http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/08/31/podcast79-reject-rigor-embrace-differentiation-flexibility-and-high-expectations/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:53:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/08/31/podcast79-reject-rigor-embrace-differentiation-flexibility-and-high-expectations/#comment-16511 Moving at the Speed of Creativity » Blog Archive » Troubled by a literacy Google search Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:56:56 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/08/31/podcast79-reject-rigor-embrace-differentiation-flexibility-and-high-expectations/#comment-16511 [...] This core message is, more than anything else, we need to PROVIDE MORE ACCESS TO TEXT for our young people (better libraries, open more hours of the day) and encourage more FVR: Free Voluntary Reading. Yes, teachers do need access to high-quality curriculum, but no evidence I have ever seen AND ACTUALLY BELIEVE or educational experience I’ve had suggests that a RIGOROUS curriculum pacing program like Voyager is what our kids need. If you’ve just fallen out of your seat at the suggestion that we don’t need RIGOROUS, heavy-handed educational interventions, give a listen to “Podcast79: Reject Rigor: Embrace Differentiation, Flexibility, and High Expectations.” [...] [...] This core message is, more than anything else, we need to PROVIDE MORE ACCESS TO TEXT for our young people (better libraries, open more hours of the day) and encourage more FVR: Free Voluntary Reading. Yes, teachers do need access to high-quality curriculum, but no evidence I have ever seen AND ACTUALLY BELIEVE or educational experience I’ve had suggests that a RIGOROUS curriculum pacing program like Voyager is what our kids need. If you’ve just fallen out of your seat at the suggestion that we don’t need RIGOROUS, heavy-handed educational interventions, give a listen to “Podcast79: Reject Rigor: Embrace Differentiation, Flexibility, and High Expectations.” [...]

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/08/31/podcast79-reject-rigor-embrace-differentiation-flexibility-and-high-expectations/#comment-15353 Richard Drake Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:27:28 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/08/31/podcast79-reject-rigor-embrace-differentiation-flexibility-and-high-expectations/#comment-15353 I rather like the word rigor. I always associate it with vigor, discipline and precision. I was surprised by the dictionary definitions that associate it with stiffness and death - rigormortis. I rather like the word rigor. I always associate it with vigor, discipline and precision. I was surprised by the dictionary definitions that associate it with stiffness and death - rigormortis.

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