Graphic Designer Sarah Henderson won awards from Bookbuilders of Boston for two Harvard Education Press covers in the "Professional" category. The first winner was for The Blind Advantage: How Going Blind Made Me a Stronger Principal and How Including Children with Disabilities Made Our School Better for Everyone. The judges noted the "beauti […]
The Harvard Education Letter won three awards from the Education Writers Association (EWA) as part of EWA's 2011 National Awards for Education Reporting. EWA recognizes excellence on the education beat across multiple media. Here are the winners: Small Market, Beat Reporting Special Citation – Colleen Gillard, Lucy Hood, Patti Hartigan, Laura Pappano, B […]
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has awarded the 2012 Outstanding Book Award to author H. Richard Milner IV for Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today's Classrooms. This award recognizes exemplary books that make significant contributions to the k […]
Blogger Danielle Moss Lee reviews a number of ways (many of them fun) to keep children engaged during summer break and give them a running start for the new school year. […]
Blogger Larry Ferlazzo and fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, in another excerpt from their book "The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide," share six fun ways to help students develop positive, trusting and enriching classroom relationships. […]
Solving school failure.Where exactly are these 1 in 5 students that fail Ms Parata? In what socio- economic groups are they to be found. The impression politicians give is that 1 in 5 students are failing across all our schools. Maybe the problem to school failure lies outside the school gate?Maybe in certain low socio-economic areas that could be targeted […]
What happens if you do this? What are students 'prior' views about how electricity works? What theories do they have? How can teachers challenge their thinking? Students' ideas 'grow' out of experience. The worst case scenario is for teachers to teach them.I have just listened to a discussion on National Radio about the poor state o […]
It pays to know where you're going -maybe it is time to think of new directions?Schools are busy places. Teachers have such a lot of things to do. I was talking to a relieving teacher last night and she said she was pleased to be a reliever – so much is expected of teachers these days and, in her opinion, these demands were taking teachers’ focus of the […]