Getting it Going
So, I've been meaning to get this blog going for awhile and just haven't taken the plunge. So what, if I only have two people reading this to start, I have to start somewhere! I have had a few...
View ArticleA Shared Vision of Exemplary Teaching
In Alberta, theTeaching Quality Standard (TQS) is laid out by the provincial government as the knowledge, skills and attributes that all teachers are expected to meet in their practice throughout their...
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Learning on Display
Traditionally, in most classrooms, when a student completes an assignment, the audience is only one person - the teacher. If the finished product is something colourful and visually appealing, such as...
View ArticleMr. Bean on Educational Change
It's amazing the places that you can learn about educational change, especially if you look at things from a different perspective. At a recent conference, we were tasked with discussing how the clip...
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It's People, Not Programs
In his book, What Great Principals Do Differently: Fifteen Things That Matter Most, Todd Whitaker outlines a number of things that make great principals stand out from others. One of these is the...
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Base Every Decision on Your Superstars
Todd Whitaker describes the superstar teachers that we have in our schools as those that parents often request, would not be replaceable, are respected by peers and are remembered by former students as...
View ArticleProfessional Learning Teams
Education is full of catch phrases and new models and programs come and go. Still in vogue are Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and more recently, Professional Learning Teams (PLT). These models...
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Blogging as Teacher Leadership
How can blogging serve as a form of professional development? Does it have an impact on student learning?Although it is not always viewed as professional development, or even professional reading, the...
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21st Century Fluency Skills
Technology and information are changing society and how we operate, yet schools have had little change in their pedagogy, structure, operation curriculum and assessment models. This is an issue, as our...
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Focus on Professional Learning
Many of us educators have been in a professional development session, either as a participant or a presenter, only to hear the comment from another participant that "we had this last year". As an...
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Incremental vs Conceptual Change
I recently heard Mary Cullinane give a keynote address at the Learning Forward Summer Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. One of her key points that stuck with me was regarding change in the education...
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Book of Awesome - Back to School
I've been a big fan of Neil Pasricha's 1000 Awesome Things and the accompanying Book of Awesome books for quite some time. Here in Canada, we are just getting back into the swing of things and the new...
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An Apology to My Former Students or What I've Learned About Assessment
Everyone experiences growth through their chosen profession. As teachers, we are constantly exposed to learning, both of our students and our own. I have been very fortunate to have given an enormous...
View ArticleSchool Leadership in the 21st Century
The role of administration in schools is changing, as students and schools themselves are changing. It was not too long ago, that the role of school administrator was primarily a managerial job, in...
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Shifting Roles in the 21st Century
The 2010 special report, A Vision for 21st Century Education, by the Premier's Technology Council of British Columbia highlights what is needed for school systems to transform in order to properly...
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My Educational Technology Christmas List
It's the time of year when children are adding their final items to their Christmas list and making the trek to the local mall to tell the Jolly Old Elf what tops their list for Christmas. Keeping in...
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