My NECC 2009 Planner

As the song goes, “there’s just too much to see waiting in front of me and I know that I just can’t go wrong” at NECC this year.  Here is my copy of my NECC Planner. Notice all the double bookings (literally too much to see). I’m doing a Birds of a Feather session on [...]

The Mirage of Standards

As another school year closes for many of us, ask yourself a question: How much time was spent aligning to standards and was that time well spent?  Did you align to the state standards, how about your national curricular association’s standards, don’t forget about the 21st century learning standards, and then there are the many [...]

Waiting for Marzano

Over a month ago, I posted a review of Marzano’s IWB research .  My review focused on the outcomes of his research.  Jon Becker did an excellent, more in-depth review that focused on the methods that Marzano used to conduct his research. Here is a link to Marzano’s Research Here is Becker’s Review; Part I, [...]

Toward Open Textbooks

Government and education are focusing on innovation and change.   One such innovation is the open textbook movement. Recently, California’s governor began an intitative to put an open textbook in the hands of every student in California.   Even the major curricular associations are getting into the act. Through wikis and blogs we can build open [...]