Curriculum Design 5: Operating Strategies for Essential Knowledge Designs
When curricular alignment is mentioned in school reform debates today, it is generally a demand for teachers to align course …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Curriculum Design 4: Teacher Dispositions and Design
When I started this blog, I decided that, if I could not write about serious things in a playful way, …
Curriculum Design 3: Of Lunches and Lessons — Feeding the Whole Child
Curriculum Design 3: Of Lunches and Lessons — Feeding the Whole Child.
Curriculum Design 3: Of Lunches and Lessons — Feeding the Whole Child
If only curricular design could be a little bit more like planning school lunches! When it comes to a child’s …
Curriculum Design 2: Of Learning Intentions and Lightning Bolts
I am going to begin this post with a personal anecdote and work my way back into some thoughts about …
Curriculum Design 1: Getting Past The Swallowing of Flies
This post is among the first in what will be a series of posts about curricular design, and, just to …
Running with Imagination
One week ago, I participated in a course where, as a community builder, we were asked to describe ourselves when …
Standardized Testing — The Brutal Search for Factual Data
George Bernard Shaw once said: “Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in …
Creativity and the Gulping Self
Creativity is both a gift and a risk. No matter what form the art takes, there is personal exposure that …
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Welcome! Now that you have arrived at this blog entry, it is fair to say that either I did something …
