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Cleaning up, growing up, waking up and showing up are Richard Rohr ‘s 4 stages for leading a Christian life. Richard Rohr explores these stages in one of his homilies and points out that most Christians are still in the “cleaning up stage.” What is the journey we each have to be on to arrive…
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I think about assessment culture in school all the time. It’s a topic I have written about before and remain stymied by how stuck we seem to be. I would offer that one reason why innovation in teaching and learning is so hard in schools, public or private, is that our views on assessment are…
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Tomorrow is Earth Day 2019. I recently read a piece about Carl Sagan in Maria Popova’s book, Figuring. She quotes a passage from Carl Sagan’s book, A Pale Blue Dot, about the picture taken from Voyager I on February 14, 1990 showing the Earth from 4 billion miles away looking back towards the Sun. Our…
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There is a great deal written about how to receive and give feedback in ways that are effective. I wonder whether most school administrative teams, school districts, state education agencies, or educational policy makers understand and use research being generated to inform their processes for creating a feedback culture in their school. I understand that…
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A short piece in Medium, Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time, written by Markham Heid illustrates the importance of “brain breaks” as a way to consolidate and deepen learning. He quotes Loren Frank, a neuroscience professor: The research on learning is extremely clear,” says Loren Frank, a professor at the Center for Integrative Neuroscience at…
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