Tag Archive: implementing new programs

• The Common Core: A Lifeline for a Nation at Risk?

  
  Obadiah Dunham | October 25, 2012

  Will the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) move us beyond a nation at risk?

  In 1983, when President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education published a report entitled A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, it launched a series of restructuring efforts that still reverberate through …

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• Getting to How: Leading for Long-Term Implementation of the Common Core State Standards

  
  Ailene Baxter | October 19, 2012

  …Your most important resource is your own willingness to experiment, your courage to take risks and your commitment to continual learning for yourself and your students.

                                                                                                                  -Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman

  After a record eighty days of sunshine, the rain finally returned to the Seattle area.  By chance, this day happened …

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• Unpacking the Common Core

  
  Merrilou Harrison | October 11, 2012

  As students and teachers get back in to the school routine, for many there is a significant change. Rather than learning a new curriculum, many educators are grappling with a new set of academic standards.

  Yes, we have been in a standards-based system in the United State for the last 15 …

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• Strange New Worlds

  
  Obadiah Dunham | July 31, 2012

  What do you think it takes to be an instructional leader in the 21^st century?

  Recently, I participated in two professional development offerings to help equip me for this challenge. First, as a Success at the Core (SaC) Fellow, I had the opportunity to learn more about SaC with a small …

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