Articles


 * Links to Interesting Articles:**

[|Letters to My Younger Self]

[|What Kids Really Want In the Classroom]

[|Graduation Rates Climb for the First Time in Years]

[|Finishing the Year Strong]

Future Schools: Blending face-to-face time and online learning An article that discusses how blended learning is being used at an elementary school in San Jose, California.

[|Common Core State Standards and Student Centered Learning]

Why Would-Be Engineers End Up As English Majors

[|The Technology Debate]- This article looks at the use of twitter in the classroom because it helps students who do not necessarily participate feel more comfortable to do so. However, even I am not completely sold on the idea as is. I think it's important that we are constantly figuring out how to engage students in a format that they are able to flourish in...they grow up with this type of technology and it is how they receive, send out, and evaluate information. Yet, I think we need to develop sound educational practices that incorporate this technology as well.

[|changing education paradigms]