Our Schools Need Leaders, Not Managers

Psst! Your Writing Instruction Is of Little Consequence

Lack of funding, crumbling infrastructures, reduced faculties and administration, low salaries, corruption and poverty are all contributing factors to school failures. Now, the rise in the number of competing charter schools is either another causal factor for failures or the long sought solution. Just as it is not unusual for teachers to think of their sphere of influence as their classroom or school, we, as leaders, may limit our thinking to our local buildings or districts. But,…

Award-Winning Kids' Books…

Schools are faced with moral dilemmas every day.  The implementation of a new set of standards may come accompanied with moral dilemmas.  Even more obvious are the dilemmas about team names and mascots. Schools who have taken on the fight between those who hold strongly to the tradition of a name and those who feel deeply the offensive meaning of a name know the difficult nature of the fray as they engae the two groups and come to a decision. Other moral dilemmas are presented in…

 Schools will immediately become better if reading is taught correctly in the first few grades. in fact, all the phonics experts say you can do it four or five months.

 The problem now is that many teachers do not realize they have been given hopeless methods and unreachable goals. The only thing sadder than the situation just described is that so many teachers put up with it.

 So let's cut to the chase. Children cannot be…

10 Strategies to Improve Instructional Leadership

A Principal's Reflections by Eric Sheninger

Student engagement, project-based learning, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, inclusion, STEM, blended learning, online learning, writing across the curriculum, authentic learning and assessment, team teaching...all these goals and movements within education can become catchwords or overused phrases. Before the fall momentum takes over, there are opportunities to enter a deeper conversations about what we have chosen as priorities and why. Those conversations span the…

EMC E20-065 Practice Test Importance:

It is important to pursue professional certification for the career before you enter the job market EMC E20-065 Certification Exam Practice Test is self-identification and the process of career improvement. There has always been a debate about how important EMCDS certification really are. EMCDS Certification provide the…