7 Questions To Evaluate A Blended Learning Platform
When evaluating a blended learning platform, consider goals, devices available to students, internet bandwidth, and tech support capacity.
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Simple Tips For Teachers Communicating With Parents
Build relationships with parents at the beginning of the school year. This helps develop trust and opens the lines of communication.
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8 Ways Principals Can Show Leadership At The Beginning Of The School Year
Is My School Ready? Strategies For Principals That Lead contributed by Jen Schwanke, Principal for Dublin City Schools For a principal, the a new school year brings anticipation, excitement—and—let’s admit it—an underlying feeling of trepidation. I always look forward to this time of year, but with it comes the telltale butterflies in the stomach each…
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20 Questions That Schools Should Ask About Professional Development
You want to avoid pointless PD, & sometimes you can’t please all the people all the time, but here are 20 questions to get you started.
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7 Characteristics of Great Professional Development
What are the characteristics of great professional development for teachers? It starts with training that actually improves their teaching.
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9 Ground Rules For Great Principals
The following graphic from weareteachers.org takes a more general approach, but provides 9 clear tips–‘ground rules’–for great principals.
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How To Avoid Pointless Professional Development
Are our professional development Actions all pointing towards our Purpose and Vision? How well are they accomplishing those things?
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The Delicate Dance of Professional Development
Professional Development. We need it. You need it. Our students need us all to do it but how? And when? And about what?
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Why Teacher Staff Meetings Suck–And How To Make Them Better
Time for a staff meeting? Need an idea? Something that engages teachers? Shake things up a bit? Start the year off right?
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Boring School Staff Meeting? Here Are Some Ideas
Some Ideas To Enhance Boring School Staff Meetings For many of us, snow did this to us—pushing end-of-the-school-year proceedings until mid to late June. We’ll probably be brought back in a few times in July, at which point it’ll be time to get our 2014-2015 rosters for a new school year. That makes right now a…
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4 Tips For Leading & Learning As A Busy Principal
After becoming principals, educators can stagnate if they are not seeking to lead and learn. Making time to connect with school staff is key.
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Mandating The Posting Of Learning Targets & Other Mindless Policies
The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.
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Making Twitter A Mainstream Tool For School Improvement
Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows people to share and skim a large quantity of ideas in a short period of time.
