President Elect Biden is currently searching for new staff for his department of education: “Biden Names Education Transition Team: This week, President-elect Joe Biden named his 20-person education transition team. The team will be led by Linda Darling-Hammond, who is the first Black … Continued
What will happen next for education? With a new president, what will our divided government be able to accomplish? The K-12 workforce has been hoping for lots of improvements and perhaps they will see some of them. The Biden agenda … Continued
We all coach each other to not yell at the kids. We know that sending them large waves of emotion throws them off as much as it throws us off. And we all know that when we are tired we … Continued
I was just part of a zoom seminar presented by The National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD), a network of “national civil rights organizations, university-based research centers, and state and local coalitions working to expand support for government policies that promote school … Continued
Today is a short one. What if school reform, or school innovation or even school improvement was centered around successful interventions that valued the difference between students? What if our current structure demands too much standardization of curriculum and tests? … Continued
Many of us continue to think of learning as reading and remembering. To some extent this is part of a strong foundation for learning. To some extent this idea describes a simple process. And to some extend, it seems easy … Continued
Back in June, the Pandemic was causing concerns that students were suffering from the effects of online learning. “A separate analysis of 800,000 students from researchers at Brown and Harvard looked at how Zearn, an online math program, was used both before … Continued
When students look at me for help, I try to smile while I try not to help them. In our business of schooling, as instructional leaders, we are always trying to guide the learning. By we I mean me—and others … Continued
Years ago the emergence of the information available on the internet seemed like a big gift to intellectual development. Suddenly in response to any inquiry, generated in under a second, were millions of results. All you had to do is … Continued
In the New York Times last Sunday, Michael Sandel, a government professor at Harvard University, wrote an article entitled “The Consequences of the Diploma Divide” (September 6, 2020, NYT Sunday Review). His argument is that instead of getting more people … Continued