Marshall+Memos+2012-13

Dear Penn Center Readers,

Lindsay Shafer has asked me to add you to the list of Marshall Memo subscribers, courtesy of the Penn Center for Educational Leadership (PCEL) as part of your participation in the Distributed Leadership Program.

Welcome! I'm attaching the current issues. The Memo should start arriving regularly every Tuesday.

For access to back issues and a search engine that can locate articles by topic, author, etc., just go to www.marshallmemo.com and log in by typing Penn in the e-mail box and Center in the password box.

I hope the Memo is helpful.

Best wishes,

Kim Marshall

=** In This Issue:  **=
 * Marshall Memo 482 **
 * 1. [|__Keys to effective professional development__] **
 * 2. [|__The ideal workplace__] **
 * 3. [|__Maximizing a student teacher’s learning__] **
 * 4. [|__Possible downsides with “no excuses” policies in some charter schools__] **
 * 5. [|__A new frame of mind: whole-mindedness__] **
 * 6. [|__What art did for one child__] **
 * 7. [|__With a leader’s signature, does size matter?__] **
 * 8. [|__The wisdom of Maya Angelou__] **
 * 9. Short items: (a) [|__A science website__;] (b) [|__Help with Algebra 1__] **

=** In This Issue:  **=
 * Marshall Memo 481 **
 * 1. [|__David Brooks on the purpose of universities__] **
 * 2. [|__Can software grade students’ essays?__] **
 * 3. [|__Professional learning communities as a core improvement strategy__] **
 * 4. [|__Focusing short classroom visits on what students are learning__] **
 * 5. [|__A Boston middle school shows the way__] **
 * 6. [|__Teaching character in KIPP schools__] **
 * 7. [|__How principals can keep teachers from losing heart__] **
 * 8. [|__The importance of spatial ability__] **
 * 9. [|__Getting students involved in authenticating historical fiction__] **
 * 10. [|__A teacher-in-training encourages the “growth” mindset__] **
 * 11. [|__Restorative justice in urban high schools__] **
 * 12. Short item: __ [|Model curriculum units] __ **

=** In This Issue:  **=
 * Marshall Memo 480 **
 * 1. [|__Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins on “essential questions”__] **
 * 2. [|__Teaching a hot topic: global warming__] **
 * 3. [|__How should principals be evaluated?__] **
 * 4. [|__Dealing with teachers who undermine the mission or retire on the job__] **
 * 5. [|__Boosting the achievement of black and Latino high-school males__] **
 * 6. [|__Spotting students who are suffering from depression__] **
 * 7. [|__Further thoughts on the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study__] **
 * 8. [|__Your decision, my decision, or our decision?__] **
 * 9. [|__Computers grading students’ papers – some push-back__] **
 * ** 10. Short items: (a) [|__Class pager__;] (b) [|__Student design experiences__;] (c) [|__Earth Day website__]  ** **

=** In This Issue:  **=
 * Marshall Memo 479 **
 * 1. [|__Are new teacher-evaluation systems making a difference?__] **
 * 2. [|__Research on teacher pay-for-performance programs__] **
 * 3. [|__Superintendents’ part in high-quality supervision and evaluation__] **
 * 4. [|__The role of intelligence in school and adult success__] **
 * 5. [|__The effect of teenagers’ choice of friends on college completion__] **
 * 6. [|__Using video to improve classroom practices__] **
 * 7. [|__What’s involved in teaching an effective online course__] **
 * 8. [|__Getting struggling high-school students back on track__] **
 * 9. [|__Does dual enrollment work?__] **
 * ** 10. [|__The impact of a volunteer tutoring program in Northern Ireland__]  ** **

=** In This Issue:  **= =** (c) [|__Using Dropbox for student work and grading__;] (d) [|__Are you an introvert?__]  **=
 * Marshall Memo 478 **
 * 1. [|__A teacher who loves seventh graders__] **
 * 2. [|__Should shame be used to curb teen pregnancy?__] **
 * 3. [|__Why aren’t women’s academic successes paying off in the workplace?__] **
 * 4. [|__Seven ways RTI can fail__] **
 * 5. [|__Raising the bar for Hispanic students__] **
 * 6. [|__A teacher learns the ropes “flipping” instruction__] **
 * 7. [|__Are contracts and regulations really a barrier to change?__] **
 * 8. [|__The death of “whom”__] **
 * 9. [|__Two important words__] **
 * 10. [|__Science websites__] **
 * 11. Short items: (a) [|__Graphs of American immigration__;] (b) [|__Intellectual freedom in libraries__;] **

=** In This Issue: **=
 * Marshall Memo 477 **
 * 1. [|“No excuses” schools grapple with the college-completion challenge] **
 * 2. [|Even top students may not be college-ready] **
 * 3. [|A Georgia high school listens to student-survey feedback] **
 * 4. [|Keys to effective teacher development and evaluation] **
 * 5. [|A whole new curriculum for a whole new world] **
 * 6. [|How principals can address generational differences among teachers] **
 * 7. [|Robert Marzano on student engagement] **
 * 8. [|An upper-elementary performance task on elapsed time] **
 * 9. [|Probing and pushing students’ math thinking] **
 * 10. Short item: [|Lesson and unit websites] **

=** In This Issue: **=
 * Marshall Memo 476 **
 * 1. [|Handling seven interpersonal challenges with skill and grace] **
 * 2. [|Fourteen traits of good leaders] **
 * 3. [|How to deal with bad advice] **
 * 4. [|Should schools teach about love?] **
 * 5. [|Rethinking schooling for the new information age] **
 * 6. [|With new teachers, first impressions are usually accurate] **
 * 7. [|What does the first year of high school say about future prospects?] **
 * 8. [|Are online college courses widening the achievement gap?] **
 * 9. [|Developing students’ computational literacy] **
 * 10. Short items: (a) [|Wealth inequality in America] [|;] (b) [|Electronic field trips] **

=** In This Issue: **=
 * Marshall Memo 475 **
 * 1. [|Compensating for the shortcomings of basal readers] **
 * 2. [|An Arizona high-school teacher embraces the Common Core] **
 * 3. [|An educator shifts her thinking in three key areas] **
 * 4. [|Twenty-three facets of teaching – and what they imply for teachers] **
 * 5. [|Twelve ways to blow a job interview] **
 * 6. [|Dealing with acting-out students with skill, not meds] **
 * 7. [|Ways to improve the College Scorecard website] **
 * 8. [|Can non-native speakers teach a foreign language well?] **
 * 9. [|How teachers can capitalize on a student’s family trip] **
 * 10. Short item: [|Websites for students to share their reading life] **

=** In This Issue: **= =** 1. [|Three approaches to dealing with cyberbullying]  **=
 * Marshall Memo 474 **
 * 2. [|The death of logic in a college classroom] **
 * 3. [|An astrophysicist sounds off] **
 * 4. [|Which students get into eighth-grade algebra?] **
 * 5. [|How can teachers encourage and assess creativity?] **
 * 6. [|What makes the most difference in sustaining a good program?] **
 * 7. [|The arts are essential to STEM progress] **
 * 8. [|Helping students with specific learning disabilities learn vocabulary] **
 * 9. [|Keys to learning a new language] **
 * 10. [|The “social contagion” theory of good and bad grades] **
 * 11. Websites: (a) [|A game about germs] [|;] (b) [|Dual-language and two-way immersion programs] [|;] **
 * (c) [|A Latin assessment] [|;] (d) [|Language-learning games] [|;] (e) [|Translating from any language] [|;] **
 * (f) [|The White House website in Spanish] [|;] (g) [|Language learning website] **

=** In This Issue: **=
 * Marshall Memo 473 **
 * 1. [|Motivational style as a key consideration for leaders] **
 * 2. [|What is creativity and how should it be taught?] **
 * 3. [|Using Google+ Hangouts to discuss physics curriculum and assessments] **
 * 4. [|Vocabulary instruction that makes a difference] **
 * 5. [|Technology tips from a Kentucky teacher] **
 * 6. [|Robert Marzano on four levels of classroom questioning] **
 * 7. [|Busted, chastened, and enlightened] **
 * 8. [|A defense of standardized testing] **
 * 9. Short item: [|The Freshman Transition Network] **

=** In This Issue: **= 1. [|Worriers or warriors: who does better in high-stress situations?] ** 2. [|Applying Maslow’s hierarchy with New Zealand teens]  ** 3. [|The art of taking criticism]
 * Marshall Memo 472 **
 * 4. [|Dealing with students’ sexualized behavior in the classroom] **
 * 5. [|Effective use of interim assessments] **
 * 6. [|Comparing science achievement among 15-year-olds worldwide] **
 * 7. Short items: (a) [|Beat-the-odds schools] [|;] (b) [|Model curriculum units in Massachusetts] [|;] **
 * (c) [|HATs: History Assessments of Thinking] [|;] (d) [|A miniature historical rooms game] [|;] **
 * (e) [|Let’s Go 5-2-1-0] [|;] (f) [|Essay contest on interviewing an older adult] [|;] (g) [|Nutrition videos] **

=** In This Issue: **= 1. [|Stopping adult sexual misconduct in schools]
 * Marshall Memo 471 **
 * 2. [|Weeping in the workplace] **
 * 3. [|Planning for a difficult conversation with a teacher] **
 * 4. [|How educators sometimes “enable” students (an oldie but goodie)] **
 * 5. [|Can parent involvement be a negative factor in a school?] **
 * 6. [|Some concerns about Facebook] **
 * 7. [|The case for renaming “noncognitive skills”] **
 * 8. [|Getting ambivalent high-school students into college] **
 * 9. [|A program to curb adolescent drinking] **
 * 10. [|Blogs for counselors] **

=** In This Issue: **= 1. [|The mindsets that foster “productive persistence” in students]
 * Marshall Memo 470 **
 * 2. [|When students study on their own, what works and what doesn’t?] **
 * 3. [|Using essential questions to improve a high-school history course] **
 * 4. [|A teacher gets the most out of an iPad in her classroom] **


 * Marshall Memo 469 **

=** In This Issue: **= ** 1. [|Two books on developing character in students]  **
 * 2. [|A survivor of sexual abuse speaks out] **
 * 3. [|Insights on why so few Latina youth are going to college] **
 * 4. [|Getting middle-school students to write their hearts out] **
 * 5. [|Measuring the quality of math instruction] **
 * 6. [|Graphs on the MET Project’s teacher-evaluation scheme] **
 * 7. [|Interactive modeling in action] **
 * 8. [|Common Core implementation can be whimsical] **
 * 9. [|What good are multiple-choice tests?] **
 * 10. [|Graphic novels in the classroom and the school library] **
 * 11. [|A middle-school curriculum unit on persuasion] **
 * 12. [|What busy principals can do to reach out to families] **
 * 13. [|A free survey of parent involvement] **
 * 14. Short item: [|Curiosity is the key] **


 * Marshall Memo 468 **

=** In This Issue: **= ** 1. [|The Measures of Effective Teaching Project issues its final report]  **
 * 2. [|John Wooden, teacher extraordinaire] **
 * 3. [|James Popham on formative assessment’s moment in the sun] **
 * 4. [|Eight suggestions for improving parent-teacher relations] **
 * 5. [|Peer leaders boost achievement in a New York City high school] **
 * 6. [|A radically different approach to foreign-language instruction] **
 * 7. [|Should a candidate use an iPad during an interview?] **
 * 8. [|The key to long-term memory] **
 * 9. Short item: [|Drug-addiction statistics] **

=** In This Issue: **=
 * Marshall Memo 467 **
 * 1. [|How did Finland’s schools get so good?] **
 * 2. [|Six key strategic leadership skills] **
 * 3. [|Is teenage sleep deprivation a serious problem?] **
 * 4. [|Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell reflect on guided reading] **
 * 5. [|Helping students with autism meet Common Core ELA standards] **
 * 6. [|A principal shifts his focus to working with teacher teams] **
 * 7. [|A Boston teacher residency program under the microscope] **
 * 8. Short items: (a) [|A Literacy Design Collaborative website] [|;] **
 * (b) [|Questions to ask vendors about Common Core alignment] **

This week's articles are from The New York Times, American Educator (more next week), Harvard Education Letter, The New Yorker, Kappan, Campus Technology, Teachers College Record, and PEN Weekly NewsBlast (which, alas, is going out of business). Here are the headlines: - Three case studies on the widening achievement gap - Boosting the achievement of low-income students - Charter schools and students with special needs - Does homework widen the achievement gap? - How superintendents should work with their principals - Teaching students with Asperger to deal with anxiety - Online courses are harder to teach than you think - How can students learn to collaborate? - Preventing principal burnout - Rethinking Howard Zinn's classic book, "A People's History of the United States" - Websites with geography games and literacy resources My very best wishes for the year ahead! Marshall Memo 466

Words cannot express my sorrow for what happened last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut. The principal, Dawn Hocksprung, was a Marshall Memo reader and I grieve for her, the children, the teachers, the families, and the community. We must come together as a nation and take steps to prevent such unspeakable tragedies.

This week's quotes and articles come from Kappan (more next week), Journal of Staff Development, Wharton Leadership Nano Tools for Leaders, Harvard Educational Review, Education Next, JESPAR, Educational Horizons, ASCA School Counselor, The New York Times Learning Network, Education Week, and Teaching Children Mathematics. The headlines:

- What witnesses of bullying do - and why - E.D. Hirsch takes issue with Paul Tough's book, "How Children Succeed" - Problems implementing interim assessments in several high schools - Why some students are silent in the classroom - Five pointers for accommodating a student with Asperger syndrome - New factors for college-bound students to consider - Ten geography activities for secondary students - A NAEP report on the vocabulary achievement gap - Books on children with disabilities - Why learn math?

This week's articles come from Educational Leadership (including a Madeline Hunter article from 1986 that I stumbled upon in my files), Principal Leadership, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Education Next (more next week). Here are the headlines: - Madeline Hunter on pre-observation conferences (an oldie but goodie) - Fostering a "growth" mindset in students - Practice as a key to improving supervisory conversations - Comparing the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments - High-school rank declines as a criterion for college admissions - A four-step plan for more meaningful grades and report cards - Marilyn Burns's online math assessment tool - Close reading in the elementary grades - Robert Marzano on analyzing complex texts - Does a double dose of algebra help?

This week's quotes and articles come from The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Educational Leadership (more next week), The Reading Teacher, The District Management Journal, Review of Educational Research, Edudemic, and The New York Times. Here are the headlines: - How to unleash creativity - Five myths about the common core ELA standards - What should "close reading" look like in elementary classrooms? - A Pennsylvania district's priorities in literacy - Leveling the reading-writing playing field for boys - Learning a rich English vocabulary in Japan - What works best for elementary-school ELLs? - Five ways to waste the potential of classroom iPads - How to make wise resource-allocation decisions - David Brooks on changing bad behavior

This week's articles come from Kappan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Principal Leadership, Education Week, Theory Into Practice, Knowledge Quest, Developmental Psychology, The Language Educator, and two websites. The headlines: - Coaching and managing principals to be instructional leaders - Can a leader be effective and liked? - A Missouri high school works on relationships with students - High-school seniors take freshmen under their wings - Some key changes with the common-core standards - Common-core aligned basal readers - or something different? - Four key classroom practices that boost ELLs' achievement - Helping students improve Google searches - How to maximize teenage learning - Which consonant strategy works best for beginning readers? - Websites with U.S. election maps, foreign-language videos and content, and resources for comparing student work It will amuse you to know the the "professorial-looking man" mentioned in the second paragraph of this New York Times article about Amtrak's Quiet Car was me: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/the-quiet-ones.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0. The writer, Bill Kreider, perfectly described this "difficult conversation."

This week's articles come from Kappan (more next week), Kappa Delta Pi Record (more next week), The Chronicle of Higher Education, Knowledge Quest, and Education Week. The headlines: - Student survey data as part of teacher evaluation - How to make short, frequent, unannounced classroom visits work - More problems with value-added evaluation of teachers - Los Angeles experiments with a new teacher-evaluation system - Is favoritism wrong? - School librarians as part of professional learning communities - Websites on youth civic participation, union strength around the U.S., and professional learning networks for librarians.

This week's quotes and articles come from Kappan (more next week), Educational Leadership, Teaching Children Mathematics, Educational Researcher, The Reading Teacher, Reading Today, Harvard Magazine, and Principal Leadership (more next week). The headlines: - A stinging critique of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project - More concerns about the MET project - Carol Ann Tomlinson on what evaluations should be - Robert Marzano on conducting accurate teacher evaluations - Differentiation in a third-grade math class - The impact of school climate on LGBTQ youth - Dealing sensitively with issues surrounding adoption and foster care - Books on children navigating two languages - A surprising effect of soda drinking - Recommended children's books, a Math Common Core Toolbox, and an ethical thinking game.

This week's articles come from Educational Leadership (more next week), Education Week, The Reading Teacher (more next week), and The Chronicle of Higher Education. The headlines: - Charlotte Danielson on effective observation and follow-up - Robert Marzano on two layers of teacher evaluation - Weekly supervision and coaching of teachers in Newark, New Jersey - When evaluating teachers, what works best, high-tech or low-tech? - Key success factors with Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) - Literacy intervention teachers implement their theory of action - Principles of teaching on a Navajo reservation - A New Mexico teacher decides to wear a tie to school Prepare for more articles on teacher supervision and evaluation in the next couple of Memos. Both Educational Leadership and Kappan devoted their November issues to this topic. And I'm sure I don't have to remind you to VOTE!

This week's articles come from The Atlantic, Kappan, Harvard Education Letter, Education Week, Teaching Exceptional Children, Harvard Business Review, Educational Horizons, Johns Hopkins University, Jobs for the Future, and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Here are the headlines:

- Thoughts from David Allen, "Getting Things Done" author - How principals can get control of their time - The misuse of statistical correlations - What high-school students should learn about race - Problems with value-added teacher evaluation in secondary schools - The potential of computer games in schools - Different approaches to online learning - A California KIPP school uses blended learning - Using blogs to improve writing, especially for students with learning disabilities - Web 2.0 tools to boost writing proficiency - Ian McEwan reflects on the writing process - Bad dreams teachers have - and what they mean - The payoff of early-college programs for high-school students - The state of U.S. teacher unions, an interactive look at the universe, NEA's website, and Common Core advice



This week's articles come from The New York Times, Phi Delta Kappan (more next week), Teaching Children Mathematics, The Language Educator, Wharton Leadership Digest, PEN Weekly NewsBlast, and the Hechinger Report. Here are the headlines:

- Push-back on using test scores to evaluate teachers <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- New teacher-evaluation procedures in Colorado <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Two "flipped classroom" gurus share some pointers <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- A high school finds numerous advantages to "flipping" math classes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Differentiating instruction in Seattle elementary classrooms <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Advice on differentiating math teaching <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Using the target foreign language 90% or more of classroom time <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- What questions reveal about a leader's mindset <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- A status report on U.S. children <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Math apps for Androids <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- PARCC and Smarter Balanced test items <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- French holiday activities <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Classroom videos

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles and quotes come from Teachers College Record, American Educator, Elementary School Journal, Middle Ground, Education Week, Educational Leadership, and The Journal of Learning Sciences. The headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- How school working conditions affect teachers and students <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Key characteristics of beat-the-odds principals <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- The impact of teacher self-efficacy on student achievement <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Making homework meaningful - and less of a burden <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Dealing with boredom in the classroom <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Major misconceptions about classroom discipline <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Understanding students with Tourette Syndrome <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Robert Marzano suggests ideas for exit tickets <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- How to be discerning about new educational products

This week's articles come from The Wall Street Journal, American Educational Research Journal, Educational Leadership (more next week), Rethinking Schools, Education Week, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and American Educator (more next week). The headlines:

- Are we smarter than our ancestors 100 years ago? - What drives turnover - and staying power - in early-career teachers? - Empowering students to combat bullying - Ways to help ADHD students - Strategies with autistic students - Lisa Delpit on race, diversity, and teachers fulfilling their potential - Will new math tests match the quality of the Common Core standards? - An opponent of online college courses changes his mind - Salman Khan on his evolving vision - A critic tees off on Salman Khan

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Today's articles come from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The Reading Teacher, Principal Leadership, American School Board Journal, and Teaching Children Mathematics. The headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- College students try a social-media "sabbath" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- The power of social norms to change behavior <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Teaching struggling high-school students to write <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- When determining students' reading levels, proceed with caution <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Five common legal misconceptions <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Tenure and classroom improvement <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Four ways to build resilience <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Free math apps for iPads <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">FYI, the Jay McTighe/Grant Wiggins paper on Common Core that I summarized last week is available at <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">@http://jaymctighe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/McTighe_Wiggins_FINAL_Common_Core_Standards.pdf

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles and quotes come from Education Next, The Atlantic (more next week), Principal, a privately circulated paper by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, Education Week, and Harper's. Here are the headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- The MET project combines three measures for teacher evaluation <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Cincinnati's intensive teacher-evaluation process gets results <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Using student survey data as part of teachers' evaluations <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Dealing with eight types of difficult and resistant staff <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- McTighe and Wiggins on implementing the Common Core Standards <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Nine ways to maximize differentiation in classrooms <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Academic gains from a program teaching social-emotional skills

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles come from Kappan, Educational Leadership, The New York Times, and Education Week. Several magazines are on deck for next week - this is a busy season for publications! Here are this week's headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Highlights of the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll on American public education <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- The dramatic turnaround of two Welsh schools <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- When coaching teachers, practice makes perfect <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Working smart with corrective feedback <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Six characteristics of effective feedback <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Alternatives to the traditional question-and-answer dynamic <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- The malpractice of over-parenting <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- What kinds of reports do parents really want on their children? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Supporting common-core implementation online <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Robert Marzano on teaching argumentation

This week's articles come from Educational Leadership, Elementary School Journal, Reading Today, Smithsonian Magazine, Education Gadfly, Anguished English, and the New York State Education Department. The headlines:

- Twelve factors in a strong school culture (an oldie but goodie article) - How does school culture affect teachers' sense of efficacy (another oldie but goodie) - From traditional spelling instruction to effective word study - Why are Finland's students doing so well? - Does "just right" reading help students grow? - Skype talks with children's book authors - Recommended children's books - Do-Now ideas for English classes - Common Core sample questions - Five historical misconceptions

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles come from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Foreign Language Annals, and Education Update. Here are the headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Noncognitive factors as levers for improving academic achievement <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Improving the dreary state of academic writing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Five ways NOT to teach vocabulary <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- High-leverage teaching practices for math and foreign language <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Opinions on giving feedback <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Is it important for nonnative speakers to lose their accents?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles come from American Educator, Exceptional Children, Teaching Exceptional Children, The National Education Policy Center, and Psychology Today. Here are the headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Teaching evolution in the U.S.A. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Catching math learning problems early <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Universal design for teaching science <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Skillful use of interactive whiteboards in science classrooms <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Another look at the Los Angeles value-added data on teachers <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- How do clothes affect behavior?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles come from Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Military Review, Teacher, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, and The New York Times. Here are the headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Atul Gawande on how to get better <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- "Commander's intent" in the U.S. Army - and K-12 schools <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- A teacher learns from his students' analysis of a classroom videotape <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Building vocabulary in primary-grade classrooms <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- The impact of daily interactive writing on first-grade achievement <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Summer reading ideas for secondary-school students <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Transitional chapter books featuring African-American girls

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles come from Harvard Business Review, School Administrator, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Education Week, and The Education Gadfly. Here are the headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Managers: Get the monkey off your back! (an oldie but goodie article from 1974) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Jim Collins on successful leadership in tough times <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Hidden s* abuse in an elite private school (if I don't put those asterixes in there, my e-mail will get blocked) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- What's up with teenagers? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Does improving working memory make people smarter? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Content knowledge and the Common Core <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Dealing with senior slump

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week's articles come from Rethinking Schools, Education Week, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New York Times. Here are the headlines:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Peer Assistance and Review in Montgomery County <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- An argumnent against test-score evaluation of teacher <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- How can making learning more difficult improve learning? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- How good is good enough? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- How to deal with humans' built-in sweet tooth <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Cheating in online courses <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- A quiz on neuroscience and neuromyths <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- A call to arms on ELL education <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Answers to the neuroscience quiz

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