There is a lot of pressure on parents to raise successful kids. There is a lot of discussion of the importance of parental involvement in their child’s education as being…
read moreOne truism about education is that it is subject to trends. This can be seen in a positive or negative light, but the reality is that the efforts are directed…
read moreProblem or opportunity…? It’s all in how you frame it. Such is ‘the framing effect.’ One of the tricks of the mind, and a key to how one is able…
read moreEvery two years, parents of children in grades 4, 8 and 12 are informed that their children will participate in the standardized test known as NAEP. This stands for the…
read moreWriting, love it or hate it, has become central to the Language Arts curriculum and there are some very good reasons for its dominance in current teaching expectations. Writing is…
read moreThere is a good deal of talk about the ‘skills gap’ and how the educational system must address this reality through curriculum design and teaching practices. The skills gap that…
read moreOne of the interesting things about cognitive studies, or studies of how the brain works, is that oftentimes a piece of research into an area like medical research can also…
read moreA Gap Year is the year between high school and college in which students take on learning challenges, but one’s that are beyond the classroom. Gap Year programs or self-initiatives…
read moreOne of the key phrases tossed around when discussing instruction and assessment is “Bloom’s Taxonomy.” What this is is a classification system for the intellectual behaviors students will go through…
read moreInnovative thinking comes about from the little bits of what we know and the unexpected convergences of how we think. Innovative thinking is transformative; it takes an idea and uses…
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