| 1. | 2/22/2008 6:24:00 PM | this has not been a priority at the high school level - too often the current practice is for the student to fit into the design of the teacher, instead of the teaching style being reflective of the learner |
| 2. | 3/5/2008 3:05:00 AM | Allignment - I believe that all our elementary schools are good, but I think that there is definitly an attitude in the community that certain schools are better than others. Which schools have the most school choice enrollment? |
| 3. | 3/14/2008 8:01:00 AM | So much jargon here! If by "professional learning community" you mean a classroom, then I question if alignment (standardizing curriculum and centralizing testing?) is healthy for student learning. I also think assessment, if not used as a formative tool, can be overdone and is really for parents and schools more than student learning. Do we feel that learning is an instinct that can be trusted? Or a faulty mechanism that needs constant checking? Do we trust our teachers and students to be able to develop and relate to each other and talk about interesting and important things? Or do we fearfully cedethe content of their conversations to central designers and hope we haven't sucked the life out of our students and the enthusiasm from our educators? Do we value diversity of skills? Then we shouldn't so strongly value that each child is learning from the same text books and being taught the same lessons at roughly the same speed. We are limiting ourselves with our trending toward standardizing content and tests. |
| 4. | 4/16/2008 5:34:00 PM | It is obviously working. |