Rodel Teacher Council Member Spotlight: Jermaine Williams
Two days before our visit to Jermaine Williams’ classroom, I received the following email:
That’s right, Chef Williams was inviting me to join his class and truly experience what it’s like to be a culinary student at St. Georges Technical High School. There would even be a uniform! Obviously, I accepted the challenge.
When we arrived at...
Rodel Teacher Council Member Spotlight: Michelle Wilson
By Rachel Wiggans Chan and Neil Kirschling
After hearing Principal Dale Brown speak passionately about the ongoing work at Booker T. Washington (BTW) Elementary School during the 8th Annual Vision Coalition Conference on Education, we headed to Dover to see how the work is translating in Michelle Wilson’s “Libergarten” classroom. Principal...
Rodel Teacher Council Member Spotlight: Shani Benson
If you haven’t heard of Flocabulary yet, you should check them out immediately.
Rodel Teacher Council member Shani Benson first introduced me to Flocabulary--sort of a "Schoolhouse Rock!" for the modern era--when we rocked out to “Three Branches of Government” during a visit to Shani's class at South Dover Elementary School last week...
Project-Based Success in “Most Likely to Succeed”
About 20 years ago, I was teaching in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and met Larry Rosenstock, a really creative vocational education teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school.
Larry saw the power in letting kids drive their own learning process by developing large-scale projects, to which they could apply what they had learned in class...