I listened to Lisa Parisi and Maria Knee and Matthew Tabor discussing the public/private life of educators on the EdTechTalk weekly show podcast #19. The discussion revolved around what is a reasonable expectation for teacher deportment when they are away from their jobs and, given the expansion of education online and just the nature of access to information,…
My current reading selection is Transforming Schools by Allison Zmuda, Robert Kuklis, Everett Kline. This has been an interesting read and there are many things I’m mulling over. Today, in the mail, I received my monthly copy of Educational Leadership. Guess what the topic is for the month? Giving Students Ownership of their Learning! Well, if that…
As I read through Transforming Schools by Allison, Zmuda, Robert Kuklis and Everett Kline, my thoughts about school transformation are held by the idea that “A competent system serves the end of enhanced achievement for all students.” The book goes on to describe how this can be achieved through systems thinking, collegiality, information-driven reality and…
Steve Dembo in his thirty days of blogging suggest that we say thanks to those people who have inspired us and helped us. As I read this I was immediately struck that this could turn into a long list as I have many people to thank for their help and encouragement over the past few…
Steve Dembo, over at Teach42, has challenged other bloggers to the 30 days of blogging for the month of November. Since I just ran across this in my RSS reader, I figure I can still get in on it and maybe just add 2 days at the end. What do you think, Steve? My biggest…
This year I am again in the classroom teaching classes 25% of the time. I was very lucky last semester as I had been able to arrange not to teach. It allowed me to actually do some things more thoroughly as an administrator. It gave me a chance to be more involved, as the education…
As an administrator, one of my main roles is to be an educational leader in the school. Some days I’m not sure what exactly that means. In fact, over the past few weeks, I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing in this position and could have just as easily called this “Is it okay to…
It’s 1 AM and I just finished going to our school to deal with some kids from town who were bothering the team that is staying at our school overnight. They traveled a long way in order to play a preseason football game with us. What should have been a non-event ended up with me…
Being a school leader comes in many different forms but the most recognizable is the school administrator. This is the person that the community, teachers and students see as being the school leader, in some way or another. Tonight on Plurk, there was a good discussion about whether a principal needs to have teaching experience,…
Well, my last post has created some good discussion, I always like discussion. One thing that seemed to generate some good discussion revolved around listening to students. As mrsdurff commented “Producing future workers in the economies of our countries who are able to think critically is the point. This cannot be accomplished without the use…