Here's the story I mentioned in the live chat earlier today about the restorative justice program that is just getting underway in 28 Sonoma County elementary schools. The program is called Somos Circles and is intended to intervene with 5th and 6th graders who are exhibiting behaviors that could lead [...]
Here's a fun and interesting story from CBS about a San Rafael school adopting standing desks for students. They're all the rage in workplaces, what with sitting being the new smoking. And a few weeks ago I wrote a story about Healdsburg Junior High which as part of its total [...]
Really enjoyed the live chat (transcript below) about education, schools and the achievement gap this morning. Thank you for dropping in and taking part. We had about 40 people watching or participating. The subject will obviously continue to unfold and remain a hot one -- and I'll continue to focus [...]
Piner High School’s collaboration with Sonoma State University in STEM education continues apace, with several programs underway that join students from both institutions in mentoring and learning projects. The high school and university kicked off this year’s partnership Sept. 30 with a showcase of student projects and research held Piner’s [...]
For the sake of conversation, I mapped Santa Rosa schools to look at their proficiency levels in English and math by location. The proficiency scores were recorded in the Smarter Balanced tests that replaced the old STAR tests. The results were released in September. While test scores are by no [...]
The Santa Rosa Junior College Bear Cubs football team was out at Proctor Terrace Elementary School today, running Ms. Leslie Gude-Dunbar's second grade class through drills. It was part of an effort to get involved in the community that coaches are encouraging. And it was quite a sight.
I was out at Healdsburg Junior High the other day reporting a story about how the school has been redesigned with the goal of making teaching and learning better -- more effective, more collaborative, more creative and so on. In a lot of ways the idea was to align the [...]
The 22nd annual ArtQuest Fall Showcase will be held Thursday, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Santa Rosa High School. The free event is open to the public and is a lively -- and always crowded -- display of student talents nurtured in the eight specialty disciplines of the Santa [...]
I was in a Montgomery High School classroom this week, talking to the seniors about their exercise in design thinking, which was being taught them by three classmates. Their challenge was to see if there is a more effective way to approach grading. The approach they are using -- the [...]
So, who wants to talk about Common Core, upon which is built our new regime of standardized testing? I'm very interested in reporting/exploring over time how it is unfolding and working -- for teacher and students and parents, too. As I reported earlier this month on the release of [...]