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by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership Diane Ravitch, whom I follow closely on Twitter and who blogs regularly at EdWeek's Bridging Differences, regularly comments on the role of Race to the Top and related legislation on the state of teacher compensation. She has become an outspoken critic of merit pay... Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership If you can bring about rapid, radical change to accomplish something important, go ahead - why not? We need bold experimentation and exploration. We need people to try things no one else is doing in education. I'm a big fan of pilot projects and trying new ideas,... Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership We had a surprise on Saturday - our baby girl arrived nearly 5 weeks early and was breech, so we had to have an emergency C-section. The baby is in NICU right now and making steady progress. We're in one of the best hospitals on earth in which to have a baby, and I... Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership I'm convinced that we need a little bit of firing in public education. Some principals, teachers, and other educators simply aren't cutting it, and are harming kids as a result. Some of us need to be fired. Not too many - just some. But what role should firing ... Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership I've been trying a few different methods for doing walkthroughs and giving feedback to teachers using my iPad. I used a paper log and paper notes for feedback in previous years, but now that I have an iPad, it's time to go paperless. I've tried a few different solu... Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership Yesterday I spent the day at another elementary school in my district as part of our district's Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) for principals. The five of us spent the morning identifying a problem of practice and visiting classrooms, and spent the aftern... Read Full Post >
Seattle Principal Justin Baeder argues that the teacher and principal evaluation process doesn't have to be perfunctory, and is more productive when it focuses on rigor, relevance, relationships, and results. Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership In an op-ed in the Washington Post today, a bevy of urban superintendents (including Klein, Rhee, and Huberman of NYC, DC, and Chicago, respectively) offer their manifesto on "How to Fix Our Schools." Puzzlingly, rather than celebrate their accomplishments and bo... Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership In his recent post on Reality Check, Walt Gardner rightly points out that accountability for teachers must be matched or exceeded by accountability for principals: Unless principals are blatantly incompetent, they tend to remain in their jobs. Nevertheless, princip... Read Full Post >
by Justin Baeder | @eduleadership We have long believed that there is a link between school leadership and student performance; many studies (such as those conducted by Kenneth Leithwood) have explored this relationship and have found principals to be second only to teachers in their impact on stud... Read Full Post >
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