Apply to join the Chalkboard team!

We are looking for an Executive Assistant to join the Chalkboard team. We will be accepting applications until May 17, 2012, and the job description can be viewed here. Read more.

What are Value-Added Measures?

Part two in our series of virtual brown bags is a webinar on value-added models, a complex statistical tool used for measuring student growth. Watch the recording of the presentation and discussion here. Read more.

Do you want to know how your district spends its dollars?

Visit Open Books Project to see how your district spends its dollars. Compare districts’ financial data, assessment reports, and graduation rates using easy to understand, colorful charts. Read more.

Finding Value in Value-Added

Dan Jamison clarifies misconceptions about VAM and highlights the benefits of using VAM at the school-level. Feel free to post your questions in the comments section on ChalkBloggers. Read more.

2012 Request for Proposals (RFP) for CLASS Project Pilot Program

Chalkboard is currently accepting proposals from school districts interested in participating in CLASS. We plan to award three new CLASS design grants. Read more.

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Merry Ann Moore

It’s about our schools, stupid

Times are hard, as we all know.  Our political leaders are preoccupied, understandably, with job creation. But if they ... Read more

Sue Hildick

Change method of teachers’ pay

This article was originally published in the Statesman Journal on April 14, 2012 and can be found here. Changing the way... Read more

Ron Smith

Reforming Teacher Supervision

Current education reform efforts are spread over many different points of emphasis. Prominent among these is the effort ... Read more

Aimee Craig

Feedback on Teacher Incentive Fund: What We’ve Learned

The US Department of Education has put out the draft priorities for the next round of the Teacher Incentive Fund and inv... Read more

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Play at school

Sarah Pope is the publications editor for the Arbor Center for Teaching. The ACT is a non-profit organization created to... Read more

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Sunday Routine | Dennis M. Walcott: Dennis Walcott, Schools Chancellor, Runs, Cooks and Cleans on Sundays

Dennis M. Walcott, the schools chancellor, devotes his Sundays to exercising, making waffles, singing in his church choir and cleaning the h... Read more.

SpaceX Is Set to Send Its Rocket to the Space Station

A private company’s test flight will carry 15 student experiments onboard, including one involving winemaking. ... Read more.

Some Schools to Close for 2 Days and Reopen for Last Day of Class

Unused snow days will give many students days off at the end of the school year, but they will have to return midweek for the originally sch... Read more.