Well the hits keep coming for MCPS. This morning’s paper carried the headline Md. Tests A Blow To Two Counties: Schools Fall Short In Montgomery And Pr. George’s. Ouch. Educationally speaking, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties are a world apart. But when it comes to hurdling Maryland’s ever-rising bar for academic achievement, the two school [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Who’s Deluding Whom?
Posted in In the News, School, tagged education, elementary school, high school, Jerry Weast, maryland, math, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, NCLB, red zone, School, testing on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Happy Banned Books Week!
Posted in In the News, Interesting on September 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yes, September 26-October 3, 2009 is National Banned Books Week! Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by [...]
Back to School Night: Sophomore Edition
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged education, high school, MCPS, montgomery county, School, teacher, teen on September 26, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Another year, another back to school night. Yes, this week we once more joined the herd of dazed and confused parents navigating the three floors and winding hallways of C.’s high school. She did us the favor this time of providing room numbers for about half her classes so we weren’t quite as lost. Observations: [...]
Graduation Rate Falls, Embarrassment for MCPS
Posted in In the News, School, tagged education, Gifted, high school, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, NCLB, School, testing on September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ouch. That has to hurt. Amid all the recent Blue Ribbon School hoopla about yet another red zone school that has made stunning progress (we won’t mention the unusually high staffing helped used to achieve that–see the application) comes the news that, as my feed reader so nicely put it, “Montgomery Graduations Sink to Lowest [...]
Did You Know 4.0
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is another official update to the original “Shift Happens” video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence. more about "Did You Know 4.0 ", posted with vodpod
How did I miss this?
Posted in Gifted, tagged education, elementary school, exceptionally gifted, Gifted, highly gifted, profoundly gifted, teacher on September 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Boy I’m behind in my reading. How did I miss this post by Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant? A reading teacher contacted him for suggestions of a “reading program for an extraordinarily bright 5th grader.” She said, This child is special and I don’t want to lose him due to boredom or have him become [...]
Go Laura, Sorry Kay
Posted in Gifted, tagged acceleration, education, elementary school, exceptionally gifted, Gifted, high school, highly gifted, maryland, math, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy, profoundly gifted, School, verbally gifted on September 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Well I just forked over my $2.95 per article to Education Week in order to read Laura Vanderkam’s article, Whatever Happened to Grade Skipping (Aug. 12)–and a response by Kay Williams, MCPS’s Director of the Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction, District Cited Does Does Have Options for ‘Acceleration‘ (Sept. 15). Laura writes about both [...]
The Devil is in the Details
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged differentiation, education, elementary school, Gifted, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, School on September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As part of the AEI (Accelerated and Enriched Instruction) team presentation to the Board of Education on September 8, Kay Williams screened a video ostensibly demonstrating differentiated instruction. Which elicited this response from a parent: I am going to LOSE my mind. The differentiation video (http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/development/resources/Differentiation%20Principles/player.html) is the SAME video I saw in an MCPS [...]
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