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I read these two articles a few months ago: (1) David Rock, Josh Davis and Beth Jones, Kill Your Performance Rating; and (2) Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Reinventing Performance Management. Both of them led me to rethink my views on models for teaching supervision and evaluation. Both articles make the case that external accountability systems do…
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In school leadership, as in the leadership of any organization, it is imperative that a leader build a strong team of emerging leaders. One way to measure whether you have been a successful leader is whether you leave behind “good leaders” when you depart. Good leaders will select, nurture, mentor and position others to lead.…
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It has been awhile since my last post. While I have not been writing much, I have been learning about interesting and relevant things that inform my understanding about school. Recently, I went with an administrative colleague to hear Michael Murphy and Carol Ann Tomlinson at an ASCD pre-conference workshop speak about leading a school…
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I have been reading a great deal about instructional strategies, differentiated instruction, and research on how the brain learns. Mind, Brain and Education is an excellent source for current research on how we learn and strategies teachers could implement to improve their instruction. As a result of some reading and thinking in preparation for workshops…
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This question, whether schools are capable of nurturing creative students, has been discussed in many articles, books, and TED Talks. Go back in time and listen to Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity? The basic premise in Sir Ken Robinson’s talk is that schools, the way they are structured and designed, “kill” the…
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