flexible curriculum
This is a great post from a teacher who changed her 6th grade science class from earth science, a highly abstract topic for most students, to a coding class which has practical possibilities for all of them. Her situation is a little bit different because she is in a charter school, but she has practical […]
Closing Schools Do Not Lead to Improved Student Performance
New York, NY – Council of School Supervisors & Administrators President Ernest Logan issued comments on the release of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools report, “High School Closures in New York City:””CSA takes the Research Alliance study at its word that it “cannot identify the precise mechanisms that explain closures impact or […]
School Administration – Improvement Matters
LEADERSHIP MATTERS: A MODEL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION The NY Times has an absolutely fabulous article on PS 172, a school in the city that works fabulously well. The principal, Jack Spatola, has been the principal there since 1984 and his AP has been there for more than twenty years. School administration continuity matters. He also has […]
SBL Instructor Spotlight – Dr. Ellen Margolin
My name is Dr. Ellen Margolin and I have been teaching for the St. Rose/CITE SBL Program since the beginning – in fact I was the first professor hired more than 15 years ago. Currently I teach School Law, although I have taught all of the SBL courses at some point over the past many […]
Back to School Teacher Resources
Back to school resources roundup Welcome back. We missed you… unless you’re in one of our grad courses, administration courses, or counseling courses that met over the summer. In which case, we’re glad to see you so soon. This is our Back to School article and resource roundup for teachers. Please let us know what […]
The Curse of Testing: Narrow Curriculum
Your Week in Education 8/31 By Danielle Bonnici What should we teach? An interesting Op-Ed in the New York Times discussed the curse of standardized testing this week. Natalie Wexler reports that tests are blamed for narrowing curriculum to focus only on reading and math. The problem is so grave that Congress is considering making changes […]
New Chicago Grading System
Chicago’s school history is a testimony to the lack of difference that different reform movements have made; Chicago has tried them all to little avail. Chicago is now trying something else to get its high school graduation rate above 50% (that’s right, 50%). There are two core pieces to this effort, described in this article from […]
Regional Support Centers in NYC
Chalkbeat has a nice piece on the philosophy behind Chancellor Farina’s reorganization of support services. The goal of creating consistency across the city is crucial, but really difficult. I have two short comments. First, the support centers which will have over 200 schools which they support (except for the Staten Island one) AND have one […]
