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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
Student Engagement 101
Okay, I just had to share this blog post when I read it – I think the author is right on! An this couldn’t align more with the expectations of our new standards. Enjoy What Your Rules Say About You
PLC Training: Day 2 Review
Professional Learning Communities at Work – Day 2 (this is part two of a two-day series summarizing training I attended with a team from across the district. For day 1′s recap click here) It’s really pretty simple, when you think about it. It’s all about the kids. That pretty much sums up what our representatives … Continue reading
Are You Ready for the First Day of School: Step 1
It’s almost here – that First Day of School. In fact, as I write this the first day of school for our students is less than 48 hours away – and today is open house visitation for students and their families. This is certainly an exciting time of year for all of us involved in … Continue reading
Making a Difference
Last night I was reading a book entitled Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them by John Ortberg.. In one of the chapters Ortberg relays a story that brought tears to my eyes. While not written from an education perspective, I believe there are many parallels that can be drawn from his story in … 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
The Worst Teacher You Ever Had
I’m not sure how many people use Plinky or even know what it is, but last year they had an interesting prompt. Plinky is a website offering writing prompts to help people, well, write stuff. This particular prompt was “Describe the worst teacher you ever had.” I was rather depressed and discouraged this was even … 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 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
