Your Best

Your Best

  Your best readers read a lot. Your best athletes engage with sports a lot. Your best artists draw a lot. Your best singers sing a lot. Your best dancers…
10 PD Ideas!

10 PD Ideas!

Last week, I had the chance to moderate the #MSAAChat (Massachusetts Administrators Association) on Twitter. The discussion centered around shifting Professional Development and Professional Learning practices, and the participants certainly…
Permission or Forgiveness?

Permission or Forgiveness?

  There are times when I feel extremely frustrated with the lack of change in our educational system. Change comes at a snail’s pace. Many drag their feet. Some flat…
Opportunities for Next Year

Opportunities for Next Year

  As you finish the year, you'll want to ask this one question: Did I help every student to reach his or her potential?   If the answer is NO,…
Unwrite the Pages

Unwrite the Pages

  This one is for the graduates. For years, you have spent time writing your story, or allowing others to write your story. Those who you have spent time with…
Ending with Choice

Ending with Choice

  This is the second year that I have run a 100% choice art room. One of the unforeseen benefits has been it’s created a much better end to my…
Discover & Learn

Discover & Learn

  The world continues to move at an incredible pace. Even if you are standing still, you are falling behind. As technology develops, and people find faster, better, and easier…
20 Words. Great Artists.

20 Words. Great Artists.

  20 words. 10 sticky notes, 2 words each. Trying to spark ideas, thoughts, debate, questions, conversation. Let us know what you think at #4OCF on Twitter.   Rich (@RACzyz)
Measuring Things

Measuring Things

  I think that one of the side effects of collecting data to ensure students’ academic growth is that educators are constantly under pressure to put things in front of…