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Parent Meetings: Bypassing the Dance of Blame
By Dave Orphal
Do you dread parent meetings—or find that they don't yield the results you wish they did?
At their worst, such meetings (especially when they focus on a problem) are packed with defensiveness, frustration, guilt, and fear for parents, teachers, and students. All parties want to "get it over with." But by sharpening your facilitation skills, you can keep a parent meeting from degenerating…
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Digital Classrooms: Is The Investment Paying Off?
Eric Savitz, Forbes Staff
Guest post written by Chuck Dietrich
Chuck Dietrich is CEO of SlideRocket.…
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Top 10 questions to ask yourself in 2012
by Justin Tarte
I firmly believe in self-reflection as a means toward growth and development. As such, we all would benefit from an intense session of self-reflection of the first half of the 2011-2012 school year. Additionally, through self-reflection we will better understand who we are as educators, as well as how our actions are aligning with our beliefs. Regardless of your position or role in education, here are my…
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NY Times Opinion
The Head Start program, which prepares disadvantaged 3- and 4-year-olds for school, has served nearly 30 million children since it was created in 1965. While there is little doubt that the federal program is critically important for these children and their parents, quality varies widely among programs.
Over the years, Congress has tried to strengthen oversight and improve the $8 billion…
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This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York…
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Robert Clagett is a former dean of admissions at Middlebury College and former senior…
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YouTube for Schools - A Leadership Embarrassment Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:36 AM PST The… |
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The year 2011 was monumental in education — monumentally good or monumentally bad, depending on your view.
School reformers who believe in using business principles to run public schools had a banner year. More…
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Five Books That Have Influenced My Teaching
Edutopia
It's the holiday season, which means, once the eating and entertaining is over, many of us will have some free time on our hands. If you want to spend some of that time snuggling up with a great book, here are some books that I have read (or re-read) in the past year or so that have influenced my teaching. Not all of them…
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Some days when I drive into school in the mornings I go a different way. It takes a bit longer and my alternate route selection is met by a question from my 3rd grade daughter: "Dad, why are you going this way?" My response is always the same: "I just wanted to do something different, and it's good for…
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A couple years ago, I sat in on a "Technology in the Classroom" course. We spent the early part of the…
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Dec. 19, 2011, 1:27 p.m.
When asked to identify the qualities that lead to success in…
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Update 12/12:
QUIZ: Take part of the test that the local school board member took in the story below: …
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A guest post on The Answer Sheet this month about a school…
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