“Can you be a Rhodes Scholar and not read books? Did growing up digital produce the dumbest generation? Are screenagers multitasking, or do they have better acting working memory and better switching abilities than most?
They’re the first generation “bathed in bits,” and they’re lapping their parents in digital acquisition. The only other time we’ve see [...]
Entries Tagged as 'professional development'
Teaching the Net Generation
March 8th, 2010 3 Comments
Tags: Net Generation
Professional Learning Communities
February 19th, 2010 2 Comments
As school districts struggle to develop a culture of continuous progress, many of them have found strategies from the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) framework to be instrumental in changing school culture.
Here is a nice little article on PLC’s found in the HOPE Foundation archives on the web site.
If you haven’t surfed around the HOPE web [...]
Tags: HOPE · PLC's · PLC's Professional Learning Communities · professional development · staff development
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
Excellent Print Resources
December 30th, 2009 No Comments
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.
Check out the Failure is Not an Option second edition - one [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Failure is Not an Option · HOPE · HOPE Foundation
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
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
Testimonial on HOPE conference
November 24th, 2009 1 Comment
One of our principals from the school district where I was superintendent, recently returned from the Atlanta HOPE conference.
I used to be a principal when she was a 4th grade teacher for us and she was always a great instructional leader. I trust her judgment. She sent me this little paragraph about what the Atlanta [...]
Tags: conferences · HOPE · professional development · training
HOPE Conferences Make a Difference!!
November 20th, 2009 1 Comment
As many of you know, the HOPE Foundation provides world class conferences for educators featuring national leaders in education. Recently, my former colleagues from my time as a Superintendent of Schools returned from an exciting time in Atlanta at the latest HOPE conference.
Here is what Wendy had to say:
I have been an educator for 16 years. [...]
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