Common Core State Standards, Current Events, Data Driven Decision Making, Education Reform, Teacher Appreciation

Happy Birthday to NCLB

Posted by Todd Savelle on January 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

Today is No Child Left Behind’s 11th birthday. And while that does not mean that we should also be singing happy birthday to the standardized test, it does mean that we’ve seen a lot more of the standardized test’s face around the classroom in the last 11 years. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) marked the…

Current Events, Data Driven Decision Making, Education Reform, Ideas, Literacy, STEM, Teacher Appreciation, Technology

What Would a Teacher Do?

Posted by Todd Savelle on July 3, 2012 | 3 comments

Sometimes I can go on a tear and have something that I want to write about here at the Exchange just about every single day. Then we have a stretch like this recent one, where I go missing for a week and a half. What’s brought me back is another number. The number is 15,800,000,000….