It is easy to lose sight of core values in a crisis and its conflicting demands. Schools that connected pandemic decisions to their school ethos have an anchor that will keep them on track. Continue reading
Ethosing Through The Pandemic
When Not If I Have Your Back
Dealing with protest could/should be Admin 101 today. Accountability to others begins with integrity within. It is easy and proper to support us when we act with integrity. Continue reading
Stop Teaching and Breathe
The technology of remote education allows schools to teach children without interruption. Because we have new capacity for constant and continuous education, should students be in constant and continuous learning mode? No. Continue reading
A Principal Teacher
The historic concept of principal teacher has contemporary play in schools today. A pandemic principal’s role as teacher is only accentuated in a crisis. Continue reading
Why Is My Teacher Memorable?
In a time when we declare that something “matters”, it is equally important to declare what makes something worthy of mattering. Continue reading
At-Home Learning Rethunk
We must use what we have learned about remote education to adjust what we do next in remote education. Continue reading
The School That Will Be Cannot Be The School That Was
Children know the pandemic school they return to is not the school they left last March. Some will not return unless we shape the school that will be by what we are learning in the pandemic. Continue reading
What Did We Learn? Lesson #7: At-Home Learning Workshops
As we suspend so many realities during pandemic teaching, we also need to reconceptualize. A child’s at-home school work area is her learning workshop. Most classroom tropes do not apply. Continue reading
What Did We Learn? Lesson #6: Teachers And Classrooms Have Come A Long Way, Baby!
Remote education has moved teaching and learning from the historic classroom to the contemporary instructional studio. Concurrent teaching to in-school and at-home learners is a game changer. Continue reading
What Did We Learn? Lesson #5 – Teaching Today Requires A Rethought Teacher Prep
Changes in how we prepare teachers were growing pre-pandemic and have become more demanding within the pandemic. We can do this. Continue reading