I am pleased to see a renewed emphasis on connectedness, collaboration, and shared responsibility. Our school in Miami-Dade was fortunate to be part of a pilot called School-Based Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM/SDM). As a principal new to the school, the teachers were eager for change and
Education in America has been around for several hundred years now, going back to colonial times in the 17th century. Back then, teachers were not only content experts, but also models for moral standards for children. I imagine that the concept of applying “moral turpitude”
Thoughts on Jim Knight’s keynote at the International Visible Learning Conference in Carlsbad, CA. Contributed by Jeffrey Spanier, English and AVID teacher, Carlsbad High School, CA Mr. Knight’s closing presentation focused on the teacher and student learning. This may seem inane to point out, but as a
In the first post in this series, we covered Collaborative Teacher Inquiry. Yesterday we talked about the first three partnership principles from Jim Knight. Today we’ll cover the remaining four principles. Principle #4 - Reflection: Reflection is an Integral Part of Professional Learning Knight (2011) notes that
In my first post, we covered the strategy of Collaborative Teacher Inquiry. In a training I recently attended with Jim, he also offered seven ‘Partnership Principles’ as a way of thinking and being in helping relationships. These ideas resonated with me as they can be applied
This is the first post in a three-part series on Collaborative Inquiry. Read Part Two: Partnership Principles 1-3 and Part Three: Partnership Principles 4-7. Collaborative teacher inquiry is a promising strategy for improving students’ well-being and achievement. During a collaborative inquiry cycle, teachers come together to: identify the
How could a book about Nazi Germany and a sport I know very little about have implications for my job as an editor? I have to admit that as I began reading The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, I never thought it