I highly recommend this article from John Hattie about what is important and not important concerning student learning during this pandemic.
Visible Learning Effect Sizes When Schools Are Closed: What Matters and What Does Not | Corwin Connect https://t.co/FsHXzxdCzD
Still going strong w the best practice I was blessed to discover from Sean Cain. Improved many schools in my time and got better results for teachers and kids. Retired now but still share F5 wherever I go. Dr. P
“...American school culture rooted in childhood stress & the elimination of the arts and play—all to make room for a tidal wave of standardized testing. Nearly two decades and tens of billions of dollars later, it isn’t working. Yet the boondoggle continues...” @williamdoylenyc
Can anyone help me understand why we continue to ask principals to spend their precious time monitoring teachers’ lesson plans instead monitoring the delivery of teachers’ lessons? Are we more interested in a well written lesson plan or a well planned (and delivered) lesson?!?
You can be both confident and humble. Humble knowing there is a God and it’s not you. Confident knowing you were made in God’s image and He has a plan for your life.
Troy Reynolds wrote some great stuff about the failings of the A-F school rating system in Texas. He posted the three parts in @Texans4E. I tried compiling his posts into one, a one stop shop of sorts. It’s a bad system. Troy helps us understand why.
https://t.co/IlqqvIRnsO