In the last few years, an attempt to extinguish bullying has taken center stage.  Few disagree with the premise that bullying is harmful and must not be accepted in our schools.  But, a narrow focus on bullying can be a distraction from the bigger value of overall social emotional health. Students' "emotional centers of the brain" have an impact on cognitive learning.  …

Getting Better Together: PLC Leadership and Number Talks…

Robert Slavin

The potential for gender bias lies within all of us. There are educators in classrooms who tend to call one gender more frequently, accept a brief answers given by boys and expect and welcome longer answers from girls, throughout the building there are those who greet boys with a pat on the back and girls with a gentle hand on the shoulder. Encouragement is offered, even in the earliest of years, in ways that are gender defining. The long held term "guys" is considered gender neutral,…

How a social media hashtag can build school engagement 

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Principals should use social media such as Twitter and Facebook to effectively communicate with parents and other…

How educators are encouraging independent reading 

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Educators and librarians are finding ways to…

Teachers need tools and support to be effective in their work and maintain emotional well-being. Although the rewards can be profound, educators face job stresses that challenge the maintenance of emotional balance. Teachers are tasked with creating a structured learning environment that promotes academic achievement, intellectual curiosity and social-emotional development. Accountability to standardized learning outcomes intensifies the demands of teaching.…

Money Does Matter After All By C. Kirabo Jackson…

Opportunity Culture Outcomes: The First Two Years By Emily Ayscue Hassel…

We recently wrote a post on shared values and the important way those shared values, when lived in practice, can help the organization. This is especially true when parents and students trust the invitation to join teachers and school leaders to contribute to student success.  Trust is essential in an efficacious and healthy organization. Stephen Covey described it as the bank account…

While some teachers think that summer is a time when you can relax and enjoy warm weather, I take it as a personal and professional challenge to find as much information as I can before the school starts.

This summer I went through the newest educational apps most of us either ignored or didn’t know exist.

In this article, I will list…

Bottom 5%

by Peter Greene…