You’re feeling good – you have created demand for modeling your school as a PLC and have structures in place to answer the key questions. You are making progress along... read more →
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills." –Chinese proverb I’ve recently had reason to want to grab some bricks and build that wall... read more →
The Gladys Polk Elementary School community, in Richwood Texas, recently experienced Hurricane Harvey. The extensive flooding in our area caused us to have to cancel school for two weeks. When... read more →
A great deal of our work to improve student learning is accomplished through powerful conversations at the team level. Collaborative teams answer the guiding question, “What do we want students... read more →
We never would have believed that the four critical questions of a PLC could create such a positive impact on our learning environment and student achievement. From these original questions,... read more →
There is a great deal of talk in education these days about 21st Century learning. A quick Google search of this topic produces thousands of hits. Much of it focuses... read more →
As I paid visits to schools at the beginning of this year, a teacher sent a question through the principal, “ask her when we are going to be good enough”. I... read more →
An announcement posted on the school district’s website, www.mineralpointschools.org: “The Mineral Point Unified School District received outstanding academic news from the Cooperative Educational Service Agency #6 in Oshkosh. CESA 6 engaged... read more →
“Only half of the students in our school were proficient on last year’s end-of-level test, and our teachers seem satisfied with that!” This was the frustrating observation of a school... read more →
You can call your goat a chicken, but you won’t be eating eggs for breakfast! You may be thinking…what the heck does that mean? Quite simply put, changing the label does... read more →