THE DAILY RIFF tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2009-09-03://1 2012-02-03T14:08:52Z Be Smarter. About Education. Movable Type Pro 4.31-en Is This The Best High School in America? tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2009://1.46 2012-02-03T23:10:15Z 2012-02-03T14:08:52Z WATCH: How These Six Minutes May Change Your Idea of Innovative Education (dramatically). Phillips Exeter, Harvard Westlake & Lawrenceville may be taking notes from this charter school leading the next wave. Does your High School look anything like it? CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 WATCH: How These Six Minutes May Change Your Idea of Innovative Education (dramatically). Phillips Exeter, Harvard Westlake & Lawrenceville may be taking notes from this charter school leading the next wave. Does your High School look anything like it?

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]]> Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Education tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2012://1.869 2012-02-02T18:20:58Z 2012-02-06T00:01:15Z "Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . . " CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 "Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . . "

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]]> 7 Ways to Spark Engagement tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.680 2012-01-31T23:49:45Z 2012-02-01T14:19:32Z Moving from on-task to learning: "Have you noticed that 'on-task' does not always mean engaged?" CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 Moving from on-task to learning: "Have you noticed that 'on-task' does not always mean engaged?"

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]]> How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.536 2012-01-31T16:55:53Z 2012-01-31T23:38:06Z . . .AND how it changes the way teachers talk with parents - - - CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 . . .AND how it changes the way teachers talk with parents - - -

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]]> The Cost of College: The Pushback tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2012://1.867 2012-01-27T16:19:49Z 2012-01-28T00:11:34Z Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is having a busy week on the heels of President Obama's State of the Union address CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is having a busy week on the heels of President Obama's State of the Union address

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]]> The Flipped Class Manifest tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.823 2012-01-27T02:58:34Z 2012-01-26T12:48:21Z "The Flipped Classroom is an intentional shift of content which in turn helps move students back to the center of learning rather than the products of schooling." CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 "The Flipped Classroom is an intentional shift of content which in turn helps move students back to the center of learning rather than the products of schooling."

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]]> A Complex Web: Teacher-Student Relationships tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.694 2012-01-27T01:04:23Z 2012-01-28T02:08:29Z "Like most of us, they (teachers) had complex personalities that meshed with some people and conflicted with others." CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 "Like most of us, they (teachers) had complex personalities that meshed with some people and conflicted with others."

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]]> The Parent-School Relationship: The Importance of Listening tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2012://1.858 2012-01-25T21:30:23Z 2012-01-26T15:10:54Z "....I have been part of schools that have constantly told me what to do but never listened to what I had to say.' " CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 "....I have been part of schools that have constantly told me what to do but never listened to what I had to say.' "

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]]> 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2010://1.474 2012-01-25T17:23:45Z 2012-01-26T12:19:18Z Desks, Language Labs, Computers, Homework, Standardized Tests in College Admissions . . . . CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 Desks, Language Labs, Computers, Homework, Standardized Tests in College Admissions . . . .

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]]> Does our educational system put the brakes on the entrepreneurial spirit in America? tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.806 2012-01-25T13:48:50Z 2012-01-26T00:29:17Z "Parents could turn the system on its head if they weren't so caught up in outmoded mentalities about education forged in the stable economy of the 1950s (but profoundly misguided in today's chaotic, entrepreneurial economy)." CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 "Parents could turn the system on its head if they weren't so caught up in outmoded mentalities about education forged in the stable economy of the 1950s (but profoundly misguided in today's chaotic, entrepreneurial economy)."

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]]> "A Radical Idea For Changing Math Education" tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2010://1.308 2012-01-25T00:58:59Z 2012-01-28T02:04:45Z Someone always asks the math teacher, 'Am I going to use calculus in real life?' And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is NO. CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 Someone always asks the math teacher, 'Am I going to use calculus in real life?' And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is NO.

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]]> Two Families. Two different paths to "academic excellence." And, the winner is . . . tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.654 2012-01-24T15:13:01Z 2012-01-26T13:27:52Z But the two families - one Chinese, one Mexican/Jewish - have made strikingly different decisions about how to pursue academic excellence. One relies on a parent-driven focus on tutoring, advanced classes and testing drills, while the other allows . . . CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 But the two families - one Chinese, one Mexican/Jewish - have made strikingly different decisions about how to pursue academic excellence. One relies on a parent-driven focus on tutoring, advanced classes and testing drills, while the other allows . . .

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]]> What Students (Really) Need to Know tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2012://1.866 2012-01-23T16:24:54Z 2012-01-24T02:11:27Z "A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could." - Lawrence Summers CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 "A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could." - Lawrence Summers

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]]> "No one tests you on empathy" tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.706 2012-01-21T22:43:24Z 2012-01-22T18:09:02Z Lots of very smart people lack empathy. They're able to test their way through life and get A's. How about empathy, adaptability, initiative and responsibility? CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 Lots of very smart people lack empathy. They're able to test their way through life and get A's. How about empathy, adaptability, initiative and responsibility?

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]]> The Double Whammy "F" Word: Fear of Feedback tag:www.thedailyriff.com,2011://1.596 2012-01-20T14:54:59Z 2012-01-26T12:05:55Z A School Leader Riffs CJ Westerberg http://www.thedailyriff.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=3 A School Leader Riffs

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