Confidence, as an educator, is something that is not a skill to be taught. It is not a method to be memorized. It is an attitude. It is a state of mind. It is also elusive to many educators. How do we foster confidence? How do we enable educators to be confident in their profession?

To answer the question of confidence, I rely on my understanding of what I know of my own struggles with confidence. I am only confident in areas that I have a proven knowledge of the subject. I…

January 8, 2012

Language Education We Can Use

As the global nature of work and life in the 21st century becomes clearer by the day, calls for a greater focus on international education and language learning are growing louder.…

A Son’s Fears and A Father’s Response

Catholic Education, in Need of Salvation

By PATRICK J. McCLOSKEY and JOSEPH CLAUDE HARRIS

CATHOLIC parochial education is in crisis. More than a…

Why So Many Schools Remain Penitentiaries of Boredom

Where Are the Next Successful Principals Coming From? Creating a strong candidate pool through informal internships is a step in the right direction.

by Dr. Donald Sternberg

WANTED

Wanted, a new principal to fill the vacancy of a departing administrative staff member! The superintendent is looking for a bright, energetic, hardworking individual with pedagogical expertise whose…

As I have been reflecting on my letter to Dr. John King, our esteemed Commissioner of Education here in New York State, I realize that I can no longer wait for a response as it has been over two months since I sent him the letter in the hopes that a conversation can begin about what is best for our students and school. Clearly, either he has not read it (I am…

Inspiring Others

Pieholes, hellfire and lifelong missions to have your job

By …

Leadership Matters: Why doesn’t my school have an armed guard?

By Erica Brown · January 3, 2013 - JTA

Dear Erica,

I am very frustrated with the leadership of my children's preschool. After the Newtown killings, I went straight to the head of the school and asked why we can't have an armed guard outside the building. The school did send out an email to the entire…

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U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead

Expanded Learning Time as an Avenue to Change

Twenty-first century teaching and learning pose stark challenges, as we seek both to educate all of our children and to do so to a level of…

Why Superintendents Turn Over

By Andrew Saraf

That urban superintendents have short tenures—an average of three years—is well known in the education community. But little empirical research has been done to ascertain why or to determine whether this trend holds for suburban and rural supes, too. This study by Jason Grissom (Vanderbilt) and Stephanie Anderson (Washington University) seeks to do both. The authors analyze survey data (of both…

January 3, 2012