Alexis Marrero – Doctoral Program Graduate
Dr. Alex Marrero completed his doctorate in cohort 1 of the Sage Colleges Doctoral Program, in partnership with CITE. He’s about to enter his fourth year as Principal at school 10×254, or as he calls it, Team 254, in the Bronx. Alex is a tremendous person who’s affected great change in a short time, so […]
SBL Program Instructor Spotlight – Timothy Lisante
Dr. Timothy Lisante teaches in the St. Rose/ CITE SBL program, and was recently featured in this post from Chalkbeat. We caught up with him to check in on his impressive career. Please give us your name and current job. TIMOTHY LISANTE, PhD. SUPERINTENDENT You are the Superintendent for District 79 — what’s unique […]
Model School – PS 160 Serves ELL Students
The New York Times published this article on PS 160’s immigrant community, and the services that the school offers to support the students and their families. It’s an impressive all-hands network of ELL and family-involvement strategies driven from the Principal and APs through the teachers and Parent Coordinator. Here’s an excerpt: “P.S. 160, the William T. […]
ELL Classroom Strategies
Engaging English Language Learners in a Mainstream Classroom (ELL Classroom Strategies) By Matt Zagami Students come into classrooms at various stages of language acquisition. Because schools have shied away from self-contained English Language classes, they’ve mixed these students into the general classes. This creates a challenge for the teacher. You could have 25 students in a class, 20 […]
Passover and Pedagogy
There is a really interesting piece by someone who is not Jewish about the Passover seder and the thoughts it stimulated for her about her own pedagogy. I lead seders every year and there are some things that happened at this seder that I will incorporate (though spending four hours isn’t on the table). One […]
What do Great Principals Do?
Teachers should not feel alone. That’s the premise of this great piece from WNYC. It’s also the core of readings in our SBL courses 505 and 590. In the WNYC piece, David O’Hara argues that great principals do three key things: provide time for teachers to collaborate empower teachers to own their professional development build […]
Learning Partners Program
Patricia King is the principal of M.S. 267 Math Science & Technology Institute in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. In this post from Chalkbeat she paints a picture of school collaboration as a challenging and rewarding relationship. Her host school is the School for Global Leaders, under Principal Carry Chan, from whom she learned strategies including data tracking, to […]
Renewal Schools Update
The city actually released its goals for renewal schools and put them on their websites. It still doesn’t call for the elementary and middle schools to average a passing grade on the math or language arts exams, but at least they are somewhat clear. Here’s the link to the Chalkbeat article. http://ny.chalkbeat.org/2015/12/08/after-criticism-city-publishes-renewal-goals-arguing-they-top-state-targets/#.VmbuDriDGkp Here’s a […]
