This post was inspired by this passage from Teachers Should be Seen and not Heard by Anthony Mullen in EdWeek, Jan. 7, 2010.
“What do you think?” the senator asked….
…”I’m thinking about the current health care debate, “I said. “And I am wondering if I will be asked to sit on a national committee charged with [...]
A norm that I aspire to, however difficult it can be at times is this one:
Seek to understand before being understood.
I just read a story about an administrator who practices this norm.
From Karen S. about a Kindergarten student in trouble in Talking Him Off the Ledge at Talkworthy:
“In a few minutes, he got the idea [...]
Came across this quote on my iGoogle page today:
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
– Peter Drucker
I’m reading this in terms of classroom leadership. And in light of the recent conversations about teaching and teachers that have been erupting across the blogosphere. (Read my last few posts to get [...]
The more I think about recent conversations around teaching – about why some people leave, and others don’t, about why some choose it over more lucrative or socially respected professions (in some circles) – the more this phrase spins in my head:
The quality of teaching is not strained
Of course, that was stolen from Portia’s famous [...]
Please, Administrators of Canada (and probably the US and Australia, and South Korea, and New Zealand, and Morocco, and…), please stop jumping headfirst into change initiatives and expect your teachers to jump on with you as if they had been there from the start.
Do you know that some of the least effective PD (wish [...]
I work in an alternative school. Actually, it’s an alternative program within a large school. We have a closed off area of the building with a separate entrance and run by a slightly different schedule – we don’t hear the bells and are just fine with that!
I am completing my first year here and am [...]
…do what feels right.
My practice distilled into one sentence, a sweet mélange of head and heart.
This past week it’s been repeating like a mantra behind all of the activity – know your stuff, do what feels right.
Stuff, of course, bears a lot of weight. Stuff can consist of curriculum, management, theory, school culture, student [...]
Feeling a bit like this today. There are times when I feel confident, that I understand a situation, and then there are times when something happens that makes me realize what I understood was not really true at all. Antarctica goes North.
The rest of this post has been edited, on the advice of two [...]
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