A few questions for Joel Klein
According to widespread reports, in your just-published book about your time as chancellor of the New York City Schools, Mr. Klein, you wrote that firing a teacher “took an average of almost two and a...
View ArticleYou’re Invited to T&L2015!
As a member of the advisory board of this exciting event, I am helping promote this conference and I hope you can share this to our colleagues as well. Please join us in celebrating our teaching...
View ArticleNational Board resources & supports in DC
WTU/AFT Teacher Leaders amplifying our voice during a productive education policy conversation with State Superintendent of Education Jesus Aguirre on Saturday, 12.13.2014 at the WTU Headquarters. Dear...
View ArticleInvitation to Teach Your Craft at Learnivore
Happy New Year, everyone! I thought some of you might be interested in teaching your expertise or sharing them with students who are interested to be good at what you do. Just found this one......
View ArticleMizzou NSF postdoc
The University of Missouri’s Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) program is searching for a postdoctoral scholar. The person filling the position would work on designing, delivering, and...
View ArticleNBPTS Academy 2015 in Phoenix AZ #NBCTstrong
I felt so energetic with a new sense of direction after I came back from the recent NBPTS Academy in Phoenix AZ which was attended by more than 170 network leaders from 30 states in the US. The most...
View ArticleOregon Post-doc in academic interventions and assessment
Folks at the University of Oregon’s Center on Teaching & Learning (CTL) are hoping to fill the second year of an IES post-doc with a hard-working, recent Ph.D. graduate interested in academic...
View ArticleECF: Misdirected Teacher Training has Crippled Education Reform
In the summary for a recently released policy analysis, John Stone of the Education Consumers Foundation argued that developmentally appropriate practice (DAP), the widely promoted approach to early...
View ArticleTED pre-conference on-line discussion
The Teacher Education Division of Council for Exceptional Children is fortunate to have Dr. Ann Turnbull and Dr. Mitchell Yell accept our invitation as the Keynote Speakers for the 2015 TED Conference....
View ArticleBrit neuroscientists ding learning styles
In a March 2017 letter to the Guardian, a group of prominent neuroscientists from Great Britain argued expressly against basing instruction on learning styles. They contended that not only are there...
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