‘Teacherpreneurs’— and free e-books
Teacherpreneurs tells the stories of eight classroom teachers who are shaping policies and practices at their schools. All are members of Center for Teaching Quality’s Collaboratory. Download...
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How to Train and Retain Great Principals in Struggling Urban Schools on PBS NewsHour looks at a Chicago campaign to recruit, train and support leaders who can turn around low-performing schools.
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Principal’s classroom visits don’t help
Principals say “instructional leadership” is important, but what does that mean? Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham praises a new study that recorded how 100 principals spent their time during the...
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Wanted: Good principals
In Lacking Leaders, Fordham looks at how five urban districts recruit, select and place principals. Even in “pioneering districts,” needy schools often lose out on “leaders with the potential to be...
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Teaching leadership through boxing
Mike Luna, 13, left, hits the pads against Armando Cano, 12, right, at a San Jose charter middle school. Photo: Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group A mix of calisthenics, boxing, counseling and leadership...
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Israel’s education secret: It’s not the schools
Israel is a global leader in technology, despite its small size, writes Naftali Bennett, a former high-tech CEO and now Minister of Education, in the Wall Street Journal. A “shadow education system”...
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Diamonds in the rough — or roughnecks?
Rebels and rule-breakers may be original thinkers who will change the world, writes teacher Ashley Lamb-Sinclair in The Atlantic. Albert Einstein was a teacher’s nightmare in his school days, she...
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Boy Scouts vs. Girl Scouts
I was a Brownie and then a Girl Scout at Ravinia Elementary School. We learned to fold a flag and to knit squares, which our leader assembled into a somewhat lumpy quilt which we donated to “the old...
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A shiny new school fails
San Francisco’s $54-million Willie Brown Jr. Middle School, which opened in 2015, is half full. San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income...
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Too much turnover foils turnaround
Milwaukee’s low-performing Carver Academy got more money, new leadership and “five years of attention from Milwaukee’s best minds in business and education,” reports Erin Richards in Lost Lessons in...
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