Episodes
Wednesday Feb 26, 2014
Episode 12: Darby Jones & Arts Now: Improving Education Through the Arts
Wednesday Feb 26, 2014
Wednesday Feb 26, 2014
Darby Jones is the CEO of Arts Now.
Darby comes from the classroom; He taught in an Atlanta middle
school for 10 years and he was the fine
arts department chair. During his teaching days he started working with The
High Museum of Art in Atlanta which lead to him working with the Atlanta
College of Art and then the Savannah College of Art and Design as an adjunct
professor in visual arts instruction.
ArtsNow is about integrating the arts into schools. Darby calls it, “A true collaborative.”
The program has local, state, and national support. It's not
seeking to replace arts in schools but instead is focused on the integration of the
arts in all content areas.
Darby comments that too often “kids learn in silos” and this
program breaks those down. It develops connections. It is about increasing
engagement. It helps make learning meaningful.
I had the pleasure of seeing the program in action with the
teachers and kids in an elementary school in Dublin City Schools, GA. The kids
were truly excited to be participating together and using the instructional
strategies. They were discovering and excited to be involved in the activities
throughout all content areas.
Find Darby and Arts Now on the web at www.artsnowlearning.org or on
facebook at Arts Now Learning where you can find contact links for Darby.
Length 29:34 minutes
Wednesday Feb 19, 2014
Episode 11: Dr. Lodge McCammon/Differentiation and Engagement, part 2
Wednesday Feb 19, 2014
Wednesday Feb 19, 2014
This is part 2 of my discussion with Dr. McCammon.
Tuesday Feb 11, 2014
Episode 10! Dr. Lodge McCammon/Differentiation and Engagement part 1
Tuesday Feb 11, 2014
Tuesday Feb 11, 2014
This is our 10th episode!!! Yay!!!
Monday Feb 03, 2014
Episode 9: Dr. Larry Cuban/ Implementation is the Weakest Link
Monday Feb 03, 2014
Monday Feb 03, 2014
Dr. Larry Cuban has been in education for over 5 decades! He
earned his PhD at Stanford and is an Emeritus Professor in Stanford’s Graduate
School of Education.
He is the author of
many books a few of which are: As Good as
it Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin (2010), Hugging the Middle: How Teachers Teach in an Era of Testing and Accountability
(2008), The Blackboard and the Bottom
Line: Why Schools Can’t be Businesses (2007), Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (with
David Tyack, 1997), Teachers and Machine:
The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 (1986).
This interview took place on the campus of the University of
Georgia this past fall. Dr. Cuban had just completed a key note presentation
with an audience of Georgia educators and Graduate students from the University
of Georgia.
Listen to him explain that what is the weakest link in
school reform is the implementation.
He uses the metaphor of the hurricane to compare the
political talk about school reform being like the swirling, turbulent winds at
the surface during the hurricane and the calm at the bottom of the ocean being
the implementation in the actual classroom.
He is very personable and I enjoyed our talk!
Take time to follow up with him on his blog. Check out his
books, they are excellent!
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