The HOPE Foundation (Harnessing Optimism and Potential through Education) and The School Improvement Network (SINET) today announced The Courageous Leaders Network committed to building a professional community of educators that examine and develop best practices to improve achievement for all school students. Using SINET’s industry leading PD 360 platform, The Courageous Leaders Network will facilitate [...]
Entries from January 27th, 2010
The New Courageous Leaders Network
January 27th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Failure is Not an Option · HOPE Foundation · professional development
Study links economic improvements to test scores
January 25th, 2010 No Comments
Here is an interesting one for you.
A new study showing a link between one international test score and improvements to a nation’s GDP.
For the United States, the research suggests, modest gains in student achievement as measured by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country’s gross domestic product by tens of trillions of dollars over [...]
Tags: accountability · international tests
What does YOUR principal do that exemplifies instructional leadership? Or not?
January 16th, 2010 18 Comments
In a few weeks I will have my first class with a fairly new group of students working on their school administration endorsements.
It got me thinking about instructional leadership? What is it? What is it NOT? What do you WISH they would do?
So let’s hear it from a few of you. What does YOUR principal [...]
Tags: instructional leadership · leadership for instruction · principals · school leaders
HOPE Blog makes the list of 100 essential blog posts for the first year teacher!
January 13th, 2010 No Comments
Our blog post titled “Are you trained or educated?” make the list of the top 100 essential blog posts for the first year teacher.
Check it out here.
Tags: blog posts · education · training
Twitter and Schools
January 6th, 2010 No Comments
I was recently contacted by a few reporters around the country who are doing news articles on school administrators who are beginning to see some applications for the newer social media tools. As some of our readers know this is one of the topics of interest to me that I have written about before. In [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · blogging · blogs · HOPE · social media · twitter
Reading aloud to students of all ages
January 5th, 2010 1 Comment
Education Week has a nice article on reading aloud to students. I fear the emphasis on standardized testing has resulted in many teachers cutting back on the time spent reading aloud to them.
Even when I taught 6th grade the highlight of our day was often reading to the students. We read many books throughout the [...]
Tags: reading · reading aloud
Over Parenting and Fear Parenting
January 1st, 2010 No Comments
As kid, I remember riding my bike for hours all over town. My mother knew I was bike riding but probably had no clue where I was or what I was doing.
I never felt unsafe. I never felt in danger. We explored. We played games together. We fought. We made up. We argued. We carried [...]
Tags: fear parenting · Gever Tulley · over parenting · parenting
