This link has some excellent print resources from the HOPE Foundation. You will find some excellent books here that provide support for all educators.
Disclosure: I wrote one of the chapters for Volume 6 in the Soul of Educational Leadership series at the invitation of Alan Blankstein.
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Entries from December 30th, 2009
Excellent Print Resources
December 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Failure is Not an Option · HOPE · HOPE Foundation
Unusual Christmas Gifts from Students
December 20th, 2009 1 Comment
I was thinking recently about the close emotional bonds that develop between students, parents and teachers. The hours of hard work together through good experiences and difficult can create a real closeness.
I miss that. Teaching now at the graduate level, I only see my students face-to-face for three weekends for a 3 credit hour course. [...]
Tags: gifts for teachers
Failure is Not an Option: 6 Principles for Making Student Success the Only Option
December 14th, 2009 No Comments
This is an excerpt from the upcoming release of Failure Is Not an Option® 6 Principles for Making Student Success the Only Option, by Alan Blankstein. To pre-order a copy visit the HOPE store online.
Having spent four years as a successful elementary principal in the inner city, I was excited about being assigned principal of [...]
Tags: Carefree AZ · HOPE · professional development
Making the most of the tests that won’t go away!
December 8th, 2009 No Comments
ASCD has a nice little series going called “Multiple Measures.” Here is a quote from one article:
Asked to name the biggest obstacle their school is facing this year, 41 percent of responding educators in a recent informal ASCD SmartBrief poll picked “pressure on students and teachers to improve test results.” The general public has a [...]
Tags: national standards · national tests · standardized testing · testing
Digital Divide: Not just a generational issue
December 7th, 2009 No Comments
The Washington Post put up this article pointing out that the digital divide is not just a generational divide, it can also be a poverty divide.
As more and more schools use technology and ask students to do their assignments using internet resources, the Post points out that not every student is able to participate depending on [...]
Tags: digital divide
Community input on school issues: Are we just too busy?
December 5th, 2009 1 Comment
I found this brief news article on a community forum from one of Wyoming’s larger school districts (Large is a relative term in Wyoming! I did a keynote address on technology and social media in education to a group of superintendents and one superintendent in the room had twice as many students in his district [...]
Tags: communication · community forums · community input · school politics
Sit-N-Git vs Team Work Time and Collaboration
December 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Have you ever gone to a conference and sat through 3 days of fantastic speakers and break-out sessions that gave you tremendous ideas, only to return to work the next week buried under a mound of emails and work projects?
A week later you wonder where all those great ideas went?
The HOPE Foundation has a cure [...]
Tags: Carefree AZ · conferences · educational leaderhsip · HOPE
Stimulus money in education
December 1st, 2009 2 Comments
Frequent readers here know that I typically blog about schools, technology, pedagogy and other school related topics. I haven’t talked as much about the political forces that drive our business.
However, I came across this short piece about the stimulus package and some of the issues it creates for schools.
One interesting phrase is a reference to [...]
Tags: funding · grants · stimulus dollars
