Learning Blog

I recently received Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time by Jane Pollock (My ASCD Book of the month). Last year at this time I received Classroom Instruction that Works as my Spring ASCD book. Both of these books have helped me become a better teacher by giving me data to [...]

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Boy has it been an intense few weeks. I have so much to write about and will soon. In the mean time, I have a thought.
Last week I had a conversation with a colleague about his head of school. My colleague said the following in reference to technology, education and our changing [...]

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During the past few months, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about Information and Media Literacy — I believe that this is one of the most concrete reasons to implement a laptop or 1 to 1 program in a school. To be responsible citizens in the 21st Century, students need to be ethical, [...]

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From The Learning Leader page 91 under the heading Challenging Educational Mythology:
In a profession that prides itself on rationality, education is strongly awash in mythology. Often the mythology has a tinge of truth or whisper of research, lending suficient credibility for a sound bite, but not enough evidence to sustain scrutiny.
The stories we need [...]

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I just finished “A Whole New Mind” by Dan Pink. He suggests that in the Conceptual Age (what he thinks we are entering after the information age), we will need more Right Brain based skills: Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning. He describes how feeling professions such as nursing are growing at large [...]

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So I’m home on paternity leave with my four month old daughter for three weeks. We’re having a good time playing, eating and napping. One of my addictions (other than coffee) is listening to WNYC. As I listen, I have been thinking a lot about David Warlick concept of the new story [...]

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