7 Experiences for Teachers to Seek for a Satisfying Career
Teachers seeking a more satisfying career should seek out a variety of opportunities to learn and lead. ...
Professional Development
Learning and the Brain Conference – Presentation Slides, Links
My presentation at the Learning and the Brain Conference is titled "Capturing the Spark: Learning from Inspired Teachers and Thriving Schools." You can see the slides and links here. ...
Developing Our Understanding of Race
Teachers committed to their own learning, over the summer and beyond, should commit part of their learning to understanding and addressing issues of race and diversity....
Does Training Interfere With Learning?
Trying to improve everything at once doesn't work. What if we suspended new professional development for a year to concentrate on our own deeper learning?...
Teaching and Learning in D.C.
Today and tomorrow I'm attending the Teaching & Learning Conference in Washington, D.C. There are several ways to learn more about what's happening here if you can't join in personally....
Put the Professional in PD
What does it look like when professional development days are not only highly professional, but celebratory, and inspiring?...
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...
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....
Learning Forward Conference Wrap-Up
Better late than never, and following a tragic loss of an unsaved draft, this post will conclude my review of session at the Learning Forward Conference in Nashville. I attended Monday through Wednes...