WedJuly1

=**Wednesday, July 1, 2009**=

7:13 a.m. I'm planning on attending the "Fighting Dragons with Authentic Assessments" session in the Porter's closet of the Hyatt at 9:00 a.m. I'll let people know how it was -- Dan
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Hattie is planning to attend the following sessions:

3 Integrating CTE & Academics 16 Literacy Crisis

Glenn's report out for Wednesday: 3 Integrating CTE & Academics. I was waiting all conference for this session. It was a little disappointing because I've heard this before. It's all the 'Why' we need to change but not enough of the 'How' we make the change. The data shows that in this country we lead in early literacy and then fall way behind in HS. Even worse in college. "The number one reason students fail middle school and HS math was because of reading." By the time students leave HS in China they will have double the class time as US. Everyone needs to teach reading - in the content areas. CTE has high reading requirements (and many times gets kids with the lowest reading abilities). Blue collar workers now have a higher reading requirment then white collar. It's the oposite facts for math. We add higher levels then students need with out reinforcing the basics. Math teachers think different math standards are important then Business and Industry or teachers from other disciplines. The real work doesn't function in disciplines.
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