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Collaborative Conference on Student Achievement: Final Thoughts & Reflections
This is the fourth and final post in a series of four posts on the 2012 Collaborative Conference on Student Achievement, held this past Monday-Wednesday in Greensboro, NC. I encourage you to read summaries of Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 to get a better idea of what happened this past week in Greensboro. … Continue reading
Rigor & Relevance Trainings
Today approximately 40 people from across our district – teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, and central office personnel – received the first of two days of training in the Rigor and Relevance Framework. What is Rigor & Relevance? I’m glad you asked! First and foremost, it is not a new program for your school or a … Continue reading
A Requiem for Education
Recently I had the opportunity to attend a performance of Brahms’ German Requiem (or Ein Deutches Requiem for all you musicians). This 70+ minute piece for chorus and orchestra is my favorite large choral piece of all time. I’m going to make a connection to education, but you’ll need to read through a few paragraphs … Continue reading
PD360 & Observation360 Kick-Off Training
To say I’m excited about the training school administrators received today on our first day of Summer Management Conference is an understatement! We spent all day training on the implementation of both PD360 and Observation360 for our district. I’m not a big fan of plugging particular programs or vendors, and so sometimes I actually get … Continue reading
Defining “Student Engagement”
Cross-Posted on Tar River Educator Recently I read an interesting article from NASSP entittled “Recognizing Rigorous and Engaging Teaching and Learning”. The article made the following statement: “What would an observer expect to see in an engaging classroom? How does an administrator know when teachers and students are performing at a rigorous level? Having clear … Continue reading
School Improvement Summit: Final Thoughts and Reflections
If you haven’t had the opportunity to read the daily summary of the SIIS this past week I encourage you to read the daily summaries before you read this final reflection. They can be accessed by clicking on the following links: Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. There are a couple of key elements … Continue reading
School Improvement Innovation Summit: Day 3
Today’s post will be much shorter than yesterdays – I promise you! Today was a couple of hours shorter than yesterday, so there just aren’t many notes to share… Let’s start the day with toasted bagles and a Skype conference with presenter Heidi Hayes Jacobs on the Common Core. This keynote was done via Skye, … Continue reading
School Improvement Innovation Summit: Day 2
Wow. That’s all I can say – wow. How do I capture 11.5 hours of the SIIS into one blog post – it’s not even really possible. Today was the classic example of information overload – it’s a good thing I took notes – because after the first several sessions I was having trouble focusing … Continue reading
School Improvement Innovation Summet: Day 1
This week I’m attending the School Improvement Innovation Summit in Salt Lake City, but my reflection for the day will focus more on actually getting to the summit rather than attending it. Registration and opening reception are from 6-8pm – as I write this it is 5:00 and I’m on a plan in Denver waiting … Continue reading
Valuing People
Cross posted on Tar River Educator Blog I am going to share a pet peeve of mine, and I know it seems insignificant, but I believe it’s particularly important for leaders to think about this type of thing.. Over the past two years I have made a conscious effort to communicate face-to-face as much as … Continue reading
