During today’s show, we discuss the following: Restructuring middle and high schools as they currently stand (departmentalization; interdisciplinary teams) How has departmentalization impacted student achievement in secondary schools? We end the episode with another outstanding, engaging...
During today’s show, we discuss a number of education stories from the news of the past two weeks. Nationwide Teacher Walkouts The deaths of two major figures in education history: Linda Brown Thompson (of Brown...
Join us as we get into the nitty gritty of implementing standards based grading with the guru, Rick Wormeli. https://www.rickwormeli.com/videos
Welcome to a very special Ed’s (Not) Dead short, where we will be focusing on the March 14th “MARCH FOR OUR LIVES” protest. We felt that it was an important enough event and potentially a...
During today’s show, we debrief Betsy DeVos’ terribly embarrassing interview on 60 Minutes during our first segment. What are the impacts of having an education secretary with such little experience and investment in and around public...
Janus v AFSCME and School Safety
During today’s show, we discuss the Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS shooting during our first segment. Despite all the noise on this issue, as educators, how do you think we should improve what we do to keep...
Grade For Learning, Not For Failure! The four day week, and all things education with Rick Wormeli During today’s show, we discuss the following topics during our first segment: From The Denver Post, we discuss the...
Thinking Skills vs Facts; Turnaround Efforts with TRI and Gillian Williams
System? What System? (S1E11)
- January 22, 2018
- Tagged as: alfie, ballou, based, devos, education, grading, graduation, kohn, leadership, punishment, rewards, standards
Ballou High School Graduation Debacle, Hot Takes!, and Dear Betsy!
The way schools are evaluated may be changing. We discuss how a new study shifts how we look at "underperforming" schools. In our second segment, we have two very special guests to discuss Social Emotional Learning and a program they created called "TEAMology."