Travels with Tyler: Dayton Office, Annual K-12 Management Meeting
by Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer Last week, Westchester’s K-12 division brought our managers into our Dayton, Ohio office for a day of meetings and strategy sessions. Our K-12 managers from all over the country came in, and we even had the pleasure of Walter Henderson joining us from his seasonal home in France. …
Is your production team keeping up with the latest developments?
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director This quote shows up on LinkedIn pretty frequently, due to how true it is: “Boss: What if we invest in training people on the latest technology and skills and they leave?” “Manager: What if we don’t and they stay?” It’s important that your production team keeps their skills up…
Is Print versus Digital the Correct Question?
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director My colleague Tyler M. Carey shared this article, which dives into the perennial digital vs. print debate. The article makes a compelling case as to why, even after years of its pronouncement to the contrary, print isn’t dead. As I read it, I was struck by a way in…
What Goes into Creating Good ELT Content?
by Walter Henderson, Jr., Senior Supervising Editor, ELT When ELT teachers answer this question, we expect their responses to match our own internal checklist: ‘integrated skills?’, ‘authentic audio?’, ‘communicative activities?’, ‘valid and reliable assessments?’, etc. The checklists are important given that most ELT teaching and learning practices, if not dominated, are at least mediated by…
Westchester Wrap-up: Summer 2019
by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager In the summer months, the pace typically slows down, allowing an opportunity to relax and enjoy the longer, warmer days summertime offers up. While all of us at Westchester made sure to take some time to spend with friends and family, we were still working hard to make…
In the Community: Carondelet Leadership Academy, St. Louis, MO
Every month, one member of the Westchester K-12 team has the opportunity to make a positive difference by contributing to a classroom project on DonorsChoose.org that is in need of funding. For the month of September, Roger Market, Senior Project Manager, tells us about the project he chose to support. Name/Location of School: Carondelet…
A Hybrid Approach for Assessment
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director While the assessment debate has long pitted summative year-end tests against formative in-course ones, some states are looking to a hybrid approach to gauge student performance. As outlined in this article from EdSurge, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and New Hampshire are looking to recast their assessment molds, relying more heavily on check-ins throughout the…
Phenomena for Next Generation Science Standards
by David Bailis, STEM Content Director The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are different from the science content standards of old because they are not simply based on knowing random science content. Before the NGSS, a student may have been asked to know only the three basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, and…
In the Community: Samuel Fels High School, Philadelphia, PA
The Westchester K-12 DonorsChoose initiative has had a very positive impact on our team. Each person who has participated has experienced a high level of gratitude in having the opportunity to support public school classrooms throughout the country, and our Director of Creative Services, Mark DaGrossa – a naturally jolly person – was understandably…