Each year in our school we use a week of NCAA March Madness to promote colleges. For several years now, during this week, teachers are allowed to wear jeans (always a plus for climate!) while wearing college shirts and take time in their classroom to promote college. This could be talking about wear they went … [Read more…]
Never in my life did I ever aspire to be a principal…until I became one! My first year out of the classroom was to serve as an Instructional Coach. I was so fortunate to have been given the opportunity and training to do so, by a principal who saw stengths in me that I didn’t … [Read more…]
This is one of several posts that I have to reflect on and share my learning from the sessions I attended at the ASCD #Empower17 conference. I have never heard of or read any Jeffrey Benson‘s books, but he is now one of my favorite presenters. Why? He was a combination of Doc Brown (Back to … [Read more…]
This is one of several posts that I have to reflect on and share my learning from the sessions I attended at the ASCD #Empower17 conference. One of the sessions that I attended at ASCD #empower17 wasn’t your typical session, because it was a movie screening! The authors of the book Turning High Poverty Schools … [Read more…]