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We have a bunch of crazy dice at our house, including fractions dice, decimal dice, money dice, alien dice, dice with colored dots on them, and dice within dice. We […]
It's the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa. The past two years at this time, I've posted the following checklist, wondering if schools have made any improvement since […]
Although we need some more lists of subject-specific blogs (which I'll work on in future posts), the blogs page of the Moving Forward wiki is basically a pretty solid resource […]
Linda Fandel's blog at The Des Moines Register is focused on "world class schools for Iowa." Kudos to her and the Register for devoting time and attention to this issue. […]
Inspired by Cory Plough's post about his meetup and presentation with Kelly Dumont, I'm going to try and do a better job of letting people know when I might be […]
I am pleased to say that 694 posts (and 3,019 comments) later, Dangerously Irrelevant is 2 years old today. I can hardly believe it's been 730 days since my first […]
[cross-posted atnLeaderTalk] n In my post for LeaderTalk thisnmonth, I'm going to quickly address three ideas related to video games,nschools, and learning and offer a short wrap-up at the end... […]
nWell, it was a close competition but we have a winner in the 140character book review contest: n n Workers are promoted to their level of incompetence. Explains School Administration […]
Okay, I've got one more contest in me this summer... As usual, the winner gets everlasting fame and a CASTLE mug. I'll also throw in three great books: It's Being […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog ] I'm in the midst of reading Clark Aldrich's Simulations and the Future of Learning . As Aldrich walks me through the process of developing […]
Sometimes a story is just so egregiously stupid that you not only have to post about it but encourage others to spread the word too. This might be one of […]
The Teacher Salary Project is intended to call attention to the important and difficult work that teachers do. I agree that teachers "deserve more." Is it wrong of me to […]
The good news from the most comprehensive study ever done of gender and math performance? 'No gender difference' in scores among children in grades 2 through 11. [see research summary] […]
Distributed (or shared) leadership is all the rage right now in leadership circles. And rightfully so. School leaders should tap into the wealth of expertise and experience that their staffs […]
Voting for the finalists in the 140-character book review contest is now open: CLICK HERE TO VOTE! See the results to date I picked nine of my favorites. It was […]
Samuel Smiles, a Scottish author, said: We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and […]
Over at the On Our Minds @ Scholastic blog, Tyler Reed is pondering the recent announcement by the Lamar (MS) County School District that it will prohibit teachers from communicating […]
Head on over to Leading From the Heart and leave Tracy Rosen a comment on her thought-provoking post about revisiting digital literacy. Here's the comment I just left her: n […]
Al Gore said: We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. He was talking about global climate […]
As you can see below, there were a number of great Leadership Day 2008 posts. If I missed someone, my apologies in advance. Please add your link in the comments […]