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In the October 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review, Anita Elberse interviewed Sir Alex Ferguson, the famous and accomplished coach and manager of Manchester United, the English football (soccer) club considered by many to be one of the most successful sport’s franchises in the world. Her interview, Ferguson’s Formula, covers Sir Ferguson’s eight principles or…
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The new edition of Educational Leadership, produced by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), is devoted to the question: How do we help our students achieve mastery in their learning? Getting Students to Mastery is an excellent compilation of articles written by a group of compelling educators, thinkers and writers. I want to focus…
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Eight groups of diverse faculty representing all subject areas had the task of coming up with a draft assessment philosophy statement for a middle school of 500 students. They started out with a chalk talk centered on the question: If impacting student learning is our shared goal, what assessment philosophy and practice lead us to…
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Peter Doolittle’s TED Talk entitled, How your working memory makes sense of the world, has some important takeaways for classroom teachers. Here are some of the ideas I learned from his work on working memory. Working memory has four components Store some immediate experiences Store some knowledge Retrieves information from long-term memory Mixes and processes…
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In schools, we are continually engaged in conversations about how to integrate technology into our schools’ curricula. Many schools invest heavily in new technology platforms, hardware, and software. If we intend to spend money wisely, we should be prepared to search for answers to these questions: What is the school’s “scope and sequence” describing what…
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