New Personnel 101 leaves school boards and principals with critical decisions to make when they cannot find a fully licensed teacher that meets their employment needs. They can settle for a “good enough” adult to be a classroom teacher. They can allow “good enough” to become a permanent employee forgotten in the grind of a school year’s work. Or they can work with an EPP and hire an apprentice and collaborate to create a fully prepared and licensed teacher. Continue reading
Reflection On Instruction Begets Improved Student Learning – Give Teachers Time to Reflect
Instruction that causes all children to learn, including children needing adjusted instruction, requires time for a teacher to reflect and determine how to clarify, correct, and teach anew. Reflection plus adjusted teaching improves learning for all students. Continue reading
Woe Be Unto Those Who Do Not Understand the Alphas – Their Destiny Matters, Ours Is History
We need to consider the possibility, probability, and consequences of no American Dream. Hence, we cannot apply past generational assumptions about children to the Alphas and the world they will occupy. Woe be to those who ignore the Alphas. Continue reading
Atlas is Shrugging
When a slim majority of our electorate believes an egoist will elevate their status and cure their woes, what happens if everyone else shrugs? Continue reading
Rousseau, Come Back
The major dilemma we face in this decade will not be the loss of academic achievement and the onset of socio-emotional problems in youth. The problem will be that as children matriculate into middle and secondary education, they lose faith in the efficacy of the education adults deliver to them. Our issues today are not lack of achievement but lack of engagement. Continue reading