State Board of Education

Imagination is a 21st century skill.
Effective leaders
Professor Scott McLeod’s presentation on disruptive innovation and education, from the K12 Online conference (20 minutes):

Effective teachers
Murfreesboro teacher honored with $25,000 Milken Foundation award.
Rigorous, relevant curriculum
Sir Kenneth Robinson talks about imagination and the need not to “reform” education, but to “transform” education.
View the long version from an award ceremony […]

The next meeting of the BEP Review Committee will be a WebEx Conference Call.
See the information below…
Topic: BEP Review Committee
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm, Central Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, Chicago)
Meeting Number: 921 679 005
Meeting Password: bep123
Please click the link below to see more information, or to join the meeting.
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We are to regard the mind not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame […]

I had the privilege of talking to two fifth grade and two seventh grade classes at LEAD Academy, one of Nashville’s three public charter schools, about the United States Constitution on Constitution Day, September 17.
We were visited by new super heroes, Constitution Man and Constitution Woman, who taught us about due process. We discussed […]

The BEP Review Committee will meet on Wednesday, October 15th (11AM to 2PM).
Agenda
Location:
Basic Education Program (BEP) Review Committee
TSBA Headquarters
525 Brick Church Park Drive
Nashville, TN 37027
(800) 448 - 6465

Effective teachers
Watch this video, in which Paul Robinson, a high school Physics teacher, uses baseball to make material relevant:

Intel CEO says teachers more important than PCs (or Macs, we presume)
Rigorous, Relevant Curriculum
TX coalition calls for tougher education standards so more students are prepared for the workforce
Sufficient Resources
Virginia gets to precise, real-time graduation rates
Can you make […]

Effective Leaders
Some ideas for a human capital “bailout”
Effective Teachers
How does what NYC Schools are doing differ from sharing value-added data with teachers?
Rigorous, Relevant Curriculum
NH Revising High School with student engagement in mind:
“The rules’ capstone is a requirement that districts set competencies for each classroom course, including those that integrate outside learning opportunities, and […]