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The good news from the most comprehensive study ever done of gender and math performance? ‘No gender difference’ in scores among children in grades 2 through 11. [see research summary] […]
Distributed (or shared) leadership is all the rage right now in leadership circles. And rightfully so. School leaders should tap into the wealth of expertise and experience that their staffs […]
Voting for the finalists in the 140-character book review contest is now open: CLICK HERE TO VOTE! See the results to date I picked nine of my favorites. It was […]
Samuel Smiles, a Scottish author, said: We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and […]
Over at the On Our Minds @ Scholastic blog, Tyler Reed is pondering the recent announcement by the Lamar (MS) County School District that it will prohibit teachers from communicating […]
Head on over to Leading From the Heart and leave Tracy Rosen a comment on her thought-provoking post about revisiting digital literacy. Here’s the comment I just left her: n […]
Al Gore said: We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. He was talking about global climate […]
As you can see below, there were a number of great Leadership Day 2008 posts. If I missed someone, my apologies in advance. Please add your link in the comments […]
Sylvia Martinez said: n n Of course not all “olden days” teachers were drilling students. . . . When people think about the past, of course we all have had […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] n The personalization movement, enabled significantly by communication and design technologies as well as global manufacturing supply chains, is well under way… n If I […]
It’s time for a new contest! This one has nothing to do with K-12 education. Just an idea that caught my fancy that I hope will catch yours too. As […]
Live blogging Dr. Kent Peterson, U. Wisconsin-Madison, talking about school culture and climate at the West Virginia Institute for 21st Century Leadership…
It’s time to announce the ‘winner’ of the Dismaying Class Assignments Contest. With due recognition to Heather Voran‘s music notation note cards, Rick Tanski‘s (and David Keane’s) tissues for class […]
Chris Lehmann’s post last week regarding Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody and educational change was particularly thought-provoking for me. If you haven’t yet read Chris’ post or the book, move […]
I couldn’t agree with you more, Arthus. You’ve just highlighted an enormous failing of our entire system of schooling. I know that there’s been a great deal of consternation and […]
Will Richardson has yet another post that’s generated a great deal of discussion. This time it’s about the value of Twitter for conversation. Will ponders Twitter’s impact on conversations and […]
Below is an excerpt by one of my Master’s students from our online discussions about data-driven schooling practices. I liked the emphasis on mindful precedent… The last chapter [of On […]
Joel Adkins blogged … For the past few months, I have played around the edge of the new philosophers. I have been reading their blogs, listening to the podcasts, reading […]
Dean Shareski’s a sharp cookie, Carolyn Foote’s my savior, Miguel Guhlin’s a beach bum, and Doug Johnson’s a curmudgeon. David Jakes is under the bus, Cheryl Oakes likes cobbler, and […]
Hope you’ll join me tomorrow for Leadership Day 2008. Please use these tags to mark your post: leadershipday2008, schooltechleadership
[I’m late for my self-initiated Leadership Day 2008. I went to visit my mom for a few days and forgot to take my laptop…] Most of our school leaders have […]
Here are my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC. There is too much information to fit in one post so I’m breaking it up… n Communications Industry: […]
Here are my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC. There is too much information to fit in one post so I’m breaking it up… n From Digital […]
Here are the rest of my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC… Discussions Wyatt Sledge, Forth Worth (TX) ISD, told me that the district just hired a […]
Is anyone else feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of the information available here at NECC? It’s bad enough when we’re at home, but the focused concentration of all of […]
Okay, let’s think about this for next year… Famous Blogger wants to spend time at NECC conversing with / learning from friends (who might also happen to be other Famous […]
Here are my notes from Monday morning’s CTO Leadership Forum, sponsored by CoSN. The focus was on digital content and the role of the CTO (chief technology officer)… Ann McMullan, […]
Here are my notes from the NETS-A Refresh session… Dr. Don Knezek, CEO of ISTE, asked me to stand up and describe the innovative work that CASTLE and I have […]
Here are my notes from Tuesday’s Professional Development Roundtable sponsored by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). This was an EXCELLENT conversation. n Effective professional development for educators n […]
I haven’t been to NECC in years so I was really jazzed to be able to come this year to San Antonio. I came in with no agenda; my plan […]