Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingI am now a guest blogger at Dangerously Irrelevant, which is a popular blog devoted to technology, leadership, and the future of schools. The author is Scott McLeod, L. D., Ph. D. who is a professor at Iowa State University. The post is an article that I did on the idea that districts should think […]
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May 28th, 2010Creating A New Teacher Profession – edited by Goldhaber & Hannaway
May 24th, 2010Here is a review of an Edited book by Goldhaber and Hannaway that looks at a wide variety of human resource issues in education. Everyone who does any teacher hiring, evaluation, or staff development should have this book. It is also essential for policy makers. The bottom line is that we have an outmoded system […]
Read entire post...Beyond Cut-and-Paste – Jamie McKenzie
May 13th, 2010For four decades Jamie McKenzie has been stressing the importance of engaging students in challenges that require original thought as they deal with new technology. This book takes on that challenge directly. It is designed to support teachers and leaders intent on raising a generation of thinkers capable of asking tough questions while generating good […]
Read entire post...AP: A Critical Examination of the AP Program Harvard Ed. Press
May 2nd, 2010The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program has grown significantly since the mid 1990’s as policy makers have added courses for students who are for the most part not ready. In AP: A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program, a new release from The Harvard Education Press, seventeen authors share their research. The main point […]
Read entire post...Innovation Killer: Are you a Zero-Gravity Thinker? – Cynthia Barton Rabe
March 30th, 2010In Cynthia Barton Rabe’s outstanding book, she explains how organizations of all kinds and promote Zero-Gravity Thinking in order to solve all kinds of problems. If you want the low down as to how organizations squash innovation, start with my summary then purchase the book. If you want to know how to avoid the needless […]
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