Are School Leaders Prepared for the Job?
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What Does Public Education Mean to You?
Public education means different things to different people. Peter DeWitt asked the experts what public education meant to them. Read Full Post >
September 27, 2012
Todd Whitaker Already Said It
"If we visualize each student as a jar of potential, our responsibility is to take the lid off and point the jar in the right direction, not tighten the top so the highest level of creativity never gets out." Todd Whitaker Recently, I read an outstanding and very eloquent blog by Todd Whitaker. He... Read Full Post >
April 14, 2012
How Can We Fix Education?
"I don't know if we should resist change, but I do know we should insist on improvement." Todd Whitaker Recently there was a great article published by Joan Almon and Edward Miller called The Crisis in Education: A Research-Based Case for More Play and Less Pressure. The article focuses on the push... Read Full Post >
October 02, 2011
What Great Educators Do Differently: A Conversation with Todd Whitaker
"The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day." Todd Whitaker Educators have read a great deal of philosophical literature in their careers. They are inundated with it at the college level, and many educational books... Read Full Post >
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