Howard Dvorsky

What Are The Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth? by Terry Heick This post has been updated from a version published in 2013 Good teaching is a major undertaking. Make no mistake–teaching has never been easy. But as we come upon 2014, as a profession teaching is increasingly characterized by its possibility, accountability, and persistent mutation…. Source

Roughly 1 out of every 7 children in public school has an identified disability, according to a recent analysis, but both traditional public and charter schools have a long way to go to provide equal opportunities for those students — which they have the right to receive. Now in its sixth year, the Center for Learning Equity’s review of federal civil rights data found that students with disabiliti...[Read More]

Utah principal Shauna Haney brought about one of the first classroom cellphone bans in the state.

In addition to my work at TeachThought, I also write creative nonfiction, essays, and—more recently—poetry. I’ve presented my work at the University of Louisville Literacy Conference in 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2024. If you’re into creative writing, I’ve started a Substack called Everything We Carry. It’s a place for poems and short prose about memory,… Source

Teachers are the great translators of learning–mediators that speak in binary code for the system and in human tongue for the children. Source

To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you? Source

Jamie, a fictional young person in 2040, wrote this piece to reflect on her high school experience. You know, when my grandma tells me about her childhood, it sounds so… structured. One school building, one classroom, one teacher for everything. School happened “inside” those walls. Every. Day. For my mom, not much changed. She had a couple of teachers, but I was shocked at how similar the picture...[Read More]

When sweeping announcements were made earlier this year that a swath of federal workers were slated to lose their jobs in the nation’s capital, neighboring state and city governments — Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. — began to make the best out of a tough situation. Perhaps, state and local leaders thought, newly unemployed civil servants might be interested in shifting their professional...[Read More]

Education research is great, but it has nothing on what you are able to see every day within your classroom. Source

A tech integration specialist shares how she incentivizes teachers to work with her.

When rethinking learning loss, we should consider ‘transferability’ of knowledge to student life. Source

Let me take you back to my Brooklyn. Before the block became a movie set for gentrified dreams, it was something else entirely. It was home. In the late ’90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. I was raised in a residential building that mirrored the borough itself: diverse, vibrant and full of life. By the time I was a teenager,...[Read More]