Leadership
NECC 2008 Expectations
As I mentioned in the previous blog post, I’m trying to round-up folks to attend NECC 2008 from my District. The main challenge is that this is the mandated vacation week for district staff…so, these folks are giving up their only summer vacation to attend NECC 2008. It seems like a great trade-off to me–although [...]
Texas vs National Ed-Tech Standards
In Texas, one of the new NCLB Reporting requirements includes what to do about assessing campus administrators. TEA’s letter said they would rely on the ISTE Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA). One colleague writes: If you mean the Tech standards they are going to use for the November report, TASA is going to put [...]
Stirring Appeal
Image: Auto-Stirring Coffee Mug That self-stirring coffee mug makes me think of the teachers Sheryl is targetting in this response to my Mosquito Learning post. Each cup has its own built-in propeller. Unfortunately, like the cup, batteries get used up, whether because they are used up or because someone keeps pushing the cup’s ON button, [...]
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 [...]