV show, watch a film or even play a computer game you are taking in the work of a scriptwriter. With today being driven by the various mediums of entertainment scriptwriting has becomes one of the best page and attractive jobs going. Film scripts have been sold for in excess of $1 million. With that sort of money floating around it's no wonder people are becoming more interested in the idea of scriptwriting. "
anonymous

It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project - ReadWriteThink - 6 views

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autobiography readwritethink teaching

shared by anonymous on 17 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 17 Mar 10
     
    Great intro unit that will help students get acquainted!
Clifford Baker

2¢ Worth » It Was Good Enough for Me - 4 views

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shared by Clifford Baker on 11 Apr 10 - Cached
  • We are not working under these conditions because of our zip code or because of some unavoidably cyclical function of our reality. These constraints do not happen like weather patterns that we simply have to hunker down and wait out. They happen because of decisions that people make due to greed, misinformation, politico-social agendas, or ignorance.
  • “What was good enough for me is good enough for ‘your’ children.”
  • What interests me are products that help students learn to learn by empowering them to gaze upon the world they are learning about and to interact with the world, not by giving them better access to the classroom and instructor.
Todd Finley

Vocabulary Exercise - 11 views

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resources

shared by Todd Finley on 31 May 10 - Cached
  • Todd Finley on 31 May 10
     
    Challenging vocabulary. Correct answers help feed the hungry.
Adam Babcock

Education Week's Digital Directions: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 10 views

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shared by Adam Babcock on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • English-language learners
  • audio recorders to have student-teachers read sets of vocabulary words, then she creates matching PowerPoint presentations with the words and burns them onto DVDs
  • 2nd through 4th graders over 16 weeks as they used webcams to see themselves reading and then he identified their mistakes.
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  • at least two fewer mistakes per minute.
  • podcasting to help her students practice fluency.
  • Then they can literally see the pauses or mistakes they made in the editing program and correct them.
  • Using VoiceThread, for instance—which allows users to create collaborative, multimedia slide shows with images, documents, and videos
  • Storybird, allows students to tap into a library of illustrations to create digital books, says Lovely.
Adam Babcock

"Monster" analysis by Shmoop - 12 views

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music hiphop

shared by Adam Babcock on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Keith Schoch on 19 Mar 11
     
    I'm all for using pop culture references in teaching, and I did read what Shmoop had to say on this particular video, but would you really feel comfortable sharing this video in class and having a discourse on it? I'm a Jay-Z fan and a hip hop lover from its earliest days, but this video and song are reprehensible on so many levels. With so much else that we can "source" for instruction, why this? Please help me understand. And don't say it's a gangsta thang.
  • Adam Babcock on 20 Mar 11
     
    To answer your first question about showing the music video: absolutely not. Why this? I'm still struggling with it. We're in an age where we are entertained by self destruction. Kanye (unfortunately, because I was a fan of his earlier work) is definitely becoming one of the monster / Charlie Sheen / Jersey Shore / reality TV burnouts. And yet, there is an audience for it... When I first skimmed the analysis, I thought I'd go back to see if Schmoop was established enough to have a worthy application of Freud to Kanye. Alas, I was mistaken. I haven't become a fan of Schmoop; they've got some work to do. I'm sorry I misplaced my "under investigation" tag in ECN's collection.
Dugg Lowe

Critical essay writing help - 0 views

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  • Dugg Lowe on 27 Mar 11
     
    Keep in mind to restate the name and deviser of the assigned reading in the conclusion. Ultimate elements for your critical composition The critical essay is defined as didactic evaluation supported by convincing and professional evidential support. Read more: http://education.ezinemark.com/how-to-write-a-critical-essay-7d2ca37506f.html#ixzz1HQnxiSS7 Under Creative Commons License: Attribution No Derivatives
Dugg Lowe

Essay paragraph writing help - 0 views

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  • Dugg Lowe on 27 Mar 11
     
    A paragraph can be described as division of a written work that made up of one or more pieces and handles one point or presents the ideas of a talker.
Adam Babcock

The Failure of American Schools - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

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education politics

shared by Adam Babcock on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • recalcitrant
  • From 1960 to 1980, our supply of college graduates increased at almost 4 percent a year; since then, the increase has been about half as fast. The net effect is that we’re rapidly moving toward two Americas—a wealthy elite, and an increasingly large underclass that lacks the skills to succeed.
  • in education, despite massive increases in expenditure, we don’t see improved results
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  • That leads too many people to suspect that poverty is destiny, that schools can make only a small difference, and that therefore we’re unable to fix this problem, regardless of its seriousness. So why try?
  • That Kafkaesque outcome demonstrates precisely the way the system is run: for the adults. The school system doesn’t want to change, because it serves the needs of the adult stakeholders quite well, both politically and financially.
  • “Listen, they’re trying to get rid of a principal in my district who runs a Democratic club for us. If you protect him, you’ll never have a problem with me.” This kind of encounter was not rare.
  • President Obama was on to something in 2008 when he said: “The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of [students’] skin or where they come from. It’s not who their parents are or how much money they have. It’s who their teacher is.” Yet, rather than create a system that attracts and rewards excellent teachers—and that imposes consequences for ineffective or lazy ones—we treat all teachers as if they were identical widgets and their performance didn’t matter.
  • The result: too few effective math and science teachers in high-poverty schools.
  • Many have candidly told me they are burned out, but they can’t afford to leave until their pension fully vests. So they go through the motions until they can retire with the total package.
  • And why give all teachers making $80,000, or more, a 10 percent raise? They’re not going to leave, since they’re close to vesting their lifetime pensions. By contrast, increasing starting salaries by $8,000 (rather than $4,000) would help attract and retain better new teachers.
floratorculas

Brain Blinkers - 11 views

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  • floratorculas on 08 Jun 11
     
    Introduces Easy To Use Bullet-Point Approach To Take Control Of Your Beliefs And Thoughts.
Mark Smith

We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Highe... - 14 views

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reading

shared by Mark Smith on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • My hyper-attentive habits were alienating me further and further from the much older and (one would have thought) more firmly established habits of deep attention. I was rapidly becoming a victim of my own mind's plasticity, until a new technology helped me to remember how to do something that for years had been instinctive, unconscious, natural.
Leslie Healey

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 17 views

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21stcenturylearning teaching digitalcitizenship

shared by Leslie Healey on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • What if, indeed. After studying the matter, Ms. Davidson concluded, “Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
  • Ms. Davidson cites the elite Socratic system of questions and answers, the agrarian method of problem-solving and the apprenticeship program of imitating a master. It’s possible that any of these educational approaches
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
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  • students accountable on the Web
  • Leslie Healey on 08 Aug 11
     
    Coherent, concise assessment of the reactionary nature of school, not "learning"
Dennis OConnor

150 Questions to Write or Talk About - NYTimes.com - 30 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • For almost two years now, we’ve posted a fresh Student Opinion question every weekday.Each question was originally inspired by something in that week’s New York Times, and all of them are still open to comment by anyone between the ages of 13 and 25.Teachers tell us they use them as “bell-ringers,” as inspiration for lessons, as jumping-off points for student research and journalism, or just to help students practice writing persuasively and responding to others around the world. (We don’t allow last names, and we read each and every comment ourselves before we make it public, so it’s a pretty civil, and safe, place to post.)Below, 1
Grace Lin

Portfolios (Authentic Assessment Toolbox) - 12 views

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portfolios assessment rubric

shared by Grace Lin on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Susan Payne on 04 Nov 09
     
    Helpful overview for implementing a portfolio system.
  • Grace Lin on 06 Nov 09
     
    Portfolio assessment toolbox
Vanessa Alander

http://www.smallschoolsproject.org/PDFS/co21003/rigor_not.pdf - 3 views

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rigor managment

shared by Vanessa Alander on 08 May 11 - No Cached
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      Vanessa Alander on 08 May 11
       
      Rigor is not... it is helping students develop complex ambiguous provocative challenging material in and out of the classroom
Teresa Ilgunas

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  • Teresa Ilgunas on 18 Jul 11
     
    Now ad-free, even for the free blogs. Yes!
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