Anthony Cody, national-board-certified teacher and peer coach

Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody taught science and math for eighteen years at Bret Harte Middle School, in Oakland, California. Cody became one of Oakland's first national-board-certified teachers in 2000 and served as a coach for certification candidates. He developed a teacher-led science-curriculum project in Oakland and is helping lead Project POSIT, a partnership funded by the state Department of Education that is helping teachers in grades 4-8 improve their science instruction through teacher research. Cody is active in the Teacher Leaders Network and was one of eighteen teachers who authored the influential TeacherSolutions report on performance pay for teachers.


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An Unfair Game: Standardized Testing Ruins a School's Spirit

By Anthony Cody

4/24/08

This is my third blog post here at Edutopia.org, so maybe it is time to introduce myself in the actual style of a blog and explain a bit about what my goals are in doing this.

Silent Statistics: Student-Performance Data Misses the Most Important Outcomes

By Anthony Cody

3/26/08

Recently, consultants who were reviewing the data systems the California Department of Education uses to track student performance interviewed me. I have had to wrestle with how I feel about the whole process, because unfortunately, I think the emphasis on data has not been the boon to students and educators that was promised. But as someone with a background in science, I have an inherent love of data. More information is always better than less. So how can it be that data could do harm?

Creative Play and Scientific Inquiry: A Mandate to Make Learning Meaningful

By Anthony Cody

3/13/08

This is the second part of a two-part entry. Click here to read part one.

Creative Play and Scientific Inquiry: Preparing Kids for More Than Just a Test

By Anthony Cody

3/12/08

Creative play on the part of young children may be far more valuable than anyone has realized. I caught a fascinating story about this issue on NPR last week.