The MetLife American Teacher Survey presented insight into the problems with teacher job satisfaction, and the frustration that is building with the bureaucratic intrusions into the demands on teachers today. Read Full Post >
Since the implementation process is well underway, what can we do to be the transformers? How can we use this debilitating opportunity to actually improve our principals and teachers? This is worth doing. If we begin a new process and simply skim over it without honoring its value, its introduction may be accepted, but not attended to. We have to push against our institutional habit of clinging to the old ways. Read Full Post >
Elementary school educators are more likely than their high school peers to see technological know-how as an important school-leadership skill, a survey reveals. Read Full Post >
In an annual survey, principals report declining levels of job satisfaction. Read Full Post >
Relatively few are "very confident" that new standards will improve achievement or make students more ready for college and work. Read Full Post >
At the Mission Hill school, teachers are empowered to decide what's best for their students. Would more schools be healthier places if more teachers were given similar latitude? Read Full Post >
Dancing Classrooms is more than teaching children ballroom dancing. It is a program that teaches leadership, confidence, respect, acceptance, as well as strengthens self-esteem. Read Full Post >
Can a classroom manage itself? Read Full Post >
Equal access to a good public education can be offered in every classroom through the development of literacy. Read Full Post >
Charters struggle as much as traditional public schools to keep their best teachers and get rid of ineffective ones. Read Full Post >
