Middle College National Consortium

Organization founded to provide long-term leadership and support the progressive movement.

Flipped Classroom on how students use classroom time to apply their learning in group activities and out of class time to watch videos or other online resources that convey the content.

U.S. News and World Report 2010 Bronze Best High School Winner for the third year in a row!

Five South Carolina public schools are among the 300 schools nationwide named 2010 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon winners today by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.  Official award ceremonies take place in November in Washington, DC.

Hollis Price is 2010 Title I Distinguished Schools National Winner for the state of Tennessee.

Study of select Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Middle College National Consortium Early Colleges and how high school and college partners strive to align secondary and post-secondary standards with college readiness.

The impact of the Middle College experience from the student's point of view published in an article by the Contra Costa Times.

Paper examines the mismatch between high school preparation and college expectations; how high schools should prepare students for college success.

Title: Reaching the Goal:  The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State Standards to College and Career Readiness.Source: EPIC Educational Policy Improvement CenterAuthors: David Conley et al A new analysis from Educational Policy improvement Center (EPIC) indicates that mastering the Common Core Standards have the baseline knowledge and skills necessary for college work.

I stumbled across this trailer called One Day on Earth where people around the world filmed examples of humanity. There is apparently an 11/11/11 worldwide event planned. Two ideas: any desire to alert schools of its existence so they could participate in November? Or select a date in time for kids at SLI schools to do their own 1 minute videotaping of humanity in their communities to have it come together in a 3 minute composite at the Conference? Or use it for an even bigger project unifying SLI students? http://vimeo.com/26378195

GTCHS was one of five   South Carolina school is winner the Palmetto's Finest Award for the 2009 school year!

Students at risk of dropping out have shown great capacity. See a news report about Challenge Early College High School and how it has helped to retain students at risk of dropping out.

Interesting list of social networks for educators

Great curation tools to find and organize online resources

interesting column and short video explaining the Tubric for building driving questions

variety of educational science videos

very interesting article on Forsyth County schools in GA (I just drove through there the other day and had no idea of their innovativeness!) encouraging students to bring their own technology to classrooms to use in project and inquiry based learning. Amazing!

excerpt on teaching critical thinking "What are the right kinds of questions to ask? In figuring out what questions to ask, it's really helpful to look at Bloom's Taxonomy. Bloom's begins with a knowledge-based question such as, "Who was the first president of the United States?" To answer that question simply requires knowledge. That's just a first step. Next you want them to be able to evaluate. So I push teachers to look at the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy that involve the analysis and evaluation type of questions. That's when you're pushing kids' thinking. For instance, if you ask, "To what extent was George Washington successful as the first president of the United States?" that's a much higher-level question. It requires a student to evaluate, to create a set of criteria for what makes someone a great president, to possess knowledge about George Washington, and to evaluate his performance against that set of criteria. I suggest that teachers really think about questions that hit four specific criteria. Questions should be open-ended, with no right or wrong answer, which prompts exploration in different directions require synthesis of information, an understanding of how pieces fit together be "alive in their disciplines," which means perpetually arguable, with themes that will recur throughout a student's lifetime and always be relevant be age-appropriate

The Alice Project--a 10th grade honors English tour of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with students reading the Annotated Alice and publishing their questions and reflections in real-time online.