“80% of success is having enough whys.” – Anthony Robbins If we are going to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), then we are going to need a lot of whys, and it will be up to school leaders to provide those whys. The fact is that many of our staff members will [...]
Create your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) by tapping into the collective intelligence of hundreds or even thousands of your fellow educators through Twitter and other technologies. Find out how to establish a PLN that’s made up of the right people to guide your learning and to whom you contribute your knowledge and expertise. (Read [...]
“It’s a huge transition. They come in at 14 and they leave as adults.” Ninth Grade-Our Last Chance I learned from experience that a successful ninth grade experience predicted future high school success. Conversely, I learned that when students struggled in ninth grade, they rarely graduated.
by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader Evaluation of teachers is one of the hottest topics in the world of education. The conversation ranges from how much testing should count, to finding ways of incorporating it into the pay scale. Everyone knows that what we have is not working and there is pressure to develop a [...]
While the headlines remind us of the current obsession with firing principals and teachers, some around the country have actually read the research and have come to recognize that the answer is not firing, but recruiting and retaining school leaders. They are taking a more enlightened, long-term approach to school leadership by seeking to reduce [...]
Assistant principals are difference makers. When it comes to getting things done on a day-to-day basis in a middle or high school, assistant principals play a key leadership role. Educators are great at generating plans and ideas, but we are not as good at implementing them. From my experience, both as a long-time assistant principal [...]
Blogger’s Note: At a recent meeting of NASSP’s Assistant Principal Task Force, Keith East presented each member of the Task Force with a wooden spoon. The spoon is handmade by Maxie Eades, an 85 year-old Master Craftswoman. A handmade wooden spoon is an odd gift. However, I had a sense that Keith had a story [...]
by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader Over the course of my forty-year teaching career, which included twenty-six years as a department chair, and ten as Curriculum Coordinator, I worked with a significant number of school administrators and district leaders. This is the third in a series highlighting those individuals who in my opinion were the [...]
by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader At your next social gathering, bring up the currently hot topic of teacher tenure and you most assuredly will elicit many diverse opinions and emotions. Some people are adamant that it creates and retains bad teachers. Others are equally vociferous that without it good teachers are robbed of due [...]
More than anything else, including higher pay (45%), 40,000 teachers surveyed reported that they want supportive leadership (68%). The question is, what is supportive leadership? Customer satisfaction is an important indicator of quality service, corporations put a lot of time, effort, and money into surveys that ask their customers “How did we do?” So, why [...]
RT @chendrie:Richard Ingersoll #ewa12 US teaching force is changing dramatically: ballooning numbers, more rookies, more females, more exitsRT @chendrie: Deborah Ball: It's time for America to stop talking about the teachers as people & start respecting teaching #ewa12 #edchat
