6 Tips for Social Media Newbies

• Ed Week

A road trip involves taking a journey without a solid destination in mind. It is usually impromptu and includes stops for exploration, sightseeing, and sharing. Joining in a social media platform is the same type of…

A Teacher, Life Ruined by Pearson’s EdTPA…

Teachers and leaders both are expected to be masters of communication, carry the responsibility of communicating and making sure their listeners understand.  The larger the audience, the greater the possibilities for misunderstandings. Communication is complicated. Very complicated. Any time two people share a conversation there are possibilities for complete understanding and for a plethora of misunderstandings. The range of possibilities multiplies with the number of listeners. So,…

InvolvEdu: Changing the Extracurricular Landscape…

Passing the HP HPE0-J80—great advantages for the IT professionals

Understanding the nature of HPE0-J80 Delta - Architecting Multi-Site HPE Storage Solutions

The HP Delta - Architecting Multi-Site HPE Storage Solutions is a well-known HP certification exam, which is associated with  numerous promising job roles. The HP HPE0-J80 questions has designed the core areas of HP Delta - Architecting Multi-Site HPE Storage Solutions in a technical…

Leaders, the vision keepers, thinkers, and role models have an opportunity to take this tiger by the tail. Their role of enforcing the Common Core has not resulted in anything other than compliance for many.  Now, next steps are needed. For no matter who - teachers, parents, community members, even students - the school environment must remain warm and welcoming, inclusive and safe.  This Common Core business is not faring well and the students who are meant to be the beneficiaries are…

Fixing Schools Again and Again…

The Common Core: What Is The Question To Ask?

by Victor Jaccarino

Since I retired from Herricks four years ago, I have been working as an educational consultant in a variety of schools in New York State. When I meet people for the first time and they ask what I do now that I am retired, I tell them that I am working in schools to help teachers and…

The best of our leaders know how to maintain relationships and respect from both sides of the aisle even when strong differences exist.  It is an imperative if you are a community leader. How does that look in a school?  When decisions are made about whether to reduce class size, or cut an athletic activity, or terminate a popular  teacher, or close a school, there are those who will be pleased and those who will not... always.  …

Symbols are powerful things. Just try to change one that has been around for a long time. Let it be associated with athletic teams or school names and its power is even more profound. Just ask anyone whose district has lived through decisions about keeping or changing a Native American school identity like Indians, Braves, Red Skins or Chiefs.  Grades can be considered symbols. Those letters and numbers can communicate "you are smart" or "you are not smart".  Those messages may not be the…

Education: What Fareed Zakaria Missed

Dr. Jonathan T. Jefferson

The title of this opinion piece may lead one to believe that I am going to be critical of Fareed Zakaria.  Far from it.  I am an avid watcher of his television…

4 Tips to Develop Great Teacher Leaders…

The Philosophy Behind Maker Success…

Summertime is upon us, and a change of pace, bright sunlight, and a time for reflection accompanies it. Summertime is often when data is reviewed.  It invites us to look at mastery rates, failure rates and, now, maybe, a projection for teacher and principal evaluations.  We think these can be helpful only if they are part of a larger data set. There many options before us and so much information available in the extraordinary number of websites and books published that we may not know…