In the midst of a busy morning arrival time, a few middle school students greeted me as I walked through the crowded hallway toward the room in which my meeting was being held. “Sup Dr. W. Are you coming to our classes today?” one student asked. I replied that I would try if I had
Leadership
Sometimes teaching can cause tunnel vision. Teachers often look inside their school district, building, or classroom for resources to help their students learn, neglecting the partnerships outside the immediate school community that can provide invaluable resources. One such partnership was forged between a school district, a local park district, and a university. In the Beginning
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How can you determine if your decisions are colored by emotion? Have you ever: Made a decision that backfired? Thought that hindsight is 20/20? Wished you had made a different decision? As they share in their February 3, 2009, Harvard Business Review article “Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions,” Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, and Sydney Finkelstein, researchers
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Bringing effective leadership to a new school in Luxembourg. When Atert-Lycèe Redange, a middle-secondary school in Luxembourg, opened its doors in 2008 to 360 students, Claude Boever’s dream became a reality. Today, the school serves 1,200 students on a pristine campus located in the village of Redange near the Attert River. As the school was
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At a middle school in Texas, a fantasy football league was a win for the entire school. Finding simple ways to boost teacher morale on a limited budget isn’t easy. Surprisingly, fantasy football or another similar competitive multi-person activity might be the answer. The Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) estimates that nearly 57 million people
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Turning up the heat to prepare students for the future. At Berwick Alternative School, we began building STEAM last year—this year we’re moving full STEAM ahead! Berwick, a K–8 school in Columbus, Ohio, has enjoyed a strong legacy of success; however, our learning community came together to reinvent the future, and the result was a
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