Peter DeWitt is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. A former public school teacher and principal, he now facilitates professional learning in the United States and abroad based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books. Former superintendent Michael Nelson is a frequent contributor to this opinion blog. He is the co-leader of ILC and a former superintendent who has been an educator for more than 40 years.
Education
Opinion
Making Your Voice Heard: The Power of the Teacher Brand
Teachers are getting bashed on one side and praised on the other. Is it time for teachers to create their own brand?
Education
Opinion
Principal Evaluation: Focused on the Trees or the Forest?
Our conversations are consumed by teacher evaluation, but what about evaluating principals?
Education
Opinion
What If You Only Had 5 Minutes to Inspire a Teacher?
The reports are everywhere. Teacher enrollment is down, but their status is up. Regardless of the reports, teachers need a little inspiration. What would you say if you had 5 minutes to do it?
Education
Opinion
How to Be More Generationally Savvy: Skills for Collaborating - Part 2
In schools we have staff that cross from young to veteran, which means we all need to be more generational Savvy in order to collaborate across generations. This is Part II is a series of II by Jennifer Abrams.
Education
Opinion
Flipped Leadership Is About Instructional Leadership
Sometimes flipped leadership comes of like a gimmick, but it's really centered in instructional leadership. Instructional leadership takes a whole lot of risk taking and relationship building.
Education
Opinion
The Flip Side of Feedback: Embedded Professional Learning
The flipside of feedback. How often do teachers ask students for feedback on what transpired in the classroom as a way to advance their own teaching and ultimately student learning?
Education
Opinion
Gender Equity in Education - Still a Long Way to Go
In today's guest blog, Andreas Scheicher, well known for his role in PISA explains the ABC's of gender equality in education.
Education
Opinion
Maybe You Should Raise Their Grade
Recently an article appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education that focused on why professors won't raise a student's grade when asked. Perhaps the issue isn't the student, but the clarity of the teacher.
Education
Opinion
How to Increase Leadership Impact on Teacher Observations
Teacher observations are incredibly important but are usually filled with pomp and circumstance and are more concerned about getting it done instead of getting it done right. Why not use SOLO Taxonomy?
Education
Opinion
State Testing: Where's the Dialogue Around Learning?
Two recent commentaries in Education Week and the NY Times focused on the need for annual state testing. Unfortunately we keep battling over testing at a time when we should really talk about learning.
Teaching
Opinion
Priority Standards: The Power of Focus
In order for teachers to effectively teach everything on their list, they must use the priority standard approach. Here's how to do it.
Education
Opinion
Letting Parents in on the Secret of School
We assume there are topics that parents don't need to know about when we engage in initiatives or changes, when the reality is that they are the very topics that parents need to know about.
Education
Opinion
How Many Years of Teaching Experience Should a Principal Have?
5, 10, 15...how many years of teaching should a principal have before entering the role?
Education
Opinion
Being Visible Isn't Enough
In leadership classes school leaders are taught to be visible, but in order to really foster student voice and put a focus on learning, school leaders need to be more than visible.