Effective teachers have a broad bank of instructional materials to supplement lesson design and delivery. Some of that material is purchased by teachers, and some of it is just material that school systems purchased during past textbook adoptions. It is a vast and valuable library that is often found in […]
Category: Organizational Structure
Relevancy in the Age of Information: Montessori Instructional Design vs Data Driven Instructional Design
Our school system’s convocation years ago featured a man who noted that within just a few short years our public schools would be rendered antiquated relics due to technology advancing so quickly that schools could not keep up with it. He was right. In my previous post, I was critical […]
Honey Bun Snacks and Student Discipline
I could do an entire blog on student discipline. I have worked in schools where student discipline was rarely a problem. I worked in a school where principals and assistant principals rewarded only the students who were struggling, and rarely recognized the kids who took care of business every day. […]
Authentic Professional Learning Communities – Part II
Continuing Education – A Better Approach. The very best professional development coordinator that I have ever worked with was a man who went by the name of Charles. He was our professional development coordinator at the time. He always had a wide range of pertinent speakers and collaborations available for […]
Are PLCs Really Learning Communities?
Professional Learning Communities. Three words which strike fear into the hearts of efficient educators. Ongoing education is important in any field, but rarely do I see other professions waste large portions of their employees’ workdays to do it. As you can tell already, I am not a huge fan of […]
It is time to re-invent, re-think, and re-imagine the entire process of educating students…
To be blunt, we have too many people in the system of American education who are just blowhards. They sound good. Their presentations are well-polished. Fancy new acronyms are employed. Research from some obscure source supports their presentations- maybe even funded by the person talking. Everyone nods their heads in […]
The Dilemma of Data Conferences
Have you ever done something in your life, and at the end of that mini-journey been like, “Yeah, I went a bit overboard with that, and that sucked the joy right from it at the end of the day?” Welcome to the world of student data and data conferences. If […]
An Introduction
The “why” to this blog….