CERA 2017 conference notes: my favorite presentation
Todd Langager, from San Diego CoE, presenting at CERA, 11/30/17 Todd Langager, a program evaluation coordinator with the San Diego County Office of Education, told an engaging story at CERA's conference on November 30, 2017. His title, "Flipping the Evaluation Narrative," only hinted at the message. The core of his terrific talk was a lesson in story-telling, and [...]
Time to see gaps from new angles
When we discuss achievement gaps or gaps in opportunities to learn, why do we represent those gaps with bar charts? It’s time for us to look at those gaps from new angles, and see if we can discover new insights. Stanford social scientists by Sean F. Reardon, Demetra Kalogrides and Kenneth Shores have already rescued us from the prison of [...]
Hiding behind education jargon
When educators talk about their work to parents, they utter buzzwords that leave their audience in the dark. This "ed-speak" phenomenon is so prevalent, it should be considered an occupational hazard. And when district leaders try to explain where their schools and district stand, they are too often tongue-tied by jargon from the accountability zone. Martin Kozloff, a sociologist from the [...]
