ASCD News

  • Hope inspires educators at ASCD conference
    Thu, Mar 27, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    In the spirit of New Orleans, a high school band, complete with tubas and clarinets, welcomed clapping attendees to the opening keynote session of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD's) annual conference earlier this month. And it was this same spirit that infused the entire conference, as speakers embraced themes of hope and rebirth and applied them to the state of education today. [ Read More ]

  • 'Learning' replaces 'teaching'
    Fri, Mar 21, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    At the 2008 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference, Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and Mary Dean Barringer, chief operating officer of All Kinds of Minds, discussed how education in the United States is shifting from an emphasis on teaching to one of learning. [ Read More ]

  • Neuroscience supports individualized instruction
    Wed, Mar 19, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    Greeted with images that inspired questions, like a giant egg broken in half to reveal a sunrise on a beach, attendees of a neuroscience session at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's annual conference March 15 realized their brains were in for some stimulation. [ Read More ]

  • Hope inspires educators at ASCD conference
    Wed, Mar 19, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    In the spirit of New Orleans, a high school band, complete with tubas and clarinets, welcomed clapping attendees to the opening keynote session of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD's) annual conference March 15. [ Read More ]

  • High-end monitors go missing from ASCD exhibits
    Mon, Mar 17, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    Four exhibitors got a shock during the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development conference in New Orleans, March 15-17, when they realized at least six large HD monitors were missing. Given the type and volume of equipment that disappeared, the incidents appeared to be part of an orchestrated rash of thefts. [ Read More ]

  • James urges tech infusion
    Sun, Apr 03, 2005    Primary Topic Channel:  ASCD
    A "cultural shift" brought about by an ongoing technological revolution is underway in the nation's classrooms, according to social scientist and author Jennifer James, who spoke at a national education conference on April 3. If students are to succeed in the information economy, James said, teachers must lead the way by embracing new approaches to learning, including the effective integration of classroom technologies, and leaving behind processes designed for a different era. [ Read More ]