As educational leaders, be you teachers or administrators, students or citizens, you know that what you do matters far more than what you say, and today is that call to action. We are outraged by the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and a...
About this time of year, some of our colleagues begin counting down to retirement – not in days, weeks, or months – but in Board meetings. If you are one of these fortunate few, now that it’s November, it may be 7, 14, or (gasp) 28, but in any case, the end of...
The MIT Technology Review (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/) reported on an intriguing experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organization. In Ethiopia, the researchers placed boxes full of...
“College and career readiness,” for all students has become a national, state, and district benchmark in recent years and shows no signs of disappearing any time soon. Despite the push from every level of government, there has not been much progress, and I...
If you follow educational trends, you have most likely heard the buzz around teaching a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset. What does that mean? A student with a fixed mindset believes that his or her intelligence is static, while a student with a growth...
