One year later, I have another argument to add to my July 2009  Case for Filmmaking in the Classroom post: Filmmaking empowers students. In May I watched a  team of Lesley McKillop’s students (see argument #6 in last year’s post) once again step onto the stage and into the limelight to accept a 2010 SEVA [...]

Bringing students on board with writing is not an easy task. Finding ways for them to see that they’re improving as writers is equally challenging. I love Larry Ferlazzo’s method for students to track their growth. In his post My Revised Final Exam (And an Important Lesson), Larry shares a simple but powerful 3-step strategy: [...]

I know that some of you take issue with my occasional questioning the value of the Accelerated Reader program in a 21st century classroom. As of today, when I write about AR, I’ll be referring to Augmented Reality, not Accelerated Reader. As a write this post, I’m downloading the cAR Locator app to my iPhone, [...]

Imagine hearing the peaceful music of the harp drifting across an elementary school campus at the close of a busy school day. This image might bring to mind enrichment programs typical of more affluent school sites. But if 4th grade teacher Teresa Cheung is awarded a Pepsi Grant, students at David Reese Elementary School, a [...]