Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfing
The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros gives great encouragement and advice to teachers seeking to improve continuously in the face of budget restrictions, policies that don’t make sense, and curricula that are way too static for a constantly changing world. This would be a great book to give to every teacher in your school.
The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros
August 9th, 2016Tips for Teachers Looking for Summer Jobs by Joyce Wilson
July 24th, 2016Tips for Teachers Looking for Summer Jobs by Joyce Wilson helps teachers gain summer work that can help with family finances and promote their teaching efforts. While this advice won’t help this summer, it should help teachers to start planning for next year. Share with teachers you know.
Read entire post...Olympic Golf Fields Are Hardly Olympic: Interesting Data Analysis
July 9th, 2016
I just looked up the fields for the Olympics and they are both stinkers due to the STUPIDsystem to select players. Here is a run down of world rankings for the 60 player men’s and woman’s fields that are the weakest you are likely to ever see. I hope you find this piece interesting in it’s own right, but it also an example of how one might analyze a particular data set.
Sweden’s Cashless Economy: Pros & Cons – Great Student Debate Topic
July 7th, 2016The Björn Ultimatum: Two Men Fight Over Sweden’s Move to a Cashless Economy by Mallory Pickett covers both sides of the battle to get rid of cash altogether. This would be a good article for students to read and debate. As a Swedish-American who visits Swedish relatives regularly, I’ve seen a number of innovations like […]
Read entire post...Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why by Paul Tough
June 27th, 2016
Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why by Paul Tough uses abundant research to show how the environments of poor children puts them at a great disadvantage when the start school, and how schools often makes things worse thanks to inappropriate pedagogy. There as also a lot of great advice regarding how to fight this pernicious cycle. See that any leader and policy maker you know gets this excellent book.
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