Technically Speaking
Digital Promise, then, and now. See how the movement is transforming education into Competency Based. Educators, leaders, and students, beware.
Tech Thursdays
Tech Thursdays
States Get Graded CCR, Style!
How CCR is measured in your state. How it connects to the ESSA.
Update: CCSS, CTE, STEM, and Connect NC Bond
Update on Connect NC and the CCSS Machine. Vote ‘NO’!
Tech Thursdays
“Conformity Readiness”
Discussion of conformity readiness and critique of education policy in Common Core Diva post
ESSA and Teacher Pay
In the shift from one federal education law to another, we need to know how the CCSS Machine is going to pay our teachers. More specifically, how the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) will reward, or punish, them.
Tech Thursdays
Fed Ed, 2017, Are You Ready?
Usually, on Thursdays, I delve into the CCSS Machine’s overreach into post-secondary education, but today I am focusing on the
ESSA and Digital Overload
Look into the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) for all the digital parts of education via College and Career Readiness (the new ‘Common Core’ name). (*Note: in the ESSA, ‘Standards’ is innocently stated as “Challenging State Academic Standards”). Why do I point this out? The law (ESSA) uses both phrases for education!
Tech Thursdays
School Board Special, Part 4
In my final installment for the anti CCSS School Board Special, I want to thank each and every one who
Tech Thursdays
CCSS/UNESCO Ideology, Anyone?
It’s a great day to be alive and fighting for the RIGHT kind of education for our students, don’t you