by lindanathan | Mar 13, 2012 | Arts Education, Family/School Involvement, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
Last Thursday we hosted Instructional Rounds (IR) at BAA. Instructional rounds are the new buzzword in education, largely defined by Lee Teitel and Richard Elmore at Harvard. The purpose of the rounds is to analyze and improve teaching and learning practices at the...
by lindanathan | Mar 6, 2012 | Arts Education, Family/School Involvement, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
I had to blog about Confessions of a ‘Bad’ Teacher from this past Sunday’s New York Times… everyone needs to read this article so we can stop and think about how our federal and state policies are affecting teachers and kids in our classrooms....
by lindanathan | Dec 19, 2011 | Arts Education, Family/School Involvement, Interdisciplinary Learning, Teaching and Learning
In November 2009, I had the privilege of attending the Thanksgiving play at the Rafael Hernandez School, a bilingual elementary school in Roxbury where Margarita Muñiz was the principal. This annual musical is a long standing tradition, and in 2009, the play was about...
