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Change Your Mind, Change Your Workplace
What's happiness got to do with teacher retention and loyalty? Everything. According to Martin Seligman, founder of Positive Psychology, positive feelings enable employees to be open to new ideas and tackle challenging problems. Moreover, in a business Read More...
Fixing What Ails Us Is Just A Mirror Away
How telling that the most popular post to this blog talks about getting rid of bad teachers. It’s easy to point out where teaching falls through the cracks. That’s a cop out. What’s more challenging is to align what’s working in our schools. What are Read More...
Finland is the gold standard for school professional development
Finland, known for it's beautiful lakes and breathtaking forests, is now known as an educational powerhouse according to the latest results from PISA . The results from this assessment measures 15 year olds capabilities in reading science, and math literacy. Read More...
212 degrees: Producing steam in professional development
I love the DVD 212 degrees produced by Simple Truth s. After presenting the scientific fact that it takes one extra degree to turn boiling water into steam, you are taken on a journey to answer a simple question: What if you gave 99% effort to everything Read More...
Removing Ineffective Teachers
Last week, Mayor Bloomberg of New York City, announced a plan to get rid of ineffective veteran teachers by bringing in some muscle - legal muscle that is. The Teacher Performance Unit (T-Unit) is made up of five lawyers and a prosecutor whose sole task Read More...