We are pleased to announce that the newly renovated Doubletree Resort will be the site for the Courageous Leadership for School Success Institute in the always beautiful Orlando, Florida on December 2-4, 2009.
HOPE’s renowned researchers and educators for this event include:
Jay McTighe, Author of the Understanding by Design series and former Director of the Maryland [...]
Tags: HOPE · PD · professional development
A recent research article seems to indicate that when it comes to teacher retention, a good principal is worth more than more pay, and other extrensic rewards, so say some Georgia State researchers.
There is an online article about it here.
Tags: principals · teacher retention
Over at The Stock Mark Report, I repeat the question found in a recent online article:
Why is it that new teachers are technologically savvy yet by and large do not integrate technology into their instruction?
Tags: teachers · technology
As I read Scott McLeod’s comments about technology mentoring on his latest blog post, my thoughts went to some future research we are planning on a topic very similar. Here is one quote Scott picked out from the article he was referring to:
One article that really stood out in the technology leadership area was “Teacher to [...]
Tags: instructional coaches · mentoring · mentors
With budgets the way they are these days, the trend of using paraprofessionals in the classroom has increased considerably. Special education is often the area where we see the biggest use of paraprofessionals.
Over at The Stock Mark Report, I linked to a blog article describing a new “co-teaching” program for undergraduate education majors. Instead of [...]
Tags: paraprofessionals · student teachers
Over at Bridging Differences, Deborah Meier and Dianae Ravitch had this to say:
Is any charter school better than any public school? As we learned from the Stanford CREDO study of charters a few months ago, only 17 percent of charter schools are superior to comparable public schools; the rest were either no better or worse. [...]
Tags: Deborah Meier · Diane Ravitch
I am blogging live from my graduate class on Saturday. I asked the students (30 of them) if they have ever had a year when their principal failed to observe them or evaluated them when they were supposed to. I couldn’t believe it when 13 of them said, “yes.”
Is this your experience? Has this ever [...]
Tags: administrators · evaluation · teacher observations
I hope your Labor Day was relaxing or exciting - whichever one you needed the most!!!! We are back in the saddle again here.
I always like what Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant has to say.
In one of his latest posts he reviews one of the current books out that reviews 1 - 1 laptop initiatives.
In [...]
Tags: computers · laptops · students. 1 - 1 initiatives · teachers · technology
I’ll never forget two teacher heroes that made a difference in my career. I was fresh out of college and assigned to a third grade classroom in a working class neighborhood outside of Dayton, Ohio. My two new colleagues were Nancy Kinnison and Vivian Ekberg. Nancy and Vivian were veteran teachers with a strong background [...]
Tags: heroes · Students · teachers · teachers that make a difference
Teacher Hero story submitted by Wendy Young
I was fresh out of graduate school and landed a position as a school counselor/social worker for an alternative education program in Holt, Michigan. Susie Gallagher was one of the teachers.
Her love and kindness for her students knew no bounds. More than anything, she believed in her students…each and [...]
