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I read this blog article, What Teaching Skills Help Build Student ‘Agency’?, by Stephen Sawchuk from the October 28, 2015 edition of Education Week. He reviews the recent study published by Harvard University as part of their Achievement Gap Initiative, The Influence of Teaching Beyond Standardized Test Scores: Engagement, Mindsets, and Agency A Study of 16,000 Sixth…
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I was reading a few of the articles in Friday’s New York Times: (1) How They Got Their Guns; and (2) How a Conservative-Led Australia Ended Mass Killings. First, it is maddening to learn about mass shooting after mass shooting in the United States and realize how helpless we are. Second, it’s maddening to…
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In my work mentoring two principals, we are reading Kim Marshall’s, Rethinking Supervision and Evaluation. There is a great deal I love about Kim Marshall’s storytelling in the book. As a former principal, he shares personal experiences about how he hatched, launched and tested his model for effective supervision and evaluation. The model is based…
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A few years ago, I wrote a post, What qualities make for an ideal school or classroom? Lots of educational authors have written on this topic because they’re intrigued by the idea of what good schools look and feel like. Is it a relative question or does it have a discrete and verifiable answer? How would…
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I am reading a book by Carol Ann Tomlinson, The Differentiated Classroom, 2nd edition. Here is an interesting quote: (she profiles four teachers) These four teachers understand the essential purpose of learning. It is not an endeavor that is marked primarily by accumulation of random data, rehearsal of disembodied skills, or checking standards off a list.…
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