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Helmsley Charitable Trust Selects AUSSIE as Professional Development Partner for Bronx Schools
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust selects AUSSIE/Editure Professional Development as professional development partner for Bronx schools
Funds will support professional development services in approximately 25 Bronx schools
New York, NY (April 8, 2011) – Leading global educator professional development company, Editure Professional Development, announced its partnership with The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. AUSSIE/Editure Professional Development will use funds from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to help K-12 schools in need in the Bronx, New York. Bringing to bear decades of experience and...
A Voice from the Classroom: Three Puzzles
Three puzzles: (1) How can I continue this blog effectively when I’m too busy to write it well? (2) Do crossword puzzles belong in the classroom? (3) How can we find the best way to teach each student? I’ll tackle them one at a time, bringing up along the way the research I promised in my last post.
Puzzle #1: I can’t. That one was easy! Which is why this blog took so long to...
Google Apps for Educators
When I was asked to work on a video highlighting the use of Google Apps for Educators at PS62 Chester Park School in Queens, I thought it would be a great opportunity to combine the educational technology consulting work I do for AUSSIE with my video production skills. However, I did not realize that I would learn so much from the advanced and integrated uses of Google Apps in...
Editure DSS Has Become a Certified Training Organization in Google Apps
For Immediate Release - New York, NY, December 2010 –Editure Digital School Solutions has become a certified training organization in Google Apps for Education and will become a Google Premiere Partner. The partnership will provide premiere educational consultancy services to Pre K-12 educators by building a strong emphasis on whole-school and district-wide communication, instructional collaboration, data-driven instruction, and 21st century student work through the effective usage of Google’s applications...
A Voice from the Classroom: The Learning Pyramid and the Chinese Room
Have you ever seen the famous (or infamous, depending on your opinion of its validity) “Learning Pyramid”? Its basic claim is that as a learner you retain 5% of what you hear, 10% of what you read, 20% of what you both hear and see, 30% of what is demonstrated to you, 50% of what you discuss, 75% of what you practice by doing, and 90% of what you teach to others.
It is a too simplistic explanation of how humans learn, and its research origins are...
A Voice from the Classroom: Property on the Lake of Literature
Last weekend a tornado of workshop planning, bathroom repairs, and out-of-town visitors wiped out the time I needed to follow up on my blog post “The Hero Journey of a Reader.” Gina gave me a pass. Thank you, Gina.
First, an update on the “Tarzan Method” of reading. Cecily Iddings, a teacher of high school Global Studies students at District 75’s Lillian L. Rashkis school, tried it with the...
Alchemy Systems and Editure Professional Development Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance K-12 Offerings
Austin, TX, July 2010 - Editure Professional Development, Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with Alchemy Systems, LP to provide one of the most comprehensive professional development and technology offerings to K-12 schools. The combined partnership currently provides products and services to over 12,500 schools around the world. This extensive expertise and experience will allow the combined team to offer an unparalleled level of service to K-12 customers in the United States.
Paragraph Six - Let Us Now Praise Freewriting
Pardon me while I pause to praise freewriting.
The topic has come up several times in past posts: as a way to respond to essential questions, as a phenomenon that liberated a middle schooler named José when he wrote, “Seeing is not believing,” as a vehicle for the unique poetry of her ninth grade mind when Jasmine wrote, “…a quiet, spacious room, reaching and stretching and acting….” It was Jasmine who went on to...
