November 2017 Blog Posts (32)

Two Hours to Courage

TWO HOURS TO COURAGE

Dan Rockwell
Leadership Freak

Fear talks you out of exceptional and into mediocre.

Losing the conversation with fear means: problems persist, teams reach low, and you’re less of…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 10, 2017 at 9:12am — No Comments

When Evaluation Teaches

There is a commonly held belief in the world of teachers. That belief is that schools have a responsibility to teach students how to follow rules.  Compliance is a good thing. Red lights are not a suggestion and if they were, the number of car crashes would be on the rise.  But teaching through grades as punishment, that is another story. The stakes are higher certainly, the older the learner is. But using grades as punishment runs counter to all the work that needs to be done as…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on November 9, 2017 at 6:46am — No Comments

Coaching a Math Teacher (Education Realist)

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Added by Michael Keany on November 9, 2017 at 6:37am — No Comments

Are We Leading Change or Leading in a New Era?

 We have always highlighted our contention, and the convincing research and perspective of others, that leadership matters. Followership matters equally. Students benefit from strong, inspired leadership. Leadership brings the community together in times of crisis, articulates the direction and the purpose of movement forward, is vigilant to keep all safe as they travel on the learning journey, and keeps everyone coming back each day, not out of fear or consequence or retribution but…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on November 7, 2017 at 7:00am — No Comments

'Personalized Learning' is for Everyone in the System

At a recent conference, Bena Kallick demonstrated this truth to be evident in the room of 80 or so educators.  A thundering silence followed the question, "How do individualization and differentiation differ from personalized learning?" Can you answer this question?  If you answer it to yourself, how do you know you are right? If you ask one other person, how do you know you are both correct? If you research it on the web, how do you know your source is correct? These are the questions…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on November 5, 2017 at 7:34am — No Comments

Have you heard the word dysteachia?? You will.

Here is one of the most important fault lines in American K-12....

Many children in elementary school don't learn to read in a timely way. The school naturally doesn't want anyone to think it's their fault. So they blame the pupils. The  children have something wrong with their brains, some genetic mistake, some disability. It's not the school's fault if they can't teach a damaged child to read.

Quite commonly in the US, this genetic mistake is…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on November 4, 2017 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Alexa, Are You Safe For My Kids?



Alexa, Are You Safe For My Kids?…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 4, 2017 at 11:30am — No Comments

Proven Tutoring Approaches: The Path to Universal Proficiency by Robert E. Slavin

Proven Tutoring Approaches: The Path to Universal Proficiency
Robert E. Slavin

There are lots of problems in education that are fundamentally difficult. Ensuring success in early reading, however, is an exception. We know what skills children need in order to succeed in reading. No area of teaching has a better basis in high-quality research. Yet the reading…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 4, 2017 at 9:46am — No Comments

Should Leaders Stay or Go?

Often, the signs are right in front of us and are ignored. Other times, we simply refuse to recognize them at all. The will to pull our heads out of the sand and face the reality of what is happening is a survival choice. It comes with risk and courage. Facing the reality does not require that once we see view the landscape with unveiled eyes we must take a particular action. Not taking in the information, seeing it, feeling it, and deciding what to do or not do is a far more…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on November 2, 2017 at 7:00am — No Comments

You can teach a child to read

 Ever since 1931, when our Education Establishment terminated phonics in the public schools, literacy has been in free fall.

This whole thing is grotesque. The Emperor has no clothes; he's covered with red sores that suggest a horrible infection, probably syphilis. But 1000 professors of education ooooh and…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on November 1, 2017 at 8:49pm — No Comments

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