Disruptive Innovation. It’s Coming...

Teaching Matters hosted principals from across New York City and other education industry leaders to dialog with Michael Horn

Students Speak Out!

In the last several weeks our country has witnessed events with serious implications. On May 7th and May 11th, 400 middle school students proved they are ready to determine their positions...

Middle Schoolers Take Action on Civil Rights

We chose to discuss religious freedom concerning the Sikhs. It is important for people to understand that people are discriminating against other’s religion...

Advancing Principals' Vision with Innovation Field Trips

To best serve schools, we have been investigating the best ways for our school leaders to share and further their thinking.

Is the iPad Coming to Your Classroom?

Call it an iFad if you want, I love my shiny new iPad.  I took a quick look at what was possible educationally with the device.

Incorporating Innovation into Strategic Planning that Will Enrich Learning

The goals, dreams, and vision for learners, not technology, need to drive the plan.

MTA Eliminates 19th Century Technology from Students

The MTA has announced budget cuts that will eliminate the free metro-pass for students, requiring families to fork over $80+ dollars per child per month! 

Google Wave and Schools

There has been a lot of excitement in the technology-world about Google's new beta project, Google Wave.

Google's New Assessment Tool

Google's next big thing in education might not be Google Wave or Google Apps, but a new data-analysis tool they've been working on...

School of One

Not an Integrated Learning System: A New Vision for Teacher Collaboration and Specialization

2009 Innovative Principal Forum

We invited three principals of schools experimenting extensively with technology to speak with 65 of their peers.

Realizing the Promise of the 21st Century School: Leadership Forum

We are pleased to invite school leaders to our Annual School Leadership Forum 2009!

PS 5 Students in the Bronx Document the Impact of the XO

Check out the students at PS 5 in the Port Morris section of the Bronx and their amazing documentary about the history and impact of Nicholas Negroponte’s ground breaking XO pilot project in their school.

Twitter and Facebook - Your First Source for Current Events in Social Studies?

So I was thinking about the teaching opportunity presented by the Iran election. What a way to see democracy in action…

The Middle has Spoken!

Over 250 students performed poetry at Teaching Matters' Spoken Word Event

Civic Activists for a Digital Age

HUNDREDS of New York students made their voices heard on critical social issues of the day spanning child labor to racial profiling as part of the Voices and Choices program with Teaching Matters!

What if You Faced Virtual Students BEFORE You Took the Job

I had been waiting for someone to invent this. Simulations of some pretty challenging students to test the mettle and prepare pre-service educators. This video below says it all.

The Innovation Conversation Poised to Change the Education Debate

For those interested in education innovation made possible by technology you must read Bill Tucker’s new report - Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the Future of Student Assessment. Bill is reframing the debate between two key education camps.

Change You Can Believe In

For those interested in education innovation made possible by technology you must read Bill Tucker’s new report - Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the Future of Student Assessment.

Low Cost Computing: It’s Here! Now What?

Laptops are getting cheaper by the minute. In setting the bar to deliver the world’s first $100 laptop, Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman of One Laptop Per Child, inspired the development of an entire class of low cost machines now available to schools.

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