JOB – Educational Director
The East Harlem Block Nursery has asked us to post a job opening for them. Please direct all inquiries their way. POSITION: Educational Director (Job Description follows) LOCATION: East Harlem Block Nursery (EHBN – Nursery #3) – 1299 Amsterdam Avenue START DATE: Immediately SALARY RANGE: $55,000 to $60,000 (negotiable) Position Summary: EHBN, Inc. is a community-based […]
The Teacher Shortage is Coming
We just saw an article that had two interesting pieces of information about an impending teacher shortage. The first really interesting piece of information is that in a four year period, people enrolled in teacher education majors went from 79,000 to 42,000 in New York State. That’s an enormous decline. It wouldn’t matter so much […]
NJ Standardized Test Problems
Adding to our post from the other day about Alaska’s test troubles, we now have this story from New Jersey where students were left staring at blank screens instead of taking the standardized test. New Jersey blamed Pearson, Pearson deferred questions to the PARCC consortium which Pearson formed but is a group of states who […]
Test Prep in a Renewal School
WNYC has a nice audio piece on test prep done right, in a renewal school. The renewal school seems to understand that testing results are a function of how well they teach all year long. They are using, though they don’t use this term, “formative” assessments to understand where they are weak and then giving […]
Job Opening – SAGE instructor
Job Description: The Sage Colleges Doctor of Education Program Albany/Troy, New York FACULTY POSITION FOR NEW YORK CITY PROGRAM The Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in the Esteves School of Education at The Sage Colleges invites applications for a full-time faculty position effective summer 2016. The position includes teaching, dissertation supervision and student recruitment and […]
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 […]
Alumni Success – Director of Early Childhood, District 11
Deborah L. Alford is the District 11 Director of Early Childhood Education. Before that, she worked at The James Mc Cune Smith Community School 200, in Harlem, as a Testing Coordinator, Pre-K Supervisor, AIS Liaison, Saturday Academy Instructor for the English Language Learners (ELLS), and Early Childhood Specialist. Deborah graduated in 2008 from Cohort 18 in our […]
Standardized Testing – Surprising Case Study
Jamaal Bowman is a middle school principle in the Bronx’s district 11 with a 99% black and Hispanic population and students who are academically struggling. While they outperform the district as a whole on standardized testing, they underperform relative to city averages with only 23% on grade level for English and 25% for Math. He’s […]
