Posts By : “Daniela A. Robles”

I speak often about the ill effects of our testing culture on our students. My concerns tend to focus on the fact that when you give the “big test” five to six times a year, the significance of a student

Committing your life’s work to educating children is challenging. Educating children in Arizona often takes the idea of challenging to a new depth. Halfway through my 16th year of serving Arizona’s children, I will admit that I wonder if I

Today I facilitated a professional development session on Cognitive Complexity for a half of my staff. We began the session with a comparison task between solving two sample assessment problems. One problem was from AIMS based on the 2008 math standards,

Vampires, haunted houses, witches, goblins, ghosts-oh my! Tis the season to ponder what truly exists or is perhaps a figment of our imagination. As I tune out the sounds of werewolves howling, I find one reality truly frightening. The power

A few weeks back I attended a four day training hosted by a neighboring district. Now, there were the usual concerns associated with a near week long training…Which room would we be crammed into? Would there be adult size chairs?

School improvement. School transformation. School reform. Call me old fashioned, but I believe in the antiquated notion that if you ground your teachers in a collaborative culture with leadership that is focused on the specific needs of a school- teaching

The countdown is on…13 teaching days until our purpose for educating reaches the pinnacle…AIMS. Budget cuts are looming. 1.3 million dollars in cuts to be exact. And yet, the topic that is keeping me up at night has to do