Leadership 360
Leadership experts in the K-12 field Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers wrote about challenges and possibilities for administrators in the 21st century. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Lead by Example: Leverage Technology in 3 Steps
While there are district leaders who have embraced technology, many find still technology foreign, intimidating or overwhelming.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Bullying Threatens Academic Achievement and Healthy Children
Yes, there is cause to eliminate bullying to support academic success but there is a fundamental societal reason to teach children how to interact responsibly with one another.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Teaching, Learning, and Technology: A Look Back #tbt
Teachers were ready in 1991 to infuse technology into the teaching and learning environment. We didn't seize the moment then. We must now.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Prepare for the Advances in E-Learning
Embracing e-Learning as a new teaching technology requires innovative teachers and leaders willing to step into, work, and observe in this new medium.
Curriculum
Opinion
Why Turn to Interdisciplinary Learning?
Why we do something is key to understanding what it is we are doing. At the edges of interdisciplinary trans-disciplinary work, answers can be found.
Assessment
Opinion
High Standards and Authentic Instruction and Assessment: A Look Back #TBT
Authentic learning opportunities and authentic assessments have been on the educational landscape for years. Yet there remains a need for shared understanding of what that means.
Education
Opinion
Listen to the Children
The children have something to say. There is value to listening to them. Otherwise how can we hope to meet their needs and include them as learners?
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Throwback Thursday: National Standards
Advice from 1990 offers guidance about how local school districts can lead the implementation of the Common Core with the welfare of the students held as the beacon for the change.
Teaching
Opinion
Teachers and Leaders: Avoid Closed Questions
Teachers yearn for their students to sit up and engage in learning. Questions that require more than a yes or no answer empowers and engages.
Curriculum
Opinion
Throwback Thursday: Curriculum Reviews
The Common Core may have been the provocation this time, but curriculum review, routine for some, should be for all; if not before, at least now.
Education
Opinion
Pro Sports Players, Leaders, and Domestic Violence
Now might be exactly the right time to open and keep open the discussion about considering domestic abuse, physical punishment of children and where we are as a nation and as a community.
Education
Opinion
Developing the Whole Leader
How much focus does a district place on the development of and value for integrity, perseverance, courage, reflection, kindness and empathy?
Early Childhood
Opinion
Throwback Thursday: Close the Achievement Gap Early
It is in the interest of some potential students and their families that we begin to advocate in earnest for an enriched pre-school experience.
Education
Opinion
Conformity Thwarts Innovation
The environment we need in order to encourage teachers and students to engage a 21st century learning environment will require new thinking and true leaders.