The E-hints are categorized by the following topics:

• Assessment
• Curriculum
• Governance/Leadership
• Grading
• Instruction

You may click on one of the above topics or choose to scroll through all the titles below.

ASSESSMENT

1. Aligning
2. Aligning Assessments for More Than One Purpose
3. A Checklist for Implementing Common Assessments
4. The Confusion Surrounding "Formative Assessment"
5. Creating Rubrics
6. Motivating Students for High-Stakes Testing
7. Teaching to the Test

CURRICULUM

1. Adding Technology to Bloom
2. Are High Schools Really Preparing Students for College? 
   PART I
3. Are High Schools Really Preparing Students for College? PART II
4. Bigger Is Not Always Better
5. Build a House: An Education Analogy
6. Chairing the Subject Area Committee
7. Curricular Architecture that Embodies Both 21st Century Skills and Technology Literacy
8. Curricular Architecture that Embodies Both 21st Century Skills and Technology Literacy - Part Two
9. Checklist for Principals — Implementation
10. Decision Making — When you have Separate Grade-level Standards
11. Does Your Local Curriculum Pass the "Local" Test?
12. How Important Are Words Anyhow?
13. The Importance of Teacher Input and Validation in Curriculum Development
14. More About Curriculum Integration
15. A New Look at Verification of Alignment with Standards
16. Priorities when Implementing a New Curriculum
17. The Responsibility of High School Teachers On a Subject Area Committee
18. The Role of the School Counselor in the Curriculum Process
19. Scope and Sequence in an Era of State and National Standards
20. Second Cycle Curriculum Writing
21. Subject Integration Starts with Coherently Written Intentions, Not Just "Merged Activities"
22. Teacher Professionalism Requires Intellectual Engagement

GOVERNANCE/LEADERSHIP

1. 21st Century Learning Skills Partnership
2. Agenda Format for a Curriculum Coordinating Council
3. Beginning a new school year - CCC
4. The Case for Academic Leadership
5. Change
6. Compliance and School Leadership
7. The Curriculum Coordinating Council's Responsibility to Scientifically-Based Research
8. Educational Accountability Revisited
9. Following the Trends: A Job for your Curriculum Coordinating Council
10. How Can a School Produce and Manage All That Data?
11. How Do New Teachers Learn About the District's Processes for Managing Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment?
12. Leadership Tips from Douglas Reeves
13. More About Successful Schools
14. Now is the Time to Keep Our Eyes on the Educational Gold Standard
15. Principles for Effective Professional Development
16. Professional Learning Communities and CLI
17. Professional Scholarship Revisited
18. Promoting Collaborative Efforts
19. Reaching Quality Consensus
20. Schools that Break the Mold
21. The School District's Decision-Making and Action-Taking Culture
22. The Secondary Education Culture
23. Steering High Schools in a New Direction
24. Steering the NCLB Titanic in a New Direction
25. True Academic Leadership
26. The Underlying Causes of Low-Performing Schools
27. Use your Long Range Plan!
28. Utilize Your Existing Resources for Cost-Effective Staff Development
29. What is Collaboration, Anyway?
30. Why Don't We See Improvement?

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GRADING

1. Determining a Single Grade from Multiple and Varied Scoring Tools
2. Grade Reporting in Primary Grades
3. Grading issues... The Use of Zero
4. Grading Principles
5. It is Possible to use Rubric Scores to Calculate Grades
6. No Such Thing as "Extra Credit"
7. Turning a Rubric into a Grade

INSTRUCTION

1. Finding Time for Elementary Science and Social Studies
2. Getting Students Involved in Their Learning
3. Hints for New Teachers
4. How to Survive Budget Cuts without Sacrificing Student Learning
5. Keep the Big Picture in Focus
6. More on Selecting Resources
7. Questions About the Instructional Planning Resource
8. The Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
9. Selecting Resources
10. A System for Critiquing the Lesson Plan Resource
11. When Students Are Not Learning
12. Whose Students Are These?

 

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