Category Archive: Data Analysis
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Teaching: When Collaboration Simplifies a Highly Complex Profession
Teaching is highly complex, sophisticated, and rewarding work …We are very proud of the effort and energy our teachers devote to serving our students well.
These words, from the University of Washington’s Center for Educational Leadership, greet students, teachers, parents, and guests upon entry to our school. I never want anyone …
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Friday Forum – Any Helpful Resources for Questioning Strategies?
Help! I’m coaching three new teachers this year, and we’re focusing on questioning strategies as a way to draw out what their students understand and what misconceptions may exist in their learning. At the same time we want to develop more student discourse. I’ve done one model lesson. Now, I’m …
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Four Ways My School Tackled the Achievement Gap
Remember when we were kids, and we spent warm summer nights playing Red Rover with the other boys and girls in the neighborhood? Hands held tightly, all eyes focused on the target, our feet moved in sync, and our line was impenetrable!
As a principal of a middle school with high …
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Learning Data Walls: The Formative Use of Summative Assessments
As my Success at the Core colleague Wendy Sauer stated in her recent blog post, Great Formative Assessment Resources for Educators, the new year brings the opportunity to take stock of and assess our progress toward desired goals. At the middle school where I am principal, January marks …
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Data Walls: How to Use Data in Teaching
Icicle River Middle School in Leavenworth, WA, where I used to teach, was one of six schools to pilot Success at the Core during the 2009-2010 school year. SaC materials quickly became my go-to source for instructional strategy ideas. I was particularly excited about the Teacher Development videos, which …
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We’re Aiming for the Super Bowl
The opening week of the 2012 NFL football season saw a record five rookie starting quarterbacks. A review of the statistics put up by these precocious passers reveals the good, the bad and the ugly.
The second overall pick in the NFL draft, Robert Griffin III, produced the most …
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New Beginnings
Schooling systems move forward by building the capacity of the individuals within the system to do the work. – Michael Fullan, 2011
Like many of my colleagues across the educational spectrum, summer provides the time and opportunity to learn and to grow, reflecting on and re-imagining possibilities for ourselves, our …
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Innovative Educators Are the Real American Idols
One of the best parts of my job is listening. No, I’m not judging the voices of wanna-be pop stars on American Idol. But I am deeply interested in hearing from people who are the unsung stars in our communities. Specifically, I’m thinking about educators – the teachers, …
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