by jseat | Aug 11, 2010 | Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, BVSD, Colorado, inclusion, Special Education
Once again Boulder Valley School District is in the news discussing changes to their special education policy. Boulder public schools work to provide more special-ed in regular classrooms – via the Denver PostBVSD held a special training session for all their...
by jseat | Jul 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
In the effort to reform (for the sake of reform in my opinion), the current government administration is pushing for Common Core Standards for the entire country. Sounds like a good idea? That is what many of the top educational research organizations are saying,...
by jseat | Jul 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Is it possible? Could we really be looking at the future of education to be handled by robots? According to this article, there are already countries experimenting with classrooms taught by robots and here in the US, we are already testing them on preschoolers.The...
by jseat | Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Between the Race to the Top (RttT) fund in full swing, stage 2 now, and reforms being made in many states, including Colorado (in hopes of winning RttT), the way in which we evaluate teachers is big news lately. Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University had...
by jseat | Jul 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
This past week I did a guest blog for another website. You can check it out...
by jseat | Jun 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last week this story came to my attention and at first I couldn’t believe what I saw. I thought perhaps it was a passing thing, but now, a week later, it is being talked about by newspapers and bloggers around the country. So I couldn’t let it slip by...
by jseat | Jun 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
School reform is a tired phrase that we hear over and over again. Reform the curriculum, change the name of “special education” to “student success,” or even update the building, hire a new position, etc. all in the name of school reform. Where...
by jseat | Jun 12, 2010 | Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, Colorado, Special Education, special needs
Boulder Valley School District is planning to eliminate special parties for special education students, district wide. Read this article to get all the details.Kim Bane from the district cites 2 reasons in the article for eliminating the program. Her first reasoning...
by jseat | May 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
For the last several years there has been talk about expanding the school day or converting to year-round school. Several schools in different parts of the country have experimented with these ideas in different ways. In fact some schools have even tried 4 day weeks...
by jseat | May 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Memorial Day is a great education opportunity for families to learn about our great country how the men and women who keep it safe have sacrificed so much. Education World has put together some great information and internet sources that you can use. So remember our...
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