Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages Through Our Student’s Eyes

It’s the day during the summer that every school teacher, principal, district administrator, superintendent, parents and kids all wait for with bated breath. That’s right kiddies…it’s school grade time based on FCAT scores. I’ve gone back and forth since I got home from my day trip to my school to try and hammer out a [...]

More fallout from the “faulty” FCAT it looks like. Let the finger wagging begin. Read in the local paper that the Florida Senate is going to launch a probe into what went wrong. How quaint eh? Then I came across this post on the Orlando Sentinel’s School Zone Blog, Orlando Sentinel – Third Grade Goof: [...]

Yes, I know…”Not more assessment talk Tom!” But I swear, this is good news. Just read this article from Teacher Magazine on South Carolina’s decision to scale back on testing some areas to one every couple of years. I won’t regurgitate my position on testing, just merely restate that taking the test that first or [...]

Teacher Magazine: Fla. Teachers Press for Changes
Danielle A. over at tie4teachers talked about this the other day. One of her friends was lucky enough to be invited for this chat. Here’s hoping he ‘gets’ what the teachers are talking about. What I wouldn’t do to get invited to one of these sit downs.

I must [...]

Down to 11 days left to the end of the year. My the last 1/2 went FAST. I can hardly believe that January is when I found out I would be leaving the classroom and moving to a technology specialists position. Days and weeks now are but a blur…even this weekend.
I had my new toy, [...]

I think Wesley Fryer summed it up best over at his “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” blog:
Rather than adopting policies about technologies that are banned, school districts would be better advised to have their teachers craft new assessments. Our goal should not be, “How can we maintain our instructional and assessment paradigms from the [...]