Handling Seven Interpersonal Challenges with Skill and Grace

In this article in Psychology Today, Mary Loftus says that “it is one of the operating principles of social psychology that even the most minute encounters can have large effects on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors… If there is a unifying theme to the findings, it is that the most successful encounters accommodate, even anticipate, the respondent’s point of view. That is, if we…

Have you seen the commercial on TV that offers consumers a service where contractors and companies are reviewed using a data base to give people a better chance at obtaining satisfaction with their purchase?  The thought of how this may or may not be relevant to education came to me as I considered posting a review of the work recently done on the gutters of my house.  Here I thought, wouldn’t it be useful to alert…

Professional Pathway In a More Teacher-Driven Profession...

Inspiring Others

A cure for “those days!”

By Hadley Ferguson on March 29th, 2013 …

How to increase the intelligence of your team

by Annie Murphy Paul

The Brilliant Report

anniemurphypaul.com/blog/

What makes a group intelligent? That is: what enables a team of people to effectively solve problems and produce solutions? You might think a group's IQ would be simply the average intelligence of the…

Teacher Evaluation Overkill in Ohio - What about PE Teachers?

Terry Ryan / March 27, 2013

Fordham Institute Education Gadfly

Evaluating teachers to gauge their impact on student achievement is a necessary reform. For too long school districts have been unable to identify…

In 1999, many of my colleagues and I began writing about the perils of excessive standardized testing. I guess we should have anticipated the unanticipated consequences.  If only we’d been bolder and more courageous.

Ways to Improve the College Scorecard Website

In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Amy Schnoebelen reports on critiques of the College Scorecard website (http://collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard/index.aspx),  which President Obama touted in his State of the Union address last month. While the website has been praised for providing lots of information and clear…

As New York struggles with implementing value-added measures for the purpose of teacher and principal evaluation - New York and other states continue to pull the proverbial rug out from under schools.  Governors and State Legislators could infuse millions of dollars into schools by addressing unfunded, underfunded, and unnecessary mandates.  Instead, they sit back and watch school district make drastic cuts that are detrimental to learning. 

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