The most significant challenge for schools and COVID 19 is not remote education while schools are closed, but how we will make each child academically whole so there is not a COVID-based educational deficit. Continue reading
Making Instruction Whole Post-COVID 19
Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID
Remote education, a new experience for most in public education, is a reality and a game changer that will modify teaching and learning for years after COVID 19. Continue reading
The Butterflies Are Loose; Help the Unexpected to Find Flight
A little chaos can be a wonderful opportunity to find an unexpected and unpredicted consideration of what education can be when it cannot be normal or usual. Be open to creativity as you stay well. Continue reading
A School Year Is Long Enough To …
A school year is the length of time to teach an annual curriculum. Instructional time is our most valuable commodity in causing all children to achieve learning competence. Discussion of school year length must be based upon educational rationales and not politics, economics or personal preferences. Learning takes time. Continue reading
Meddling, Muddling, Modeling Not Middling
Everything changes. The question is – what do we understand about change and how can we be players in the changes as they occur. Continue reading
Good Teaching and Good Schooling Grow a Whole Child
If you talk about improving student academic performance today, invariably someone will say “We need to be more concerned with the whole child than just test scores”. The comment is meant to dissolve the discussion of objective curricular performance by … Continue reading
Informed, Nuanced, Experienced Veteran Teachers Are Rain Makers
The majority of school faculty have less than five years experience in the classroom. Current practices squeeze veteran teachers into retirement for non-educational reasons. Instead, optimize your informed, nuanced veteran teachers as instructional “rain makers”. Continue reading
Prep Time: A Mismanaged Resource and Professional Bone of Contention
Improving daily schoolhouse practices that affect teacher professionalism is a strategy for improving the perception of teaching as a career and retaining veteran teachers. Continue reading
Leaders and Legacy: Work In Progress
Most school leaders are placeholders or doers. It is a choice. For doers, tenure average and change theory say time available and time necessary are not equal. If you want to make a difference, get working. Continue reading
No Bucks, No Buck Rogers. Bucks Launch Great Results
School boards that fund programs that meet only mandated and statutory requirements are achieving academic outcomes of inproficiency. Buck Rogers-like outcomes require boards to spend more bucks. It is a choice. Continue reading