Lately it seems like every teacher I know is working with a new initiative aimed at raising student test scores. Sound familiar? Sometimes there are so many competing programs in one school, it's difficult to tell what is supposed to be driving instruction. Where is the instructional leadership in all this? The PBS series POV takes that question to two elementary school principals (one school is k-8) and chronicles their experience over the course of a year. The show, which airs Sept. 15, promises to be interesting viewing as it pushes us to recognize we are all caught in this web.
In New Mexico
- New Mexico Council of Teachers of English
- New Mexico State University Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- NM Language Arts Content Standards and Benchmarks
- Public Ed. Dept. Professional Licensure Unit
- Teach New Mexico (includes information on 3-tiered licensure and dossiers)
- Teaching Jobs in New Mexico
- Univ. of New Mexico Dept. of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
- Univ. of New Mexico Secondary Education Program
Beyond New Mexico
Writing Project Sites
Research
- 21st Century Literacies: What are they and why are they important?
- The Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners
- Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School
- Guidelines for Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well
- The Effect of Grammar Instruction on Student Writing
- What Research Says about Writing
- What We Know About Adolescent Literacy
- The National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement
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There was some interesting research done in the 1990s by David Cohen and Deborah Ball, on math reforms in California. What they found was that one reform was layered on top of another so that teachers felt they were supposed to be doing two or three contradictory things at once. No one ever said, "You know that program we told you to do three years ago? You can stop that now."
Posted by: Don Z. | September 14, 2009 at 09:27 PM