Go see the movie! Very touching, very clever, complex characters, and has something useful to say about the lives of students (unlike, for example, High School Musical or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off). I did not know what was going to happen, much of the dialogue was seriously funny, and I really wanted everything to turn [...]
You know the feeling you get when something intuitively strikes you as true?
My job is about raising student achievement, and that implies for many people doing things differently. But teachers frequently resist doing things differently, which is often seen in a negative light.
I talk about this little moment a lot, but I don’t think I’ve [...]
This was New Teacher Orientation week. It’s an amazing event. I don’t know of any other district that extends the contract of its new teachers a whole week to given them a solid grounding in the organization they are joining. It represents a significant investment by the organization in its most important asset, its people.
Of [...]
