by Greg Cunningham, JFYNetWorks Blended Learning Specialist Online Education can be daunting even for digital natives Everyone over 30—or is it now 20? — assumes that young people are completely tech savvy. They walk the streets and hallways with their faces plastered to their phones, texting, posting, broadcasting live video
The largest Proficient/Advanced gain in the state by Gary Kaplan, JFYNetWorks Executive Director MCAS scores for 2017 were released last month. JFY’s partner schools logged many good results, but Madison Park Technical Vocational High School was far and away the year’s high point. Madison Park has come in for heavy
Sometimes We Need to Be Reminded… … that our schools are full of great kids, hard-working and creative teachers, overworked and underappreciated administrators, and effective programs. Read more about some of these outstanding people, schools and communities in our series: Spotlighting JFYNetWorks Partner Schools… October 2017 edition.
What happens when goals for teaching math, and the strategies employed collide? by Cathie Maglio, Blended Learning Specialist When people talk about the Olympics, they mean the sporting event that happens every four years. But did you know there’s a math Olympics that happens every year? It’s called the International
Assess, Instruct, Measure, Support by Joan Reissman, Blended Learning Specialist Everyone today talks about blending technology into their classrooms. When I first started working for JFYNetWorks, many teachers asked, “How can a computer be better than me?” Those days are long gone as technology has become such an essential part
by Greg Cunningham, JFYNetWorks Blended Learning Specialist The world of education has a natural tendency to focus on the academic. A student needs to learn to write, solve equations, analyze a piece of literature, and then demonstrate all that and more in comprehensive testing. What is often lost amid the
by Eileen Wedegartner, Blended Learning SPECIALIST It’s that time of year again when beach balls are traded for book bags. For many students, fall is a season of excitement: a new term, a clean slate and an opportunity to make new entries in the growing ledger of successes. But for
Puzzles and games in the classroom could be just the thing. by Cathie Maglio, Blended Learning Specialist I love math, in all its shapes and forms. To me, it’s fun. But I’m a math teacher. For many students and teachers, “fun” is not the word they would apply to math.
The skills gap persists by Gary Kaplan, JFYNetWorks Executive Director Labor Day weekend kicked off, appropriately, with the national Employment Report. It was underwhelming. Job and wage growth held their sluggish pace. Commentaries ranged from “steady as she goes” to “more noise than signal” to “disappointing though hardly catastrophic.” A
Sometimes We Need to Be Reminded… … that our schools are full of great kids, hard-working and creative teachers, overworked and underappreciated administrators, and effective programs.
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