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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'educational leaderhsip'
Sit-N-Git vs Team Work Time and Collaboration
December 2nd, 2009 No Comments
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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. [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · assessment · conferences · education · educational leaderhsip · fun · HOPE Foundation · poverty and student achievement · professional development · school improvement · Shaping America's Future IV · teachers · training
Courageous Leadership
March 21st, 2009 No Comments
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Tags: administrators · Alan Blankstein · courageous leadership · educational leaderhsip · Leadership · school improvement · Students · teachers
What do your students want from you?
March 19th, 2009 2 Comments
In this article by Alan Blankstein, Alan outlines a few basic principals of what research says students want from their teachers!
Be prepared and organized. Even low-performing students don’t like to lose instructional time (Ferguson, 2002; Haycock, 2001). They like and need organization, as well as a high-demand/high-support environment.
Make teaching relevant. This is particularly true of students [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · education · educational leaderhsip · joy of learning · kids today · school improvement · student motivation · Students · teachers
Should your kid get a ZERO for a late assignment?
March 16th, 2009 17 Comments
Teachers in B.C. are not happy over policies put in place that do not allow teachers to give students zeroes for late work. (Click here for the news article.)
So what’s fair? How do you maintain accountability and still not punish students with a zero even though they turned in the work?
Tags: educational leaderhsip · joy of learning · Leadership · student motivation · Students · teachers
Where are the voices of the teachers?
March 9th, 2009 4 Comments
Why does so much of the discussion on teacher incentives rely on a business or corporate model?
This is one of several questions that appear in an article in the Journal of Educational Controversy. The overarching question in the article is
Tags: education · educational leaderhsip · Leadership · political influence · school improvement · Shaping America's Future IV · teachers · voices
It takes Courageous Leadership to Shape America’s Future…
February 9th, 2009 No Comments
Fourteen top Education Leaders met on February 4-5 to develop recommendations for the Obama administration to tackle America’s education crisis. Empowered by the magnitude of the education challenge, harkening the call for change from the Obama administration, and speaking directly as Congressional hearings were taking place to debate the stimulus package, the group leaned on [...]
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