Kindergarten Foreshadows Success in Life Kindergarten sets you up for all that lies ahead in school and in life. It’s where you should: – Develop the foundational skills for learning;– Build your social and collaborative skills;– Learn to take ownership of your actions and learning; and– Feel good about yourself, building confidence and pride. We […]
The Student Achievement – Teacher Professional Learning Connection There’s a domino game getting set up in schools today: Through the years, the research points to high-quality teachers as the most influential aspect of student achievement. If schools continue to lose high-quality teachers, hire less-than-qualified teachers, and fail to retain them, what hope is there for […]
The Emergence of Choice in Our Society The year is 1950. You probably shop at one local grocery store. You have your hair cut at the local hair salon. If you are fortunate enough to own a television, you might be able to access three network stations. The point is, people did not have the […]
If you want students who learn at high levels, can apply that learning, and retain that learning for the long term, build learning environments that move students from engagement to empowerment to efficacy. Co-Creating the Classroom Pursuing engagement, empowerment, and efficacy in the classroom amounts to co-creating the learning environment. As a teacher, once you […]
When hiring people responsible for answering the phones at IDE Corp., we tell them to “answer on the first ring” to show respect to the caller (that’s a norm); and we tell them to answer “Good [morning/afternoon], IDE Corp., ____________ speaking” (that’s a protocol). In educational terms: Norms are rules of engagement — expectations for working […]