Inspiration, Imitation, and Individuality
Re-posted from my EdWeek Teacher blog “Road Trips in Education” 8/30/15. My year away from teaching high school English brought me to almost fifty California cities and towns, over ...
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Read (but don’t be) VAMboozled
If you're interested in value-added measures used in teacher evaluation, you need to read VAMboozled....
Road Trip Slide Show: High School English
This slide show accompanies a blog post (“The Limitations of Imitation“) at my EdWeek Teacher blog, Road Trips in Education. I’m indebted to the high school English teachers in the...
What is the Future of EdCamp?
Edcamp is a great model of grassroots organization and participant leadership- so what happens when larger numbers of people, organizations and institutions latch on that idea?...
‘The Mirage’ and Teacher Learning
TNTP's report, "The Mirage," suggests that we're currently wasting a lot of money in failed attempts to help teachers who mostly lack self-awareness, vision, ambition, and the capacity for improvement...
Equity and Teacher Hiring
Plenty of people are ready to tell schools and teachers what to do to solve problems in education, but pretty short on ideas for closing the equity and opportunity gaps that stack the odds against cer...
Drumming Up a Shift in Thinking
My recent vacation produced a valuable lesson about life and learning, a reminder of how hard it is to turn off expectations and simply be open to what you find. The lesson began at the moment I chang...
Ed. Dept. concedes ratings are problematic for colleges – what about K-12?
What remains to be seen is whether or not the Education Department will apply similar logic to any other decisions in their limited remaining time, or if this was an isolated incidence of common sense...
Maybe We Don’t Need School Ratings
Maybe the bigger problem in education policy is too many stakeholders who prefer to have a meaningless “A” or “D” slapped on a school, rather than understand and express the complex realities ...
Today’s Recommended Reading for Teacher Leadership
Teacher leadership in schools isn't as new as some people might think, but it's a reform unique among the others in that it has never really been taken to scale, despite evidence that it works....