Yesterday's article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer was titled Teachers' Seniority Rights Under Assault in Cleveland, Across Nation. The article highlights the growing battle over seniority provisions in collective bargaining […]

[This is a guest post from Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins' response to this […]

[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]

[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today I am […]

[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]

[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today the Crimson […]

This is a must-watch video by Hans Mundahl, Director of Experiental Learning and Technology Coordinator at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire. Not only does Hans have a cool […]

Here’s an activity you can do with school administrators and teachers (and maybe school board members?). Total time: about 45 minutes.n

For those of you who haven’t noticed (yes, I’m talking to you, RSS subscribers), Dangerously Irrelevant now has a new look! I finally made the switch from TypePad to WordPress. […]

CASTLE’s1to1 Schools group blog gets more popular every day. Over the last three days it has passed the 500 subscribers mark. If you’re interested in issues related to 1:1 laptop programs and […]

I commented back in January that I was confused about what was happening with Feedburner. I’m not sure that I have any greater clarity now than I did before. Here […]

It’s tough to know when to scale back. We have causes and people that we’re committed to, responsibilities that we want to fulfill, teams that we want to support, and […]

Here are three quotes from Stefana Broadbent's excellent TED Talk: there are new, hidden tensions that are actually happening between people and institutions -- institutions that are the institutions that […]

As a school law instructor and tenured associate professor of educational leadership, I perhaps have a different view of tenure than most P-12 teachers. As we look to what the […]

Judy Jeffrey announced yesterday that she is retiring as the Director of the Iowa Department of Education. She has been a tremendous supporter of revamping the ways that Iowa schools […]

What is the biggest barrier to moving schools forward into a technology-suffused, globally-interconnected era? Our mental models of what schooling should look like. Unfortunately, most educators, parents, and policymakers have no idea what […]

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] n As school leaders, we have the responsibility to n n Facilitate learning environments that are respectful, empowering, and engaging for students n Create workplaces that are […]

Is this school in New York City the future of schooling? The School of One: Program Overview (see also the write-ups at Teaching Matters and The Huffington Post)

Yesterday I got the e-mail below. I watched the video trailer and made my contribution this morning. Crazy high school robots battling it out for engineering supremacy? How can you […]

My teaching philosophy is pretty straightforward. I believe that the teaching-learning process is primarily for the benefit of the learner, not the teacher. all students can, will, and want to […]