Vicki Davis with Dr. Jerry Thacker
 | Our guest is a superintendent, passionate about achieving academic excellence despite all obstacles. In this segment he shares how his team leads a top ranked school that has overcome the typical barriers to high academic performance. Follow: @coolcatteacher @bamradionetwork |
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Vicki Davis with Starr Sackstein, Mark Barnes
 | Our guests are behind a movement to eliminate grades completely, but schools and parents have other ideas. Can this effort gain traction? What will be required? Follow: @markbarnes19 @mssackstein @coolcatteacher @bamradionetwork |
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Rae Pica with Mark Barnes, Starr Sackstein, Nancy Flanagan
 | Our guests are behind an initiative to scrap grades. Can we achieve academic goals without grades? What are the obstacles? Follow: @mssackstein @markbarnes19 @NancyFlanagan @bodymindchild @bamradionetwork |
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Tom Whitby, Nancy Blair, Mark Weston
 | If formative assessment is about calibrating both teaching and learning, should formative assessment be graded? Follow: @tomwhitby @blairteach @ShiftParadigm @bamradionetworkEdChat Archive: http://edchat.pbworks.com/ |
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Larry Ferlazzo with Julian Vasquez Heilig, Ph.D., Ben Spielberg
 | In this segment we take a look at the rationale for using high stakes testing and explore other ways to achieve the goal of teacher quality. Follow: @BenSpielberg @ProfessorJVH @larryferlazzo @bamradionetwork |
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Today was our second of four days testing kids. Keep in mind that this is only the ninth day of the new school year. I know that teache ...
Don't show Mama Our Nation's Report Card. Not so good. Tonight I'm sharing my opinions, not a major statistical treatise, but I will tos ...
Here's another analogy to help understand why test-centered accountability doesn't work well. All the heat in my house is run by a single thermosta ...
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Last Sunday afternoon the set was struck and the stage swept clean. We've come to the end of this year's spring musical. As always it was one of the ...
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Recently the Tampa Bay Times reported on a great new program being pursued by Pinellas County schools to raise school ratings. The program could bes ...
What are we grading for? During teacher development I provide, grading is one of the topics most commonly brought up. We as teachers have an obsess ...
“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, p ...
Do you teach well? How do you determine the merit of your teaching? How do you relay this information to others? It's difficult to be object ...
Giving students opportunities to express their knowledge is important. But students are sometimes limited in their capabilities to show understandin ...
I've found myself trying to explain the difference between norm and standards reference multiple times in the last few weeks, which means it's time ...
The sun is setting on yet another school year. It is about this time that teachers start talking about how kids have checked out, senioritis ...
One of the holy grails of ed reform is comparability. The aim is a score or grade or rating that allows us to say definitively that Hypothetical Hig ...
What are we doing to our children? You would think a third grader living with cystic fibrosis who is a competitive swimmer would not be distressed a ...
When my son was in his first year of kindergarten, his teacher had an eight-level behaviour management system based on insects. If you had a r ...
Critical thinking is one of the Great White Whales of education. Every new education reform promises to foster it, and every new generation of Big S ...
It’s no secret that cheating and academic dishonesty are rampant in schools across the country. In a recent Edutopia article by Pr ...
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