To me, AI is a little bit like Taylor Swift's Eras Tour: It's everywhere. It's all the time. There is probably something good there, but honestly, I'm just tired of hearing about it. Yet, here we are. It's a brave new world, and it would appear that AI is here to stay. So what now? … Continue reading Canary in the Coal Mine: Promise and Peril in the Era of AI.
The ONE Shift that Changes EVERYTHING for School Leaders.
Schools and districts are always on the hunt for anything that will help them improve student proficiency, increase test scores and close the achievement gap. While schools everywhere pour over data in search of instructional shifts and intervention efforts that may move the needle, our schools continue to struggle. At best we see incremental change … Continue reading The ONE Shift that Changes EVERYTHING for School Leaders.
Diagnosing the Problem: Understanding Common Student Behaviors and Changing the Game
Most schools in America are at (or near) the midway point of the school year. As such, it tends often to be a difficult time for motivation - both for kids and teachers. We are far enough into the school year to be sufficiently exhausted, yet too far away from the end of the year … Continue reading Diagnosing the Problem: Understanding Common Student Behaviors and Changing the Game
Why Schools Don’t Innovate, and What Leaders Can Do To Change It.
If you've spent any time in education over the past few years, you've likely sat through a keynote speaker at a conference or a breakout session on a PD day where someone shared an image of a classroom from 100 years ago and a classroom today. Maybe you saw a picture that looked like this: … Continue reading Why Schools Don’t Innovate, and What Leaders Can Do To Change It.
How I Stopped Caring About What Students Learn
Ever since I can remember, school has been about WHAT students will learn. As educators we meticulously pour over content standards and frameworks, agonize over test scores, and implore students to memorize content. We believe what we have learned ourselves - namely that what is in the textbook and on the test, is what students … Continue reading How I Stopped Caring About What Students Learn
One Thing Administrators Can Do to Help Drive Innovation
As a school leader our days can be flooded with a variety of things that demand our attention - parent concerns, student discipline, budgeting, meetings, phone calls, emails, and the list goes on. With all of these competing needs, its no wonder that topics like "productivity" and "efficiency" are prominent in most leaders' reading lists. … Continue reading One Thing Administrators Can Do to Help Drive Innovation
Deconstructing Dragsters: What we NEED to want for Students
I remember driving past the Los Angeles Fairplex in Pomona, California when I was a kid and hearing the roar of dragsters racing at the speedway. It was hard to imagine that something could go that fast, or be that loud. I would sit in the backseat of our Volkswagen Vanagon - driving at a … Continue reading Deconstructing Dragsters: What we NEED to want for Students
Thoughts on Education: What I believe about what we do.
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