Patricia Zimmerman CSDE Educational Consultant Currently, there are three self-nomination programs available to Connecticut teachers to recognize exemplary teacher. These programs reward teacher initiatives for professional development and life-long learning. They are the federal Blue Ribbon Schools program, awarded on…
Connecticut State Department of Education Initiatives
Kristina Elias and Joseph Gambini CDSE Reading/Language Consultants The State Department of Educations has had a number of new initiatives this year. In September, the Third Generation of the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) was given for the first time. Teachers…
Matching Children With Texts: A Study of Parental Knowledge
Antoinette Fornshell CARR Scholarship Winner, 1999 As a language arts consultant, I have helped countless teachers understand the importance of matching children with books. I have come to realize that as teachers, we look at books differently than the average…
LANGUAGE ARTS RESEARCH IN CONNECTICUT: An Agenda for the Present and the Future
Douglas Kaufman, Ph.D. Almost twenty years ago a literacy revolution hit our schools. When Donald Graves published Writing: Teachers and Children at Work in 1983, he prompted an avalanche of research and writing that transformed reading and writing instruction in…