Leading From The HeartImage: Ghetto Curious George by the Frankfurt School made available on flickr by a creative commons license. (crossposted at leadertalk) About a week and a half ago, the night before beginning at a new school, I wrote a post called Allowing Curriculum Planning to Remain Curious. I wrote about how I needed to remain curious about … remaining curious
I have been involved in a very stimulating conversation on Durff’s blog around the issue of ethics in the classroom. Both Durff and I agree that ethical behaviour must be stressed in the classroom and modeled by teachers. I think you can tell from our comments that we are both quite passionate about this. Where … Ethics in the classroom and common ground
Image: found on the Internet Ray Tracing Competition website Found this, love it. We must reject the ideology of the “achievement gap” that absolves adults of their responsibility and implies student culpability in continued under-performance. The student achievement gap is merely the effect of a much larger and more debilitating chasm: The Educator Achievement Gap. … Just whose achievement gap is it, anyway?
Image: Balance by EisforEdmund made available on flickr with a creative commons license. I came across this little statistic today. 65% Proportion of former public school teachers who say they’re better able to balance work and life now that they’re working outside the education field. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education; National Center for Education Statistics … Teaching and work/life balance: Whatcha think?
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] I will be returning to the classroom at the end of August after a year as a special education consultant and professional development facilitator. I decided to return for a variety of reasons, the most important being that I miss the energy I pick up from daily contact with students and the … Motivation and change, values and passion: Making the connections