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The Key to Lessening Pressure AND Increasing Rigor

The Key to Lessening Pressure AND Increasing Rigor

January 10, 2016
David Aderhold, a superintendent in New Jersey recently put an end to HS mid-term and final exams in a well-intentioned attempt to ease pressure on increasingly anxious kids–pressure also discussed in this...
To Raise or To Ruin

To Raise or To Ruin

December 8, 2015
A 3d graphic of the words in the question What Do You Think? This could be used to encourage people to participate in a survey or poll and ask their...
Teachers, Innovation and the Evolution of Schools

Teachers, Innovation and the Evolution of Schools

April 3, 2014
Last Friday afternoon at the Business Innovation Factory, four teams of teachers, including a team from my network, shared their stories of collaborative design thinking. This “storytelling” event was the...
Teachers’ Messages and Student Engagement

Teachers’ Messages and Student Engagement

March 6, 2014
I spent an hour recently visiting classrooms. First day after a break, with an anticipated snow day to follow, it could have been easy to lose the student engagement fight....
Gorillas and Teacher Evaluation

Gorillas and Teacher Evaluation

March 5, 2014
Let me just say this at the start–I’m in favor of systematized teacher evaluation systems. Here in Rhode Island, we have taken elements of the Danielson framework and built a...
Improve your PLC

Want to improve your PLC? Act like children.

January 24, 2014
During Instructional Rounds recently, I had the pleasure of joining a triad of 7 year old students engaged in conversation on the rug. The three had just read a book...
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