Making Teamwork Meaningful in a PLC at Work
So it's a pretty big day in Radical Nation. Solution Tree finished the cover design for my fourth book, Making Teamwork Meaningful: Leading Progress Driven Collaboration in a PLC at Work -- which I...
View ArticleRead This: McDonalds Enters The Age of Transparency
Let’s start with a simple truth: The waistlines of the average American are spreading at an alarming rate. As things currently stand, 1 out of every 3 US adults are obese -- and at the rate we're...
View ArticleAre Current #edpolicies Turning Schools into "Brainpower Wastelands"?
Quick question: How many times have you heard a politician claim that "schools just need to learn to do more with less" in the past few years?Bajillions, right? The simple truth is that most...
View ArticleQuick Review: Net Smart - How to Thrive Online
As a guy who reads a TON -- and spends a TON of time annotating and highlighting my way through everything that I read -- few books have caught my attention as quickly as Net Smart by Howard Rheingold,...
View ArticleHow Gritty Are Today's Learners? [SLIDE]
Poking through my RSS feed reader last weekend, I stumbled across an article on the Mindshift blog that got me thinking about the role that grit -- the ability to persevere even in the face of...
View ArticleShameless Self-Promotion in Education's Social Media Spaces
Poking through my feed reader last weekend, I stumbled across a provocative Chris Wejr bit questioning whether or not social spaces were becoming nothing more than online popularity contests where...
View ArticleConstantly Fighting the Good Idea Fairy [SLIDE]
One of the books I just finished working my way through was No Easy Day, the firsthand account of the killing of Osama Bin Laden written by Navy Seal Matt Bissonnette under the pseudonym Mark Owen. As...
View ArticleThree Professional Reads That are Worth Your Time
Let's start with a simple truth: The best school leaders -- whether they are classroom teachers, principals, or district professional development providers -- should ALWAYS be reading simply because...
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Are YOU Teaching Kids about Attentional Blink? [SLIDE]--
I don't have a ton of time to write tonight -- I'm busy preparing for a webinar on Literacy and Blogging for the Alaska Staff Development Network -- but I wanted to share a concept that I picked up...
View ArticleAre Grades Utterly Useless?
One of my all-time favorite assertions about grading in schools comes from Grant Wiggins. He writes:"The most ubiquitous form of evaluation, grading, is so much a part of the school landscape that we...
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