 Invisible Ink in Teacher Contracts
When the Cleveland, Ohio, school board had to make radical cuts in its
budget last spring, it was forced to eliminate 540 teaching jobs. There
wasn't a whole lot of mystery about which teachers among Cleveland's 3,500-member teaching force would be the ones to lose their jobs.Find Out More
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 Seven ways to solve the Creativity Crisis
By Glenn Wiebe
There's been a ton of conversation in our office lately about what the future of education looks like in Kansas. With economic issues, core curriculum standards and NCLB concerns on their plate, it seems as if schools are moving backwards towards a 1950s instructional model rather than one focusing on the 21st century.
It's a concern that I know teachers and administrators have but they seem powerless or unwilling to swim against the current. And that's what we've been talking about. Where do we spend our time and resources? What do we focus on?
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ESSDACK's New College Credit Program
ESSDACK has revamped and improved the progam that offers college credit for professional development events. The program makes it possible to pay for that credit in the ESSDACK online store, rather than in person, although some paper feedback forms (available on the day of the workshop) are still required.
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BLOODHOUND and Promethean - Follow the race to the world land speed record!
Interactive learning technology provider, Promethean, has been unveiled as the BLOODHOUND Project's official Interactive Education Technology Partner. As schools and colleges around the world follow the thrilling engineering adventure of building the world's first 1,000mph car and smashing the world land speed record, Promethean will work with the BLOODHOUND Supersonic car team to deliver its education project and engage young people in the science that underpins this challenge.Find Out More
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School change: Gallup's engagement survey
by Steve Wyckoff
I've long preached that the measure we should look at when we talk about
school change, is the degree to which our students are authentically
engaged in the educational process. That isn't a new thought by me, W.
Edwards Deming said it something like this, every child should leave
school loving to learn. If they did everything else would take care of
itself. I couldn't agree more.
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