Leadership Lessons to Help Middle Schools Blossom and Grow It’s finally spring—and time for blossoming, growing, flourishing, and mulch. That’s right, mulch. For anyone unaware of the joys of mulch, mulch comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors, and you can buy it in large bags or even have it delivered in one large heap to your
Six Words to Create a Great School for Young Adolescents! It’s time for us to bid farewell to our good friend, the letter C, for the ABCs blog. Before we move to our next letter, let’s take a look back at sensational, scintillating C. We’ve looked at the magical middle grades through the lenses of Conversation, Cross-Content
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Walk the Walk about Talking the Talk! Conversation is something that we often take for granted—like air. It swirls around us. We breathe it in. We listen to it as it bends and curves. Our ears hear it. However, even though it is as critical as the air we breathe, we often aren’t really listening. By
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5 Ways to Create Buzzworthy PD Spring is in the air. Trees are beginning to bud. Flowers are starting to blossom. And bees are doing their critical work among us, which makes me think about cross-pollination and how it connects with improving middle level education and ourselves through professional learning. While I don’t claim to be an expert
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Some universities blame the poor academic performance of their young adult students on the poor quality instruction they think students received in high schools. High schools blame the middle schools, middle schools blame elementary schools, and elementary schools blame their students’ gene pool. It is stunning how similar their commentaries are to those recorded by
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And Say Hello to the Letter A for Amazing Middle Grades! We’ve checked out several B words that relate to the marvelous, magnificent middle grades, but before we bid adieu to this letter, here’s a list of other B words that are worth our time and consideration. What’s on your list? Binary: Students should be empowered to make learning
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