If the Sunday forecast for Cape Canaveral was better, nine Tarrant High School students would personally watch as their biological science project lifts off for the International Space Station, inside […]
Kathleen W. Dotts teaches ninth grade honors English at Huntsville High School. Her letter to the editor (below) appeared on the Huntsville Times website October 15th in response to an […]
What do principals and teacher leaders say about the benefits of the Instructional Partnership approach to professional development and coaching? Find out in our video interviews with Instructional Partner Pilot […]
By Jackie Flowers
Instructional Partner
Discovery Middle School
I want to write about how the CCRS math standards are making a positive difference for the students and teachers […]
During the past school year, we’ve written several times about the Alabama Instructional Partners Pilot Program, initiated by the Alabama State Department of Education with professional development support from the […]
Beth Sanders teaches 9th and 11th grade social studies at inner-city Tarrant High School in Birmingham, Alabama, where her students recently participatedin the iCitizenship project. She is also a technology […]
I’m constantly awed by the insights and great ideas being shared by the educators who participate in the Instructional Partners Learning Network. You may recall (I wrote […]
What is ‘essential’ for schools? Three simple things: reasonably coherent curriculum (what we teach); sound lessons (how we teach); and far more purposeful reading and writing in every discipline, or […]
It’s been two weeks, and I am still energized by our A+ Board and Council meeting at Winterboro School in Talladega County.
I’ve blogged about Winterboro […]
Many educators dream of a school environment where the curriculum is driven by projects and problem-based activities that challenge all students to learn more deeply and apply what they learn […]
