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Gratitude 19 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
It’s about three weeks until the start of school, and I spent much of this weekend cleaning my home office. That’s significant because I generally clean my home office in one of two situations: Life ...
Thoughts for a New Administrator: Simplify 14 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
I’m reading Up the Down Staircase right now, and far too much of it rings true than it should, especially when it comes to the arcane administrative details of the teaching life. And that brings me to...
Building Hope 13 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am
So… it has not been a great time in the School District of Philadelphia of late. Today, many of the conversations at the principal meetings were around how we were going to deal with this crisis in ou...
Thoughts for a New Administrator: Time 5 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
[I'm headed into my ninth year for working on SLA - one planning year, and this is the school's eighth year. And while there is still a ton to learn about doing this job well, I thought that I might b...
Trayvon, Creating ‘The Other’ and the Cover of the Rolling Stone 1 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
[It has taken me a while to find the mindspace to write coherently about this. I've been talking to a lot of people about this, and while I don't think my thoughts are anywhere near fully evolved on t...
Medicating Ourselves To Death 11 Jul 2013 | 11:43 am
I’m going to start this post by saying that it is really just a case of out-loud thinking. I don’t really know where this leads… I just know I’m thinking about it a lot lately, and I’m hoping that by ...
Free the Hallways 1 Jul 2013 | 08:21 pm
According to school architect and author of The Third Teacher, Trung Le, over 35% of the square footage of the average school are in use less than 5% of the day. The hallways. The reason for this is...
Why Do We Need to Know This? 1 Jul 2013 | 01:59 am
“Why Do We Need to Know This?” It is the question that many teachers hate to hear from students in their classrooms. Whether it is the format of the Shakespearean Sonnet, the Pythagorean theorem, or ...
Technology Transforms Pedagogy: ISTE Session 26 Jun 2013 | 11:56 pm
My ISTE session this year was Technology Transforms Pedagogy: Combining the Tools and the Vision. I didn’t want it to be the same as many of the workshops I have given in the past, but at the same tim...
Complex, Not Complicated 23 Jun 2013 | 09:01 am
by Hugh McLeod Hugh McLeod created the piece of art on the left – ”Strive for Complex, Not for Complicated.” It is a simple idea that is powerfully crystallizing. I was excited by it because I re...
