This research shows the impact of using the Essential Skill Inventories on teacher perception of success, including knowing their students, responding to the individual needs of students, relationships with students, […]
Learning matters. More than at any time in history, children with good learning skills and work habits will have incredible opportunities to succeed. But children with poor learning skills and […]
There is a secret to classroom management. You won’t find it in most of the books on classroom discipline or the endless lists of classroom management tips. Here is a […]
Please check out my interview in Education News, and share with your colleagues. http://www.educationviews.org/bob-sornson-competency-based-learning/ An Interview with Bob Sornson: Competency Based Learning Michael F. Shaughnessy Bob, aren’t our scho
Bob Sornson We live in a time of incredible opportunity, with exponential increases in information, technology, and opportunities to share and connect. It is a time of possibility, in which […]
If you wanted to create a system that limits educational options and consigns the vast majority of poor American children to continue to live in poverty, just look around you. […]
“We covered it,” is a familiar expression, “but they just didn’t learn it.” In most schools we continue to deliver far too much content using a rigid schedule which […]
For decades American schools have been engaged in a failed experiment, attempting to cram more content than humanly possible into a typical teaching day, and asking children to learn overwhelming […]