Today is simple, but there are notes in flickr, so click through. New lesson planning setup for June:
Posts Categorized: education
On-Demand Professional Development and the PGCPS/TFA Innovation Challenge
Data-driven instruction is one of the transformative elements of excellent teaching. Simply put, if you don’t know where your students are at any given moment in terms of mastering the curriculum, then you’re going to have a tough time coaching them towards successful learning. Prince George’s County uses two powerful data software tools: EduSoft, for… Read more »
National High-Five Day: The Origins
My hipster college news/humor/commentary magazine, The Declaration, ran an article on Thursday, April 18, 2002 titled, “New Adventures In High-Five.” In it, the co-authors, Conor Lastowka and Wynn Walent, wrote: Thus, I propose to you, a National High-Five Day. A day when, without inhibition, people can freely exchange high fives between all different genders, races,… Read more »
A Progressive Education
In light of Obama declaring his campaign for re-election, I thought it would be a good occasion to share something intimately connected to his current presidency. Below is the farewell email I wrote to my co-workers at the Center for American Progress about 10 months ago, just before leaving for TFA summer institute. I decided to go… Read more »
Optical Character Recognition in the Sun
So we’re in the midst of the drama unit in my 7th-grade reading / english / language arts class. My co-teacher found a great abridged and leveled version of A Raisin in the Sun. Unfortunately, the only version of it she had was a photocopy of a Scholastic Scope magazine. I taught most of our… Read more »
We are kind. We are focused. We are honest. We are brave.
So much of the pre-institute reading and reflection has been about drawing connections between previous work and our new careers as educators. But stopping to think about what I hope the parents and families of my future students say at the end of my first year, I’ll have to defer to a couple of veteran… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I currently teach 7th-grade English / Reading / Language Arts at a turnaround school in Prince George’s County, Maryland. This year, my classroom is piloting a 1:1 iPad program designed to accelerate middle-school literary. I write about education technology here at appratt.com and at the EdTech 101 blog on . I'm a 2010 Teach For America corps member, and before that I was the managing editor at , the science and tech policy magazine at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, DC-based think tank.