The International Center for Leadership in Education believes that a curriculum needs to prepare students for the world beyond high school, not just for the next level of education. To accomplish this objective, the curriculum must reflect what the community as a whole – administrators, teachers, parents, the business community, and other stakeholders – believes students should know and be able to do when they graduate from high school.

In 1998, the International Center for Leadership...Read more

Over the past three years, Van Meter High School in Iowa has worked to develop an adapted version of the International Center’s Rigor/Relevance FrameworkTM as its personalized method of school reform.

“The model has become an integral part of the culture at Van Meter,” says Principal John C. Carver. “Teachers challenge students with increased rigor, are benefited from real-world application of lessons developed as a result of the staff’s analysis of the model, and thanks to an ...Read more

One easy method of showing a video to students is from a Web browser or media player. Another more seamless option is through a PowerPoint presentation, as you describe a particular concept or idea.

The most important thing to remember is to save the PowerPoint file and movie file in the same folder. When you move one of the files, be sure to take both of them so that the video is linked appropriately.

Videos can be powerful teaching and learning tools, and educators have easy access, with millions of videos available online (see Bulletin #114 for a teaching strategy). Still, not everyone is familiar with how to download or integrate the videos for use in the classroom.

There are at least 23 downloadable software tools available on the Web to convert typical .flv video files found on YouTube and TeacherTube into files that you can download onto your computer and integrate into a PowerPo...Read more

Business and education leaders have tended to look at each other with suspicion across a chasm of seemingly different leadership styles, purposes, regulations, etc. However, there are more similarities than differences between business and education and, without question, we need each other. What would business be without the highly educated employees, and what would public education be without the advocacy of business? It is necessary to develop better ways and means for these two forces in ...Read more

The idea of teaching reading in a math or science or social studies class probably runs counter to
what you feel you should be doing. After all, you have standards to teach, and your students have
proficiency tests to take. So, perhaps instead of thinking about teaching strategic reading in the
content areas, we can think, instead, of teaching strategies to improve comprehension in
context. Our purpose is to train students in strategic thinking skills to use when approaching
new course t...Read more

Butler Technology and Career Development Schools strives for the following:
1. Deliver education as planned with faculty having access to a course of study and instructional guides appropriate to their assignment
2. Maximize student engagement in instruction
3. Efficiently deliver courses of study to produce student performance

The curriculum delivery supervision information observations procedure is used to give ongoing feedback and coach teachers to expand their understanding of metho...Read more

The idea of teaching reading in a math, science or social class probably runs counter to what you feel you should be doing. After all, you have standards to teach, and your students have proficiency tests to take. So, perhaps instead of thinking about teaching strategic reading in the content areas, we can think, instead, of teaching strategies to improve comprehension in context. Our purpose is to train students in strategic thinking skills to use when approaching new course topics and mater...Read more

In some classroom, Quadrant D experiences are integrated into daily practice through short, quick activities. These instructional activities raise the level of rigor (thinking) and relevance (application) and are aligned with the Rigor/Relevance Framework.
Although the best strategies are in Quadrant D of the Rigor/Relevance Framework, a skilled teacher moves among the four quadrants seamlessly during a lesson. In order to accomplish this effectively, teachers need ideas that are easy to rep...Read more

Relationships in schools are very intangible and hard to quantify. Yet, it is very easy to get a sense of the relationship atmosphere when you first walk into the school. Staff can begin to identify the level of relationships by thinking about what school appears to be to visitors