EdSpeak: Connecting Teaching to Policy Through Research

Dear America, I want to invite you into my home to play some games. Let’s start with Scrabble! Let’s place all the names of our people together in that complex and crossed way. Let’s make all of our names belong … Continued

Introduction In today’s blog, I have given over the entire issue to published information from NH Department of Education, to explain the use of graduation competencies and how performance assessments will be used to assess those competencies. This information has … Continued

Verbs Drive Rigor In the previous blog last week I ended with the idea that verbs drive rigor. And indeed I submitted an example of the use of verbs when writing lesson objectives for the use of Bloom’s taxonomy and … Continued

Defining creativity is like describing clouds….easier to talk about in general terms, impossible to nail down the specifics. I can always choose the scientific approach, such as, “the first line of cumulus clouds appeared on the horizon…like a bunch of … Continued

Arts learning occurs throughout the K-12 school curriculum. Students experience multiple art forms when they take a music class, paint flowers, act in a play and dance in celebration of earth day. But a unified strategy for arts education is … Continued

One of the ways we understand that children are learning is by what they say to us and what they tell us about what they are learning. Teachers are constantly asking students to demonstrate their learning by showing what they … Continued

The rising complexity of our world has challenged our leadership to respond more quickly. Problems are not just being identified, but also, conservative timelines reveal the need for “action this day,” as Winston Churchill used to say. Challenges “The indispensable … Continued

Little Assessment Scientists When I was in fourth grade, I took my first six exams in the fall, a second 6 in the winter and the final 6 in the spring. I came home to my mother and complained that … Continued

In All Saints Parish a full house listened to Mozart, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Bach and John Rutter’s All Saints In Paradise. The Saturday evening gathering featured the Coolidge Corner Community Chorus performing their annual concert under windows of stain glass. This … Continued