Entries from October 2008

October 20, 2008

BLACK BELT MUSINGS TO A BAG OF ICE

There are schools all across America where 100% of the students are performing at their “grade level” as they always have… and always will. They don’t have to wait until 2014 or whenever NCLB shames every school into compliance or dire consequence. Your school could have every child at grade level too. By this Friday! 

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October 12, 2008

AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME– A TEACHABLE MOMENT

I noticed the other day as I conducted my walkthroughs in all of our classrooms throughout our K-8 campus, there was little evidence that we are in the final weeks of an historic Presidential campaign. For that matter, there was little evidence that we were in an economic meltdown or even the baseball play-offs.
I wondered: [...]