Educational Insight from OnHand Schools

Data is yesterday’s news or is it. In K-12 we do have a tendency to embrace the latest and coolest.  We can change from year to year depending on what new idea we (our administrators) saw at a conference, the Intermediate Unit now recommends, or perhaps it’s the newest ideas in the current hot selli

What the Literature Says By this time, most of us are very aware of the important role that professional development plays in our goal to raise student achievement.  Over the years, much has been written as to the make-up of effective professional development.  You can go to the U.S. Department of E

With the Race to the Top grant as the catalyst, teacher evaluation is the hot topic Du Jour. Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a classroom teacher my evaluation was based on classroom management. If I didn’t send kids to the office I was considered an exceptional teacher. Today a te

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)April 13, 2011 Author: Samuel Hazo Apparently it’s open season on teachers. The dogmatized, rhyming governors of Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey and our own Pennsylvania have made it their mission to discipline and reform the teaching profession in the name of fiscal