Work Hard, Be Courageous, Celebrate Growth

Ann has talked with me about her one-word-journals for some time now.   As she finds ideas, thoughts, and revelations related to her WORD, ...

This shift { Shift #2 } has really helped us to focus on the individual needs of students, in relation to 21st Century skills.  We have foun...

Teach Less, Learn More! is the educational framework Singapore developed to meet the demands of the 21st century. This chapter, within 21s...

Ann and I have found this “Shift in Thinking” { Shift #1 } to cause us to travel down a different path, changing the course of our journey f...

Education is constantly in a mode of change.   We all know the pattern:   strategies, philosophies, ideas, etc. come and go and then the...

Last summer I took an amazing class about developing the affective domain.   We spent some time reading and discussing the work of world-ren...

Just read a powerful post on Connected Principals written by Shawn Blankenship.   In his post, he discusses what principals can do to possi...

This school year I set out with several personal growth areas:   Science, Brain-based Learning, Student Book Clubs, and Formative Assessment...

I think, believe, and feel deeply that a student's attitude directly affects their ability to learn. Negativity is a form of stress, so ...

Team teaching partnerships are something like a marriage.   You have to be patient and flexible, kind and appreciative, aware and cooperativ...