Education
We Shall Overcome
Skimming my Doug Johnson this morning as I waited for the family to wake up (actually, we have a rooster in the form of a poodle that insists on whining for attention at the exact same time every morning), I ran across this quote: Education is also a means of keeping the rich, rich and [...]
Visitor Check-In Systems
One of my Professional Development Meme activities is to write an article exploring campus visitor check-in systems. I’ll eventually publish it in Education World, but started doing the research last week. Some of the questions I’m asking include: Are there any particular features that make this kind of system desirable, aside from the ones you’ve [...]
School Administrators – Lost in Space
Tim Holt (Intended Consequences, the blog NOT the book) writes the following comment in response to my tongue in cheek post about coddling administrators–that Stephen Downes picked up on–and Scott McLeod ignored: If you’re waiting for comments from school administrators, we may be here a while. Those leaders not only don’t write blogs, they don’t [...]
Ruminating on the OLD House
There is nothing like a dream to create the future–Victor Hugo Some time ago, I made what Jim Collins ("Good to Great") calls a stop doing list. Schmoker describes this list in this way: Collins writes that we must all make a "stop doing list." We must "stop doing anything and everything" that doesn’t get [...]
Tech Staff Salaries
What is your work worth? I’m sure it’s priceless, but I recently had the occasion to request the salaries for technology-related staff. The positions include these positions and the average salary of those positions: Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer – $75,952.89 Director-Instructional Technology – $62,662.73 District Instructional Technologist/Teacher Specialist/Integration Facilitator – $55.831.08 Network Services Director [...]