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May 12, 20153 min read

First Grade Teacher Zeroes in on Rigor

In the media, we are bombarded with stories about teachers who are struggling and frustrated with implementing the Common Core standards...

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Feb 10, 20152 min read

When a Checklist Won't Do the Job

“My students do Close Reading every day at the start of the day. It has really been a great routine for my class”. In a room full of...

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Jan 6, 20152 min read

Must Teaching Really Change in the 21st Century?

Maybe I am just a cranky old man, or maybe I do not understand what others are talking about, or maybe both. I recently read an article...

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Nov 13, 20142 min read

What Should Be the Core of the Common Core?

As all new attempts at curriculum reform, the Common Core has generated its’ share of criticism. Looking back at Whole Language, New...

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Nov 12, 20142 min read

Why Parents Are Frustrated

This is the second installment in the series, What are we doing to ourselves? Over the past several weeks parents, college educated...

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Oct 24, 20142 min read

What are We Doing to Ourselves?

This is first in a series of blogs about how our baby-bathwater/forest-trees mentalities are making us crazy. One of the ways students...

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Sep 15, 20142 min read

I Have Seen This Movie Before

Let me tell you how this latest educational movie, “Effective Instruction in the Common Core,” ends. The movie ends with a predictable...

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Sep 9, 20142 min read

Be the Boss

With the implementation of the Common Core Standards the publishers are at it again. Materials are merely being relabeled as “For Common...

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Sep 7, 20141 min read

Adequate Teacher Training

An article published in Education Week, August 14, 2014, reports teachers feel inadequately prepared for Common Core, even after...

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