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Maria Ferguson wrote a piece in Phi Delta Kappan, “Keep it Simple, stupid” sometimes is too simple. She points out that over time we’ve been inundated with the notion ‘simpler is better,’ simple solutions are more likely to gain traction than complex solutions. While some problems or challenges lend themselves to simple solutions, Ferguson goes…
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I listened to Krista Tipett’s On Being program, The Evolution of Medicine. In the program, she interviews Mark Hyman, Jeff Gordon and Penny George about the transformation underway in how “functional” and “mind-body” medicine looks at the illness/wellness duality. Her interview reveals a fascinating conversation with three innovative thinkers who reframe the health and wellness…
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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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