Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingImproving Your School One Week at a Time: Building the Foundation for Professional Teaching and Learning by Jeffrey Zoul (© 2006, Eye On Education: Larchmont, NY) offers a year’s worth of practical and specific advice one Friday at a time. It is the kind of book that lets a principal provide the type of leadership […]
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January 10th, 2012Finnish Lessons – What We Can Learn
December 28th, 2011Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland by Pasi Sahlberg (© 2010, Teachers College Press: New York, NY) is the story of Finland’s extraordinary reforms and one that should inform policymakers and educators around the world, most of whom are on the wrong track. Sahlberg has lived and studied these […]
Read entire post...Drumming In The New Year – Women On Drums
December 26th, 2011To follow up on my Christmas post featuring young women on guitar (still available, scroll down), I feature young female drummers for New Years who are invading another male bastion. My goal is to entertain both genders and inspire young women to drum on. Happy New Year and thanks for making DrDougGreen so popular. Click […]
Read entire post...Christmas Nuggets-Guitar Girls Get Better with Age
December 25th, 2011Thanks to all my readers for allowing DrDougGreen.Com to grow well past 100,000 hits a month. These posts are not my usual fair. They are YouTube clips of some amazing females playing guitar. It’s about time more talented ladies invade a mostly male bastion. Click title to see all Nuggets. Merry Christmas, Kwanza, & New […]
Read entire post...Over Schooled But Under Educated – Why treat adolescence as a disease.
December 16th, 2011Over Schooled but Under Educated: How the Crisis in Education is Jeopardizing our Adolescents by John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart (© 2010, Continuum: London, UK) claims that by failing to keep up with appropriate research, the current educational systems continue to treat adolescence as a problem rather than an opportunity. Anyone dealing with the age […]
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