Job Opening – SAGE instructor
Job Description: The Sage Colleges Doctor of Education Program Albany/Troy, New York FACULTY POSITION FOR NEW YORK CITY PROGRAM The Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in the Esteves School of Education at The Sage Colleges invites applications for a full-time faculty position effective summer 2016. The position includes teaching, dissertation supervision and student recruitment and […]
Alaska School Testing Crisis
Alaska just cancelled its federally mandated school testing for 2016. Why? Because a severed fiber optic cable in Kansas created chaos and unreliable tests. The severed cable meant that when students paused, their computers took them back to the start of the test, and only 4% finished the science portion and only 5% finished the […]
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 […]
New Members of Board of Regents
The state legislature has two vacant positions to fill on the Board of Regents. And, miracle of miracles, they think that classroom experience or its lack is actually relevant. Money quote: “the special emphasis [on classroom experience] reflects legislators’ concerns about the recent backlash in much of the state against state testing, teacher evaluations, and […]
Alumni Success – Director of Early Childhood, District 11
Deborah L. Alford is the District 11 Director of Early Childhood Education. Before that, she worked at The James Mc Cune Smith Community School 200, in Harlem, as a Testing Coordinator, Pre-K Supervisor, AIS Liaison, Saturday Academy Instructor for the English Language Learners (ELLS), and Early Childhood Specialist. Deborah graduated in 2008 from Cohort 18 in our […]
Standardized Testing – Surprising Case Study
Jamaal Bowman is a middle school principle in the Bronx’s district 11 with a 99% black and Hispanic population and students who are academically struggling. While they outperform the district as a whole on standardized testing, they underperform relative to city averages with only 23% on grade level for English and 25% for Math. He’s […]
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 […]
