Sunday, March 22, 2015

Learning Targets UPDATE: Where are you?

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Last summer over 250 Learning Targets books were given out to our campus administrators and teacher leaders in NISD.   The purpose was to c...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Are High-Stakes Tests Becoming Dinosaurs?

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About a year ago on this blog, I wrote a piece   entitled 364 > 1, in which I tried to emphasize the importance of high quality instr...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Never forget why you started…..

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At a training this week, the facilitator asked us to share an elevator speech on “Why you do what you do?”   It sounded simple enough, bu...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Don't Be a CRAB!!

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Have you ever worked with people that go out of their way to make sure new things don’t work?   They don’t want to put in the extra effo...
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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Take Your Students on a Cruise in 2015!!!

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What if all our students got to take a cruise during the course of the school year?   Now before you worry about your average daily atte...
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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Are we talking or planning in our PLCs?

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This week as I visited a campus, a teacher shared something that really resonated with me.   As we discussed the strengths of her campus she...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Managing a Baseball Team is Alot like Managing a Classroom

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1954 World Series Those that know me best know that I am a huge baseball fan.   I don’t follow it day to day like I used to, but after...