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How has molting helped you change?
Everything I learned about change, I learned from a lobster. It takes seven years for a lobster to reach legal size. In order for it to grow it must shed its shell then re-form another. During this molting it is … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, change, development, education, knowledge, lobster, moving, teacher
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How can we bank Creativity?
I was once told that time is the currency of education. I believe this to be true. We need time to teach our students, to allow them to reach goals, and be creative in their approaches to learning; and this … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, administrators, conference, creativity, ed reform, experience, knowledge, learning, parent, Picasso, principal, professional development, school, teacher
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Monkey’s, Elephants, & Goats, Oh My! Politics and the Principal
I was talking with a colleague the other day, he is a middle school principal in a great district, but like many districts, they have their struggles, and often these struggles become fodder for the press and public debate. Recently … Continue reading
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Tagged administrators, education, elephant, knowledge, learning, monkey, politics, principal, school, teacher
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Academic Vigor and Meeting the Learning Needs of Middle Level Students
Dr. Robert Spear and I originally wrote this as a journal entry for the New England League of Middle Schools, and I thought I would share it here. Dr. Spear is the former Executive Director of NELMS. Middle level schools … Continue reading
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Tagged administrators, development, education, knowledge, middle, professional, professional development, Proficiency, rigor, school, teacher, vigor
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Wittgenstein and my friends…
It may be a little late for a “New Year’s” post about 2011, but I came by this article from a while back and thought it was an interesting enough read to share here. I love the philosopher Wittgenstein … Continue reading
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Redmond High School: Proficiency-based learning – making time the variable
This is a very cool article. The idea that proficiency should dictate time on task has been widely accepted in schools, but using proficiency to determine time in schools is a bit more challenging for many folks to get around. … Continue reading
