N.M. Schools
A schools blog by Hailey Heinz
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Do you know the “five finger rule”?
As I promised in a blog post last month, today the Journal published my story on reading instruction. Since New Mexico’s current administration has a strong focus on reading, I... Read more »
Parents: How would you like to be engaged?
This afternoon I’m working on a story about Albuquerque Public Schools’ efforts to more meaningfully engage parents in their children’s educations. It’s one of the district’s four broad goals for... Read more »
New Mexico Gets Grant for Latino Success
A somewhat small but significant grant from a national private foundation will help New Mexico educators and community members coalesce to improve Latino student success, a UNM leader said Thursday.... Read more »
Charismatic Leaders: how much should we focus on them?
Today on the Schools page, I wrote about my visit to Laguna-Acoma Jr/Sr High (say that three times fast). In the story, I tried to capture the key elements of... Read more »
NM needs scientists, and I plug Leadership NM
Last year, the good people at the Journal were nice enough to send me through the Leadership New Mexico program for “emerging leaders.” In addition to being tons of fun,... Read more »
Teaching reading is fundamental, and not as simple as it sounds
You’ll probably find that a refrain on this blog will be, “It’s complicated.” And no, not the movie, although I am fond of it. Many things in education sound simple,... Read more »
Classroom Observations: the tough part of teacher evals that no one is talking about
Welcome to my blog! I’ll be using this space to interact with parents, teachers and other readers with an interest in education in NM. It will include tidbits that don’t... Read more »
