Posted in Vinnie Segalini on Jan 21st, 2010 1 Comment »
Data analysis has become a hot-button issue in public education since the advent of No Child Left Behind and standardized testing. Schools are focusing on data and how the data will lead to improved test scores and school success. Small group instruction, interventions, and focus on specific groups of students have proven to increase test [...]
Posted in Dr. Donna Magee, Payne School Improvement Model, Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Over the past several months, I have been working with contacts from the United Kingdom to host a group of teachers who have been selected to come to the States to visit American schools. The purpose of their visit is to learn more about Dr. Payne’s work, as well as other best practices being implemented [...]
Posted in Bethanie Tucker, Mental Models, Strategies & Techniques on Jan 14th, 2010 No Comments »
I almost always experience aha! moments when I hear Ruby Payne speak, and one of her comments at the Bridges National Conference in October was, for me, among the greatest ahas ever. During her session Ruby shared research (Farah et al., 2006) showing that although poverty has a detrimental effect on the development of some [...]
Posted in Bethanie Tucker, Dr. Bethanie Tucker, Strategies & Techniques, Teacher Observations on Jan 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Last week Patti, a kindergarten teacher in the Menominee Indian School District, made my day by sharing a recent occurrence in her classroom: Patti taught both signs for the letter c—the soft and the hard c—to her students, wondering if the five-year olds would understand and remember the concept. Later, during calendar time, she pointed [...]
