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Collegiate Faculty Summer “Read”: Boosting Your Signal Noise Ratio
It’s not unusual for schools these days to engage their faculties in summer reads. SAIS schools are assigning books covering the gamut: Brain Rules, The Anatomy of Peace, Teach Your Children Well, To...
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A Modest Proposal
nochildhungry.org In his 2009 article “Learning from No Child Left Behind: How and Why the Nation’s Most Important but Controversial Education Law Should Be Renewed,” John Chubb stated, “Make no...
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The Mutation of Education: Anticipate the Needs of the User
Recently, a group of individuals, deeply committed to the future of education, engaged in a fascinating Twitter dialogue. The five, self-described as a headmaster, an edu-author, a dean, an...
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What Does It Mean To Love Learning?
Does your school mission seek to develop a love of learning in students? Many do. Yet so many students today profess that school actually has systematically killed their creativity, stamped out...
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Will We Ever Learn the High Cost of Ignorance?
In James Stronge’s book Effective Teachers = School Achievement: What the Research Says, he presents research findings, which emphasize the critical connection between teacher effectiveness and student...
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Practice Follows Policy
Peter Drucker in The Age of Discontinuity published in 1968 wrote, “Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of...
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A Community is More Than the Sum of its Parts
In two recent posts on his blog The Learning Pond, Grant Lichtman has undertaken a critique of the Common Core Standards as a 2-D approach to a 3-D problem. His criticism centers around the...
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Schools That Harness Chaos
When does a company usually pursue innovation? Lean or fat times? Typically, when the economy and the firm are swimming in money, the company entertains new ideas, outside voices, and growth...
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But Then What Did They Know?
“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” - Albert Einstein “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” - Robert Frost “Study hard what interests you the most in the most...
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180 Days of Inquiry
Two words resonate in discussions about the need to change our educational system: inquiry and empathy. Advocates for making learning more relevant, personal, and student-centered argue that we must...
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A Faculty Handbook that Answers the Question “How Can I Be Successful Here”
Does your faculty handbook ever answer the most important question a teacher might pose, “How can I be successful here?” Probably not. Employee handbooks serve the specific purpose of explaining the...
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Design Thinking Offers the Gift of Curiosity
In Charles Perrault’s classic tale Sleeping Beauty, seven fairies invited to the christening of the king’s newborn daughter offer her gifts: beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and the ability to play...
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Beware of Google Searches
In a recent post on his blog Dangerously Irrelevant: Technology, Leadership, and the Future of Schools, Scott McLeod noted the results of the Google search “school makes me,” commenting, “Something’s...
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Why’s This So Good?
Last night, the Georgia Department of Corrections announced that death row inmate Andrew Allen Cook had been executed. Cook was put to death for killing two college students in 1995, a crime to which...
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Some Feedback on Feedback
All effective and engaging learning experiences provide frequent and meaningful feedback. Without feedback on whether or not one is getting closer to a goal, progress is unlikely. – Unknown What...
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Will MOOCS Let Us All Play For the Ivy League?
In a New York Times op-ed last month titled “Revolution Hits the Universities,” Thomas Friedman shared his great hope in the future of global online education as the cure for world ignorance: Nothing...
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Is the Curriculum Rotten at its Core?
Educators across the nation are busy implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the most significant, overarching education reform ever undertaken by the American public school system....
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The Lesson Today: Speak Up
You’ve probably read or heard about independent school teacher Jessica Lahey’s article, “Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail,” published last month in The Atlantic. A viral sensation, it...
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If Teachers Were Paid Healthy Six Figure Salaries, Would Learning Soar?
A public charter school in New York is making that bet. Highlighted on NPR’s Market Place this Monday in a story titled “Can Money Buy Good Teachers?,” The Equity Project Charter School (TEP) pays its...
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Can Boys Still Be Boys in the American Classroom?
In a New York Times opinion article, Christina Hoff Summer, author of “The War Against Boys,” highlights a new study released this week from The Journal of Human Resources that found that boys are...
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