eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

Standardized testing became ubiquitous and often crowded out the arts, physical education, and even recess in under-resourced schools. Teaching to the test narrowed curricula. Schools in low-income communities were labeled as failures rather than supported. The reforms were ineffective, as well as damaging.

Education

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

Here’s how this approach is transforming our teaching and learning, along with some advice on finding entry points to this kind of work in your own district. If we have eight periods in a day and decide students need six academic subjects, a lunch, and a period of physical education, what is the value statement here?

Education

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Murphy: Over my career, I've learned that taking a top-down approach to implementation without acknowledging other perspectives and inviting key stakeholders leads to failure—no matter how fantastic your initiative is. Research for Better Teaching. We heard comments like…‘It would be incredible if I could do it from home.’

Learning

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During my eight-year teaching career in Colorado, Ive heard many schools and districts claim they want to develop the whole child. For example, the Colorado Department of Education supports statewide infrastructure and systems to promote a whole-child approach called Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child.

Middle School

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure. When I was teaching the early years [i.e., The same is true in highly performance-based environments like physical education and practical and applied arts. I’ve taught every grade, K-12.

Testing