Every Monday my 3rd grader brings home a folder containing all of his schoolwork from the previous week. Being something of a pack rat, I have kept these papers in a cupboard since the first day of school. This weekend marked the half-way point of the academic year, and in a fit of organization, I [...]

This afternoon, after an extremely harried day, I participated in an Educational Policy Committee meeting to discuss Charlotte Danielson’s four domains of teacher evaluation. Having arrived 15 minutes late from another obligation, I was just getting up to speed with the concept of “Evidence of Teaching” as being Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, or Distinguished when my [...]