Know Your Data!
As school leader, and educator, it pays to know your data. It is easy to confuse data with information, though. Certainly information can help make decisions, but it is all the combined data, of...
View Article6 School Leadership Questions Answered
Making decisions at a district or school leadership level raises many questions. It is not easy. It may be near impossible to do in isolation. Actually, many times more problems can occur with a...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Teaching Reading
I know from experience, from having done it, that teaching reading is a tremendous challenge, and that first grade teachers need to be experts at teaching students to read. Teaching reading does not...
View ArticleWhat Is A Modern Classroom?
I could simply start out and end with the statement that no one really knows what a modern classroom is, because we haven’t really seen one, yet. But that would be a bit over the top, and possibly a...
View ArticleInstructional Education Technology Continuum
In some school places it is understandable to still hear educators say, “My students know technology, but I don’t know much about technology.” I have to admit that when I hear that statement in some...
View ArticleDon’t Complicate Learning for Kids!
Sometimes we seem to complicate even the simplest things, and learning could be a perfect example. Could learning be as simple as keeping the student engagement switches on, or turning them back on, if...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Teaching Observation
I was recently at a teaching gathering of active and former educators of varying ages. They all had similar, but not very positive, observation and teacher evaluation stories. The conversation was...
View ArticleSchool Leaders Lead Collaboratively
There are huge advantages for school leaders to lead collaboratively, today. It is the only way to empower followers to not only be part of the process of moving forward, but it offers a possibility of...
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8 Top Global Education Thinkers
Meet 8 Top Global Education Thinkers you should know. John Connell John Connell (@I_Am_Learner) is an education expert and strategist with wide experience across all the key sectors and at all levels...
View Article6 Steps for Building a Collaboration Classroom
Building a Collaboration Classroom could be the answer for budget-strapped schools and districts finding it difficult to outfit every classroom with all the latest technology tools educators and...
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