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Guest Post: PD Gets Personal
This is NOT a blog about getting rid of staff meetings. This is about rethinking staff meetings, PD, and whether we as leaders are practicing what we preach.
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Questions for Students
How do we get students to engage in work that they are passionate about? Start by asking students these questions.
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Showing Up
Showing up can be hard. Think about the kid who struggles. The outsider. The kid without friends. The one who gets picked on. They show up. Everyday. Anticipating the…
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Intervention as Intervention
For many of our struggling learners, we often provide as many interventions as possible. The word intervention can be used to cover any number of strategies, prescribed, scripted programs,…
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Telling a Good Story
Whether you are selling a product, or an idea, selling a restaurant or a concept, or selling an experience or some combination of these things, chances are your ability…
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The Entrepreneurial Bug
The entrepreneurial bug hit my house big time over Winter Break. It all started about six months ago when my son decided he was going to buy his first…
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Late Bloomers
In a a few weeks I’ll turn 44. In just a few days my first book will be released. By any definition, I’m a late bloomer. My book is…
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The Problem with Lesson Plans
We strive for our classrooms to be learner-centric, where students are at the center, managing, collaborating, choosing, making decisions, and owning their learning. We ask teachers to develop lesson…
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Measuring Smiles
What if, when a principal observed a lesson, he or she focused on how many times the kids and the teacher smiled? How would that change instruction? How would…