Stop Teaching Today’s Students with Yesterday’s Strategies
It’s lunch time and you’re sitting in the lounge observing a casual discussion among a few veteran teachers. As it does every so often, the conversation comes up about how much kids have changed since they started teaching and how students...
Are Accelerated Classes Full of Just The Good Kids?
We have had a lot of discussion lately about accelerated courses (we offer accelerated math and English courses in our middle school). In our district we have established a litany of data points that help us make the decision of whether or not to enroll students into...
Making Positive Contact With 900 Kids
There are two types of kids that educators will generally communicate home about. The most common: those exhibiting behavioral problems. The runner up: those demonstrating exemplary skill in the classroom or extra-curricular activities. The former is almost always...
It is all about choices.
Over the course of the last couple weeks, Nikki and I have referenced the radical change in PD we are trying this year: Passion Projects (more detail about this coming in a future post). I was browsing Twitter today and came across this tweet from Daniel Pink: 3...
Authenticity vs Accountability (or Purpose vs Policing)
Yesterday, Nikki and I were creating the form that our staff would use to share their Passion Project proposals. Halfway through our creation of the form I stopped and asked, “is this just busy work or is doing this of value to both our staff and us?”...
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