When I was a teacher at and elementary school, all ten of us – one teacher for each home room (K-8), and yours truly who taught 7th and 8th grade science and health, 8th grade algebra, and instrumental music – had recess duty once a week, every other week. Kids played. It was not structured….
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Continuous Improvement ≠ Transformational Innovation (or, 5 Things We Must Do To Improve Education) – Kids Need to Play a Musical Instrument: Part 2 of 5
Recently, I met a gentleman who told me he played in a band for 19 years, and made 3 records. He loves music, and is grateful to his dad for “making” him learn a musical instrument – even though when he was young, he hated it…especially when his friends were outside playing baseball and street…
Continuous Improvement ≠ Transformational Innovation (or, 5 Things We Must Do To Improve Education) – Kids Need to Sing: Part 1 of 5
I’m sure you’ve heard the argument that students in faith-based schools academically outperform public school students because of small class sizes. Let’s debunk that myth here and now by going back to 1965…almost 50 years ago. The 1st grade at St. Albert the Great School in Baldwin Boro (a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA) had approximately…
Continuous Improvement ≠ Transformational Innovation (or, 5 Things We Must Do To Improve Education) – Introduction
I’ve succeed in finding something that does not exist in some computer coding languages – the “does not equal” sign. ≠ needs to be found somewhere, then pasted in as a character. There are suggestions in several coding forums regarding what can be used, such as -=, which is the negation of the equal sign, !=…
Why Edu-Cat-Ion
Why do we need another Web site that talks about education? And why is education spelled that way? Author Simon Sinek in his 2009 book, “Start With Why,” says that “why” is a better place to start than “what.” So rather than speak to “what” this site is about, it’s more important to share why…
Look Beyond the Usual Suspects
One of my favorite movies is The Usual Suspects. Certainly not because of the violence in the film, but because of the twist that I didn’t see coming the first time I saw it. One of the gleanings I took away from that experience (since everything you experience is a learning experience whether you think…
Uncertain: The Future of Work
About 30 or so years ago, there was a crisis in education: a shortage of science and math teachers in our nation. As a young father at the time, working as a program director for an NPR affiliate station, it resonated with me. A couple of years before that, I left my position as a…
Education Transformation Begins With One’s Mindset Transformation
During the first 3 weeks of October, articles from other sources will be featured to help to form the mindsets necessary to embrace the changes occurring in education. The first article comes from Thrive Global (www.thriveglobal.com) and speaks to the two mental shifts that are necessary every highly successful person makes: https://community.thriveglobal.com/the-2-mental-shifts-highly-successful-people-make/ I would…
Nothing is Real Unless It Is Experienced
Poet John Keats was born on Halloween (before it was Halloween) in 1795 and died February 23, 1821 at the age of 25. This young man penned some of the most beloved works of those who study literature, including “A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)” which starts with the famous line, “A thing of beauty…
Stop Crushing the Spirits of Young Teachers – Part 2
“Teacher quality and engagement matters more to student achievement than any other aspect of a school.” This insight was published by Rand Education (Rand.org/education/projects/measuring-teacher-effectiveness/teachers-matter.html), and quoted by: Scott Barron on SchoolGrowth.com The Center for Public Education’s statement on teacher quality and student achievement; A text published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)…
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