Shifting the Focus from Grades to Learning

Shifting the Focus from Grades to Learning

Back to School! 5 Mistakes Principals Should Avoid

• Published on August 11, 2016…

You Know You Want Some Co-Teaching Chat!

BY ELIZABETH STEIN · 08/15/2016

There exists a great opportunity to teach the adults and the children why to think carefully about their digital footprints. The hacking of emails and information about our elected officials is a reminder that the digital environment is never fully private. Schools are the place for children to learn this. It is not a time to tighten up and restrict access. It is a time to educate ... students, teachers, leaders and parents.  …

Reflecting on and writing often about the importance of leading safe, nurturing, encouraging, inclusive learning environments, the focus is on the organization as a whole.  We talk about the role of the staff and teachers, and how to help students to flourish as they maintain values and actions that support such an environment.  A 2014 Brookings Institute Study reported that…

Anyone who studies American public education will come to a fork in the road: either the people in charge are incompetent or they are subversive.

 Almost 8 years ago I bit the bullet. I decided that, even if you're talking about inmates in an asylum or people on heavy drugs, there is no way that so much mayhem and malfeasance could result from incompetence.…

Opinion: Districts need to plan to prevent teacher shortages

In this political environment, with policy pushed into the background while insults and name-calling move to the foreground, the likelihood of ripple into our world becomes greater. The problem is our society is viewing a different kind of news cycle. Added to the wars, acts of terror, mass shootings, questions about police behavior with African Americans, we are seeing an election cycle like none in recent memory.  Name-calling is regular and honesty is being redefined before our…

K-12 Schools Need a Makeover

01/24/2016
PROBLEM SOLVED With Ruth Herman Wells M.S
Ruth Herman Wells M.S

SouthEast Educational…

We have long written about our shared belief that schools are built upon a foundation designed to support an educational system whose century has past. Our own research during the writing of The STEM Shift reinforced our belief.  Schools are spinning as they push and pull with new ideas, demands, and methods but they are not making forward motion that is future inspired. The structure of schools, the organization of the school day, the manner in which students are…