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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Educators With Ideas for Solutions: Speak Up!
If those legislating the changes want to improve schools, let's get better at voicing an alternative to their plan. Let's have that plan encompass more than a demand for more money. That 20th century strategy will no longer work.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Common Core is Hard Work
We need to get better at teaching the public what it is we do, what our work truly is, and the process through which we all go in order to get where we are headed.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Improve Teacher Retention by Finding Out What Makes Veteran Teachers Special
We can learn an enormous amount about how to make schools happier and healthier places for both children and adults by studying what psychological qualities the most committed teachers possess.
Education
Opinion
Expanding Recognition
Make a commitment to acknowledging the little things. Those acts are encouraged when recognized, actually by anyone. These acts are the ones not explicit in a job description of the faculty or grades of students, but they do call us to a higher level of being human.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Senior Pranks: Can They Be an Assessment of Creativity?
Leading requires that we navigate today's reality in the context of the territory ahead. Planning what our schools will look like moving forward is essential. Innovation includes knowing what the barriers may be and planning around them.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Tennessee Leaders Step Ahead With Free Tuition for All HS Grads
On Tuesday, Bill Haslam, Governor to Tennessee announced a new state program. Called the Tennessee Promise, it will guarantee two years of a community college or two years at a college of applied technology to all graduating high school seniors.
Curriculum
Opinion
21st-Century School Design Requires More Than Coding
Our plea is that leaders not allow the emergence of coding or STEM to take the design of our schools out of our hands. We call out to the leaders among us to take hold of this exciting time in our professional lives and begin to design the schools our children need.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Violence Is Coming to School
We must be alert to who among us, in the legions of beautiful, developing, curious, young students, is suffering with such anti-social, harmful thoughts, that may call them to action.
Education
Opinion
Are Happy Leaders Better at Developing Resilience?
It is too easy to forget the pure joy happiness brings as it reveals the truth. After all, when we are truly happy doesn't everything feel more balanced, less extreme, and more like it truly is, without the shadows of darkness and worry? All things happen in a better way when we are happy.
Science
Opinion
Girls and STEM
So not only do we have an obligation to prepare all students for STEM fields, it seems that particularly for young women, we need to prepare them to be scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians AND we need to prepare them to be advocates who can champion their cause and fight for equal opportunities in these fields.
Teaching
Opinion
Bridging the Technology Divide
We need bridge builders to help us see the connections and develop the capacity to integrate technology into our programs...not as an add on. We need those who can break down for us how these 21st century tools can be used within our systems that hold to 20th century requirements and facilities.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Racism's Ugly Face Calls Us to Positive Action
In our words and actions, we must represent the good in America. We must hold the doors open to those who have found them closed. That's what educational leaders are called to do.
Education
Opinion
Peter DeWitt's Bold and Audacious Invitation
Peter DeWitt is inviting the much needed conversation. He is creating a space that holds possibility for finding common ground by inviting people who have expressed opinions that are different from his to be guest bloggers. And he has invited his followers, should they agree or disagree with these divergent views, to comment.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Can We Quantify Great Teaching?
A great teacher cares about giving every student the best education possible. They teach with high standards, and encourage confidence and the courage to learn. And, they see and know each student because they care deeply.