Pedro Noguera challenged teachers and administrators to develop an attitude of wanting to understand the students we are working with and striving to have schools have a positive impact on our students. Noguera, a professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and very involved in urban education, was the luncheon speaker […]

During the NTC Symposium, members of the JEA mentoring program met with Janet Glass to discuss how JEA can develop a partnership with NTC. Janet could understand the importance of mentoring journalism teachers who often are the only one in their school, as she had been the only German teacher in her school district. Julie […]

Kimberly Oliver, kindergarten teacher and Board Certifed, offered HEART for teachers: H – High expectations of every student and belief that every student can learn. E – Expertise. Knowing content, our students and pedagogy. A – Ardor. Love and passion for what we do. R – Relationships. Building relationships with our students, their families, and […]

A research session covered designing research projects and tools for classroom observation. Confirmation bias – See what we’re looking for. Seen vs unseen – Even with classroom observation, lots happens when we aren’t there observing. Inattentional blindness – We are so focused on what we’re looking for that we don’t see other factors. And thin […]

Challenge of mobile blogging from iPhone — typing with one finger. Thumbing on Treo was faster. Computer keyboard much much faster. But I did learn to send Morse Code as part of a Girl Scout badge. At least iPhone typing is faster than dots and dashes. Julie from her iPhone

Author of “Letters to a Young Teacher” Jonathan Kozol stressed that new teachers need structured support of veteran teachers within their own profession — not mass in-service. Kozol drew applause from the more than 1,000 attending the New Teacher Center Sympoium when he criticized the “obsessive testing” required by No Child Left Behind. He said […]

Jonathan Kozol promoted teaching not restricted by high-stakes testing

Ellen Moir shared from her experience at the New Teacher Center. – Importance of building leadership team and think about next generation. – Need stakeholder buy-in, especially principals. – Quality of mentors crucial.