Although there are many skills that students should have, the three that are most critical are reading comprehension, information literacy, and critical thinking. The Common Core State Standards require our students to move toward more independent learning through the years. Furthermore, students in higher grades are acquiring information by reading it from various resources online more today than ever before. Therefore, in order for students to deepen their understanding

Performance-based assessments measure not only students’ understanding of concepts and skills but their capacity to apply them. Whereas in traditional assessments, we determine students’ abilities to recall, identify, list, and match information, in performance-based assessments, we are determining students’ abilities to classify, compare, analyze, and evaluate information. That is, the intention of the performance-based assessments is to determine not only what students kn

Providing leadership, directing, and administering the organization and coordination of information systems and technologies of an enterprise aimed at supporting education and student services programs starts with the development of a strategic plan. In order for technology branches of education agency’s to be proactive (as opposed to their traditional reactive role), such strategic plans are more necessary now more than ever. Over the years, I’ve learned a multi-step proce