March Blog

Research, research, research! My seniors have officially started their final research projects and are loving it. They are researching the UN Millennium Goals and many of them are using academic journals for the first time ever. Too many times research skills are dismissed as a lesser skill because it is not evaluated on CSAP; but, I argue that if our students can research well they can: critically read; summarize; paraphrase; analyze reliability, credibility, and bias; synthesize; and evaluate. Research brings in the highest level of skills we can offer to our students if it is done correctly. Without the ability to research our students will be missing essential skills when they graduate from high school. If a student can research well, he/she can do anything. We need to fight to bring research back into our classrooms on a more consistent basis BEFORE their senior year of high school.