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As an untenured professor at a major research university, of necessity I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about 'writing' and 'publication.' I've blogged about some of this […]
Miguel challenged us to find new voices. Over the next week and a half, I will profile eight bloggers that I've found informative and intriguing. Most represent a leadership perspective. […]
Miguel challenged us to find new voices. Between now and February 17 I am profiling eight bloggers that I've found informative and intriguing. Today's new voice: Scott Elias, Do I […]
Miguel challenged us to find new voices. Over the next week and a half, I will profile eight bloggers that I've found informative and intriguing. Most represent a leadership perspective. […]
I've often been told that I'm a good teacher, which of course I appreciate greatly. But I've decided I need to do more anti-teaching a la Mike Wesch (you probably […]
Miguel challenged us to find new voices . Between now and February 17 I am profiling eight nine bloggers that I've found informative and intriguing. Most represent a leadership perspective […]
Miguel challenged us to find new voices . Between now and February 17 I am profiling eight nine bloggers that I've found informative and intriguing. Most represent a leadership perspective […]
Some daycare centers are allowing parents to log in and watch what's happening in their kid's classroom via secure webcam. As sort of a follow-up to yesterday's post, here are […]
Christian, I don't know if this is what you had in mind when you tagged me for the leadership meme, but here goes... I believe that effective school leaders can […]
Today I uploaded the second CASTLE Conversations podcast for our data-driven decision-making podcast series. After feeding them a yummy lunch, I had a great discussion with Joan MacDonald, Linda Perdaems, […]
Miguel's wistful.Anne's feeling dull.Wesley's introspective.Doug's worried that some of his favorite bloggers are trying to compensate. This all serves to highlight the results from the education blogosphere survey that I […]
Andy Carvin notes on the Learning Now blog that a New Jersey school district has banned students from recording their teachers in class after a student recorded a teacher's classroom […]
Wesley Fryer and Miguel Guhlin have both 'tagged' me to discuss how I blog, think about blogging, create my blog posts, etc. I'm usually happy to play along, so here […]
David Warlick has blogged often about our need to tell a new story. A story about the technological shifts that are occurring in our society. A story about the impacts […]
(Seth Godin, The Big Moo, 2005, back cover of dust jacket)
Okay, let me begin by stating that I know several things about this blog post: It's probably going to make some people angry, It's probably going to discourage some people, […]
In their acclaimed book, Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras note that visionary companies set Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals (BHAGs), bold mission statements that act as powerful mechanisms […]
We've started a new initiative we are calling CASTLE Conversations: interviews with interesting people about technology and/or leadership issues. In some ways it will be very similar to the awesome […]
Here's something if you have a 60- to 90-minute block of time with educators... 100% Proficiency on Old Skills? A Candid Conversation About the Demands of NCLB and Preparing Students […]
Listen to this post! There are some great conversations going on right now about Marc Prensky's article, Engage Me or Enrage Me. One is at Dennis Fermoyle's blog; the other […]