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If we are serious about meeting the learning needs of all students, then don’t we have to know how our students learn best? This question is batted around in educational circles all the time. We discuss the need to know students’ learning styles, but how much effort and resources does a school or teacher put…
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One of the negative outcomes of our commitment to No Child Left Behind, as well as our fixation on test scores, is that physical education programs in many schools have disappeared, especially in high schools. This is true whether you are looking at public, charter or private schools. From a study completed in 2009 by the…
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Fifty educators from Atlanta, Omaha and Kansas City are engaged in learning and conversation regarding the topic of transformational coaching using Elena Aguilar’s, Art of Coaching. Our facilitator for two days, Noelle Apostol Colin, is discussing and modeling what the “art of coaching” looks like in practice. Teachers, administrators and coaches from Howard Kennedy Elementary…
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This phrase, “failure is inevitable along the path to innovation,” is something we regularly hear referenced in books, talks, and interviews with people who have experienced the connection. It is common advice shared by successful innovators with people who read or listen to them. When each one of us reflects on anything we have…
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Composing a Life, a book written by Mary Catherine Bateson, explores the artistic achievement of four of her successful friends, as well as her own life as a writer, researcher, and anthropologist. Through studying the life histories of her friends, she discovers that composing a life is possible in the midst of confusion, failures, and…
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