For starters, let’s make a good plan. I am a huge fan of curriculum mapping as a vehicle for having the important conversations with colleagues around what really matters in our learning experiences over the...

Good essential questions attempt to turn students into problem solvers by “requiring them to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers.” One of the key components of this is to challenge...

While I am supportive of multiple measures – and I list two excellent resources below on the topic – I don’t believe that we have made anywhere near satisfactory progress in this field. Simply put,...

“Our children deserve to be able to navigate through this world… I trust that we’re going to provide for them the education they need, the spiritual fortitude that they need. Our children are going to...

After experiencing the following this morning I felt led to share it with you in the hopes that it brings you encouragement and inspires courage, faith and trust in God in the present that he...

"I need to know that everything I’m asking those students to do is going to tie back into what [my students] are supposed to learn… I need to bring in, why would God want me...

As a more than casual observer of the teacher evaluation and teacher professional growth scene over the last thirty years, I feel a deep sense of discouragement about this aspect of our profession. The current...

“You just hire the best people possible and let them go; there is not much you can do after that.” This is a perspective commonly voiced to me by administrators. Truth be told, teacher evaluation...

Our bloggers and readers seemed to be reflecting on the value of group effort as the calendar changed from January to February. Our most read and shared blog posts provided practical advice related to practices...