Model School – PS 160 Serves ELL Students
The New York Times published this article on PS 160’s immigrant community, and the services that the school offers to support the students and their families. It’s an impressive all-hands network of ELL and family-involvement strategies driven from the Principal and APs through the teachers and Parent Coordinator. Here’s an excerpt: “P.S. 160, the William T. […]
ELL Classroom Strategies
Engaging English Language Learners in a Mainstream Classroom (ELL Classroom Strategies) By Matt Zagami Students come into classrooms at various stages of language acquisition. Because schools have shied away from self-contained English Language classes, they’ve mixed these students into the general classes. This creates a challenge for the teacher. You could have 25 students in a class, 20 […]
What do Great Principals Do?
Teachers should not feel alone. That’s the premise of this great piece from WNYC. It’s also the core of readings in our SBL courses 505 and 590. In the WNYC piece, David O’Hara argues that great principals do three key things: provide time for teachers to collaborate empower teachers to own their professional development build […]
Closing Schools Do Not Lead to Improved Student Performance
New York, NY – Council of School Supervisors & Administrators President Ernest Logan issued comments on the release of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools report, “High School Closures in New York City:””CSA takes the Research Alliance study at its word that it “cannot identify the precise mechanisms that explain closures impact or […]
School Administration – Improvement Matters
LEADERSHIP MATTERS: A MODEL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION The NY Times has an absolutely fabulous article on PS 172, a school in the city that works fabulously well. The principal, Jack Spatola, has been the principal there since 1984 and his AP has been there for more than twenty years. School administration continuity matters. He also has […]
SBL Instructor Spotlight – Dr. Ellen Margolin
My name is Dr. Ellen Margolin and I have been teaching for the St. Rose/CITE SBL Program since the beginning – in fact I was the first professor hired more than 15 years ago. Currently I teach School Law, although I have taught all of the SBL courses at some point over the past many […]
Back to School Teacher Resources
Back to school resources roundup Welcome back. We missed you… unless you’re in one of our grad courses, administration courses, or counseling courses that met over the summer. In which case, we’re glad to see you so soon. This is our Back to School article and resource roundup for teachers. Please let us know what […]
New Chicago Grading System
Chicago’s school history is a testimony to the lack of difference that different reform movements have made; Chicago has tried them all to little avail. Chicago is now trying something else to get its high school graduation rate above 50% (that’s right, 50%). There are two core pieces to this effort, described in this article from […]
