Leadership
Improving Leadership by Improving Yourself
Listen to Randy Weiner and James Bailey discuss how to lead SEL by modeling it on the Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast with Peter DeWitt: Recent research on the principalship (Grissonm et al., 2021) shows the experience level of principals since 2016 has decreased from an average of 10 years to 7 years,
Visible Learning
Direct Instruction is Not the Enemy
What we believe matters. Whether we are talking about our choice of restaurants, the cars we drive, the shoes we wear, or the sports team we cheer for on
A Matrix of Feedback for Learning: A Brief Summary
In this post, we provide a summary of a recent study that sought to determine which types and levels of feedback are most common in
Finding the Balance of Surface and Deep Learning: John Hattie Responds to Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn has raised a critical point in his recent podcast about my work (Episode 11 of “The Shape of Education to Come,” available on
Teaching Methods
One Key to Unlocking Learning: Educational Scaffolds
The term scaffolding has been used in educational circles for decades, tracing back to 1976 when Wood, Bruner, and Ross suggested that this could be
How to Improve Feedback for All: New Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities
Over the years in preservice and in-service settings, we’ve asked, “What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see or hear the word
Teaching Students Not Content
Three Ways to Keep Student Identities Front and Center in the Mathematics Classroom While our jobs as educators involve teaching content, it is also true and
