Sam Chaltain

Do American Schools Need More Classroom Closers?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.29.2012

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Sam Chaltain

What is the statistical equivalent of a "save" in teaching -- and if we measured it, would it help us better assess a teacher's ability to support the learning and growth of children?

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Kid Whisperers

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.16.2012

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Buck reminds us that when learning is understood as the effort to empathize with another, it transforms both teacher and student.

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Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.03.2012

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What makes the Blue School's framework exciting is its commitment to explicitly link everything it does to the latest research about how the brain works, and about how people learn.

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Why David Brooks Almost Gets School Reform Right

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.27.2012

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Once again, David Brooks has written an important column about education. And once again, he offers a vision of modern schooling that is almost perfect -- but not quite.

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Vive La France? Revolutions in Parenting

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.22.2012

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Sam Chaltain

Our well-intended quest for ever-higher achievement has bred a nation of helicopter parents and a generation of children with plenty of love and precious few limits.

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What if Learning -- Not Fighting -- Were the Focus?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 06.11.2011

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Sam Chaltain

When one looks back at the last 15 months -- a period in which school reform has been at the forefront of American life -- what becomes clear is that we haven't been having a national debate about learning.

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Time for Obama to Become Our Teacher-in-Chief

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011

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We need to have a deeper reflective conversation about what powerful learning and teaching actually look like so that we can start to realign our system

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Privatization or Public-ization?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Support for the privatization of America's public school system is growing. How can we reclaim the purpose of public education and create space for innovation?

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Rethink Learning, Now

Sam Chaltain | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Education, Arne Duncan, Brown v. Board of Education, Equity, Sam Chaltain, Grassroots, Al Franken, High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Teaching, Fairness, Learning, Healthy Living News
Sam Chaltain

Learning involves more than basic skills and regurgitating information. It requires higher-order skills and the capacity to digest, make sense of, and apply what we've been taught.

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