Tag Archives: California Standards Test
A BLINDING FLASH
I’m back. I have been sleeping. Drifting through the universe. Holding on for dear life. I’m trying to get my second book published and figure out where I go from El Milagro. So I am going to resurrect my blog … Continue reading
Filed under innovation and change, school reform, standardized testing, teaching, Uncategorized
JOURNALING CHAOS 5: “School Runnings”
The “I Ching” teaches that “Before there can be great brilliance… there must be chaos.” This is PART 5 in a series of blog posts that document our research, strategic thinking, observations and debates as we take on one of the last vestiges of … Continue reading
JOURNALING CHAOS 4: “Las Preguntas”
The “I Ching” teaches that “Before there can be great brilliance… there must be chaos.” This is PART 4 in a series of blog posts that document our research, strategic thinking, observations and debates as we take on one of the last vestiges of … Continue reading
INSTANT ABACUS
It’s Week 2 of the California Standards Test and students are fingering their math facts like an abacus. Many of our children couldn’t wait for the math portion of the CST. They are descendants of the Mayans and ancient astronomers … Continue reading
CELEBRATE… THE SEA BREEZE, THE 840
It is Day 3 of the 2009 California Standards Test and it is quiet across the campus. Still. Ghost-like. Except for the traffic up on I-5 whistling like a turbine and leaning ceaselessly into the North wind. The South. Our … Continue reading
Filed under charter schools, El Milagro, public education, standardized testing, teaching
HIGH STAKES… All IN
We are two weeks from the 2009 iteration of the California Standards Test. The clock is ticking. We are prepared. We are in a zone. And we better be…considering the high stakes. High stakes? Isn’t that just residual hyperbole left … Continue reading
BOX SCORE
(NOTE: As the Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) goals continue to accelerate, more and more US schools will be categorized by the pejorative brand: “Program Improvement School”. NCLB’s kiss of death. By 2014 as many as 90% of America’s schools could be … Continue reading
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