Where Students are Our Students, Not Mine or Yours
These past two weeks have reminded me of something I have always known to be true in…
Why Making Meaning Matters for Student Ownership
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on September 12, 2015. This weekend I decided to make…
What I Learned From My Daughter’s First “C”
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on September 15, 2015. It’s no secret that I’m an…
What’s More Important, High Test Scores or Self-Direction?
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on August 17, 2015. The education technology discussion is fraught…
From Formative Assessment to Tracking Student Mastery: The Road to Competency-Based Instruction
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on July 16, 2015. Once upon a time, classrooms were…
Keeping the Why
Recently, I found myself at a conference sponsored by the Maine Curriculum Leaders’ Association. The purpose: to…
10 Principles to Move Your School Toward Distributive Leadership
This post originally appeared at Next Generation Learning Challenges on March 5, 2015. The most intimidating part…
Warning: Delayed Graduation Possible
This post originally appeared at the Foundation for Excellence in Education on February 23, 2015. MINIMUM GROWTH…
Never The First to Finish: Why Pace Matters
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on January 30, 2015. Remember how it felt to be…
On Perseverance in the Classroom
This post originally appeared at Students at the Center: Teaching and Learning in the Era of the…