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"Differentiated Instruction: Setting the Pedagogy Straight Article Description: Rick Wormeli responds to criticisms and questions about the effectiveness of differentiated instruction."

Jeannie Oakes is director of Education and Scholarship for the Ford Foundation. Until Fall 2008, she was Presidential Professor in Educational Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also directs UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education & Access (IDEA), which offers new ways for public research universities to engage urban communities. S

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"The most damaging assumption of the NCLB era was that test scores and student achievement are the same thing. In the Common Core era, the most damaging assumption might be the following fallacy: Moving toward a coherent national system will bring about a loss of autonomy for teachers."

article from November Learning

"I've used mindfulness practices-paying close attention to thoughts, feelings, and body sensations-for nearly 10 years. In addition to cultivating awareness of my mind and body, the practices have changed the way I relate to stress. This practice became the foundation for a pilot program I started for students at my elementary school: Mindful Moments."

"In a study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Teachers College Record, University of Pennsylvania researchers Claire Robertson-Kraft and Angela Duckworth found that, for novice teachers in high-poverty school districts, higher levels of  "perseverance and passion for long-term goals"  (aka "grit")  were associated with higher rates of effectiveness and retention. "

"Although reading, talking, and writing about text during a guided reading session is vitally important, I was excited to discover another technique, an idea called "graffiti tables"

"Learn With Homer is a new app that provides a comprehensive contextualized literacy curriculum that kids can use at home on the iPad."

"The visual guide you see below is from Flickr via Kris McElroy's Pinterest board (she shares a lot of fabulous resources so check 'em out!). It details the many critical thinking skills and related questions that you should use."

"We must come to understand that refusing to presume competence is, in the long run, more costly than making that least dangerous assumption."

"But these examples-involving only thousands of students-are the exceptions to the rule. The system as a whole educates millions and is slow to recognize or adopt successful innovation. It's a system that was constructed almost two centuries ago to meet the needs of the industrial age. Now that our society and economy have evolved beyond that era, our schools must also be reinvented. For the time being, we can see what the future looks like in places like Juárez Correa's classroom. We can also see that change will not come easily. "

"It is useful to picture Bloom's taxonomy as a wheel since all stages are not required for every lesson and every lesson does not necessarily lead to "Creating."  You can print the "the wheel deal" for your classroom or student notebooks."

"the research, which involved tracking nearly 800 students for two decades, suggests that specific social-emotional skills among young children can be powerful predictors for success later in life."

"A growing collection of mathematics education videos related to Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, Precalculus, Calculus, and AP Statistics:) I have a BS in Mathematics Education and 19 years of teaching experience at the high school level. The videos you will find on my site are full lessons that include multiple examples to help you understand math and complete your homework.

"When writing communication goals and objectives for learners with complex communication needs one place to start is the research.  What does it say about the skills needed to be a competent communicator?"