[caption id="attachment_1893" align="alignright" width="184"] "Frequent, regular and focused meetings help to thrust the work of teams forward to authentic school improvement."[/caption] It has been nearly a decade since Dufour (2007) advised that if principals promote a learning communities approach, then they are obligated to create structures
I remember the first time I was called to the principal’s office as an adult. The sweaty palms, my mind racing with questions, my heart in my throat. Questions about what I had done to spark a one-on-one meeting taunted me the whole way there,
Public education is the cornerstone of democracy. Its mission is to transmit the knowledge and skills needed for children to become productive and contributing members of society. Achieving this mission requires effective public school superintendents who understand the connection between the success of our public
One of my favorite elements of the Common Core is the standards’ emphasis on speaking and listening. These elements of language arts are often the victims of assumicide -- we assume that, since kids speak and listen all the time, we don’t need to teach
October is Connected Educators Month, and in honor of all of our Connected Educator friends and authors, we want to celebrate your successes and share the joy that comes from being connected. No matter if you were an early adopter of Twitter or just set up
[caption id="attachment_1858" align="alignright" width="185"] "Communicate honestly and with support and no one will feel the panic of driving on an unfamiliar highway with cars racing past us."[/caption] Honk! Honk! Whoosh! These were the sounds I heard multiplied by ten as I drove from La Guardia airport
Contributed by Spike Cook For school leaders, it is imperative to be the change you want to see in your school. As we understand more about the 21st century, and the changing nature of information, personalized learning, and preparing students for jobs that don’t currently exist, school
Contributed by Mark McCaffrey This post was originally published on NCSE.com. What do ISO 14000 and 4-ESS3-1 have in common? Both are standards. The first is a family of standards from the International Organization for Standardization developed in 1996 to “help organizations…minimize how their operations (processes etc.) negatively affect
Having established that argument is a big deal and worth much of our time and energy as teachers and students, let’s spend some time examining reading and writing today. I am always tweaking the non-freaked out approach (as you’ll see by comparing this post’s diagram with
In public education the achievement gap lives with us. Whether or not individuals within the enterprise accept the challenge of eliminating achievement gaps as a personal imperative, its presence remains a haunting mirror systemically. Seemingly, our concern with its stain accompanies students until graduation. However,