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Common Core Drives Interest in Open Education Resources
Spurred by the adoption of common-core standards by nearly every state, the movement for open digital resources is growing as educators realign curricula --- One tool to help educators determine the quality and alignment to the common core of a particular...
Seeding Special Education
A special ed teacher who practices inclusion is like an aerial trapeze artist, swinging from bars to balance beam with a grace that defies the conventions of gravity. For 30 years, my youngest sister, Evelyn Margolin, has been bouncing from class to class, working...
Call and Response – The Sound of Collaboration
In music, call and response is a technique where one musician offers a phrase and a second player answers with a direct commentary or response to the offered phrase. The musicians build on each other’s offering and work together to move the song along and create a...
Words of Wisdom from an OER Fellow
Applications are now being accepted for ISKME’s 2012-2013 OER Fellowship ProgramNext month we’ll embark on our fourth year of the OER Fellowship Program. Each fall we accept up to eight educational leaders who work collaboratively throughout the school year and...
Educators Flex for Effectiveness
It is a new school year and I still find myself instinctively gearing up for the pace and rigor of starting a new year. Until a few years ago, my work was in California public schools, coordinating state-level student assessments, managing textbook adoptions and...