The important things you missed in Dallas education this past week and the rest of January 2016.

The break is half way over and there's only a few days left in 2015. What do we do now?

There's only so much Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and other TV to go around. Personally, I'm catching up on Heroes Reborn, but I'm also starting to get my next semester planned. While i'm traveling next week, we'll be bring you something special for the new year.

Starting today, we'll be bringing you a countdown of our ten high points and ten low points from the last year plus a Dallas education moment of the year. So stay tuned. 

Until then, here's 3 months of Dallas education. Positive and negative moments of the year number 10 coming soon.

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December in Review:
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - December Week 4
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - December Week 3
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - December Week 2
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - December Week 1

November in Review
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - November Week 4
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - November Week 3 
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - November Week 2 
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - November Week 1 

October in Review
DISD and Dallas Education rundown - October Week 5
DISD and Dallas Education rundown - October Week 4
DISD and Dallas Education rundown - October Week 3
DISD and Dallas Education rundown - October Week 2
DISD and Dallas Education rundown - October Week 1

Winter break is only a week away. Only December assessments stand in the way. What better way to celebrate than buying something from the Dallas Education Blog Store?

No new Dallas Education Podcast this week. Taking some time off so we can bring you a few special things over the holiday break.

Here's what you missed while you were helping your kids review for their end of semester exams.

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From us:

New DISD Student Failure Rate Interventions
​Being inspired by DISD Students
DISD Students feel supid when they fail tests
Congratulating DISD Principals of the Year
​When DISD Teachers are the worst students
Slavery Ended Only 150 Years Ago

DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - December Week 1

From around the web:

How and why we should let students fail - Cult of Pedagogy
Breaking down the battle for Pre-K in DISD - Learning Curve
DISD Adds More Low Performing Schools - DMN
Black Children won't succeed with less public school accountability - Citizen Ed
In Class Student Conferences - Starr Sackstein
Reflections on the Every Student Succeeds Act - EP
Collaboration in Kentucky - TNTP
Arne Duncan's Legacy - EP
DISD Students Advance to Finals in MLK competition - DMN

Most of this week you had off which is great. We'll give you the best from Monday and Tuesday to chew on while you enjoy the rest of your break. Thanks for using your downtime to read and listen to us. We appreciate it.

Why does Teach for America get 2 weeks in a row of the Dallas Education Podcast? Because TFA isn't going anywhere, and the organization is providing a good number of much needed new teachers to Dallas area classrooms. May as well hear the TFA side of things. If you don't like it, you've been invited to say why on the show, comment section, etc. Open and eternal invitation. We like to talk to everyone. Yes, that means you.

Why do we scour the internet for education stuff every week? So you don't have to. Here's what you missed.

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From Us: 
Thanks to all Dallas Education Supporters
Dallas Student Engagement Students
Dallas Students don't read anymore
Dallas Students don't write anymore 
DISD Administrators send mixed messages before breaks

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November
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - November Week 3 
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - November Week 2 
DISD and Dallas Education Rundown - November Week 1 

From Around the Web:

Using Feedback to Get Better - Starr Sackstein
Goofy Administrators help kids - Cult of Pedagogy 
​Modernizing and elevating teaching - EP
Potential Implications of ESEA on students of color - EP
Dr. Dryden Weighs in with TEI Concerns - DISD Blog

I love listening to other podcasts and reading other education blogs because they are not only interesting, but help me alter my instruction to make my class better for my kids. If you've got some free time, take a listen.

SAGA Pod w/ Eric Celeste & Jim Schutze was my gym/ride to work podcast today, and though I'm admittedly a little behind since this came out on the 14th, their breakdown of groups and their relationship to education was thorough and provocative. I like their format and it's clear both of them have done their homework. Not only do they have some numbers, but they sound like they've talked to real people with skin in the game.

K-12 Greatest Hits is great for instructional ideas. Just yesterday I was thinking through and complaining about not being able to grade papers fast enough. The episode from yesterday was about just that. The teacher on the show was talking about how she's flipped the editing process by implementing a peer editing system. Check it out. I won't be doing it this go around, but it's something I'm going to look into going forward.