Teachers and children celebrate the end of the school year – the last day of an academic season – as the passage of time. Step up your celebration to a victory dance in the end zone of the teaching and learning year. Celebrate the success of your work – you caused children to learn. Continue reading
Being What We Teach
Teachers always reflect what they teach. The band director plays an instrument, the shop teacher runs a lathe, the English teacher speaks in complete sentences, and the history teacher overwhelms us with facts from the past. Pandemic teaching caused us to “be” our more abstract values – problem solvers, evidence-based, collaborative, and collegial. We were exemplars of our best selves. Continue reading
Recentering Our Matters
Old Boomer educators don’t die; they just fade away. We need to retire Boomerisms with our Boomers. Continue reading
Add Student Executive Functioning Skills to Your Student Performance Box Score
An analysis of post-pandemic student learning points too easily at academic deficiencies. From the pandemic, we learned that our concept of studenthood was limited and children today have needs much greater than the 3 Rs. Continue reading
Smart Is As Smart Does
A while ago Holiday Inn Express enjoyed using “I’m not a rocket scientist, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night” as an indicator of the smart and well-informed traveler in their clientele. They seemed to say, “smart … Continue reading