Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingThis book by Malcolm Gladwell is still a best seller after 260 weeks. This summary explains how connectors, mavens, and salemen impact all phases of our lives and how these concepts can be used by educators. Also included are other interesting stories including how New York City reduced crime in the 1990’s. Click here to […]
Read entire post...The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
October 6th, 2009Is Obama Bush III on Education?
September 29th, 2009Nick Anderson of the Washington Post reports on September 25, 2009 that Teacher Unions are not happy with what they are seeing from the Obama administration as they approach the reauthorization of NCLB. “It looks like the only strategies they have are charter schools and measurement,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of […]
Read entire post...What if colleges had to meet NCLB standards
September 11th, 2009Its a good thing that many public universities don’t have to worry about graduation rates like high schools do. A recent study of 68 colleges show many have graduation rates below 50%. The best schools have the highest rates and poor student don’t do as well. Freshmen are less expensive to educate than seniors due […]
Read entire post...Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division – Anthony Muhammed
September 3rd, 2009This book by Anthony Muhammad gives administrators advice on how to deal with four types of teachers who he broadly defines as believers, fundamentalists, survivors, and tweeners. This book came to my attention as it was assigned as summer reading for all of the teachers and administrators in the Binghamton City School District (New York) […]
Read entire post...Hello world!
August 31st, 2009Welcome to my blog. The purpose of the blog is to provide free content that will serve as bite-sized staff development material for practicing school administrators, people who wish to be administrators some day, teachers, and parents. I also hope that it will generate some discussion that we can all share to help with your […]
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