Blogs
CEI-PEA facilitates the Charter Notebook, a blog that provides insights, analysis and advice from experts in public education, particularly independent charter schools, on a range of topics valuable to all educators, including how to implement the Common Core to advance the mission of your public school, how to start your own charter school, effective budgeting strategies, and much more. Recent posts include:
04.10.2013 – Discipline: Why it’s so difficult for transfer schools by Lisa DiGaudio
04.09.2013 – Common Core and Data: How do we do this? by Lisa DiGaudio
03.12.2013 – The “Organization” by Lisa DiGaudio
03.11.2013 – The Year One Audit by Lisa DiGaudio
02.28.2013 – Checkpoints by Lisa DiGaudio
02.27.2013 – Looking ahead to a new semester, and beyond… by Lisa DiGaudio
02.26.2013 – Writing the High School Schedule by Lisa DiGaudio
02.19.2013 – Common Core… Yep it’s still here! by Lisa DiGaudio
02.19.2013 – The Regents Crunch! by Lisa DiGaudio
02.05.2013 – Student Achievement and the At-Risk by Lisa DiGaudio
02.04.2013 – Can’t we just get along? by Lisa DiGaudio
01.04.2013 – This is harder than it looks! by Lisa DiGaudio
12.03.2012 – To Bell or Not to Bell? More on School Culture by Lisa DiGaudio
11.30.2012 – The Things They Don’t Tell You… Part Two! by Lisa DiGaudio
11.08.2012 – When Disaster Strikes by Lisa DiGuadio
11.07.2012 – Getting a hold on the little things by Lisa DiGaudio
10.22.2012 – CCSS, PD and You! by Lisa DiGaudio
10.22.2012 – The Common Core, ELL’s and SWD’s: The ABC’s of Succeeding with CCSS by Lisa DiGaudio
10.09.2012 – How to Obtain More Family Involvement! by Joe Nathan
10.09.2012 – How the Tri-State Rubric Can Gauge Your Progress by Lisa DiGaudio
10.09.2012 – Common Core Year Two: What to do? by Lisa DiGaudio
08.29.2012 – The Bucket List by Lisa DiGaudio
08.14.2012 – Preparing for Pre-service by Lisa DiGaudio
08.13.2012 – The Things They Don’t Tell You by Lisa DiGaudio
08.09.2012 – Common Core Math Shift 6: Dialing Up Intensity Through Drills and Projects by Lisa DiGaudio
08.08.2012 – Common Core Math Shift 5: Applying What You Know to the Real World by Lisa DiGaudio
07.30.2012 – Common Core Instructional Shift 6: Words, Words, Words! by Lisa DiGaudio
07.29.2012 – Common Core Instructional Shift 5: We’re not playing telephone, people! by Lisa DiGaudio
07.18.2012 – Do You Speak My Language? A Case Study of Hellenic Classical Charter School in Brooklyn, New York by Charisse A. Gulosino
07.17.2012 – Getting “Deep” With Math Instructional Shift 4 by Lisa DiGaudio
07.16.2012 – Common Core ELA Shift 4: Show Me the Evidence by Lisa DiGaudio
07.13.2012 – Common Core Instructional Shift 3: Where Exactly is the Staircase Going? by Lisa DiGaudio
07.12.2012 – Math Common Core Instructional Shift 3: Fluency by Lisa DiGaudio
07.03.2012 – Making Math Coherent: Shift 2 by Lisa DiGaudio
06.28.2012 – Is the Common Core Making Creativity and Testing an “Either or” Kind of Thing? by Lisa DiGaudio
06.26.2012 - Making it Tangible: A “Holistic” Approach to Wellness Education by Tovah Gottesman
06.25.2012 – Financially Affiliated Directors’ Influence on Charter School Performance by Dr. Charisse A. Gulosino
06.21.2012 – Will the Leaders Please Stand Up & be Accountable for ELLs? by Aretha Miller, Founder and President of The Venn Group, Inc.
06.19.2012 – The Day After Approval: What’s Next? by Lisa DiGaudio, New Dawn Charter School
06.18.2012 – Let’s Get a Grant! by Shawn Stelow Griffin
06.15.2012 – The Budget Supports the Mission: Make it Work for You! by Shawn Stelow Griffin
06.14.2012 – Strategies for Providing Effective College Access Supports and Services by Taliah Givens, Council of Chief State School Officers
06.12.2012 – After You Get Your Charter – Hiring Great Staff by Lisa DiGaudio
The views expressed in Charter Notebook blogs represent the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Center for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association or the U.S. Department of Education.