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.
Teaching
Opinion
The Myth of Learning Styles
For many years educators were under the false notion that there were learning styles, and recent research shows that they don't exist.
Education
Opinion
Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives
In today's guest blog written by OECD's (PISA) Andreas Schleicher, he says, "It's time for all of us to take the lessons we learned through the crisis and turn them into a sustainable plan to get our young people back on the path to prosperity."
Education
Opinion
Education: Is There No Common Ground?
We have been involved in debate after debate about what works best in education. Will we ever find common ground?
Education
Opinion
Social-Emotional Learning Is More Than a 21st-Century Skill
To truly prepare students to be college and career ready we need to continue to teach them the social-emotional skills they will need for college, career, and their personal lives.
Education
Opinion
Treating Education as a Zero-Sum Game
No matter how many academics give inspirational TED talks or publish papers on innovative pedagogy, no matter how much blood, sweat and tears teachers donate to the cause, there is a hidden barrier to meaningful, large-scale improvement in education: zero-sum thinking.
Education
Opinion
Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zones
Stepping out of our comfort zones is difficult, but there may be no better time to do it than now.
Education
Opinion
Are the BATs a Tour de Force?
What began as a group of vocal teachers, quickly turned into the BAT's encompassing a nationwide group of more than 35,000 educators, parents and students who are showing some serious political strength.
Education
Opinion
Modeling Mistakes to Develop Mastery
All students worry about being wrong, and as teachers, we need to recognize the self-censorship that occurs and develop an atmosphere that promotes risk taking and a positive spin on missing the mark.
Education
Opinion
So...You Didn't Get Into Your First Choice
"It is not the college we get accepted into that matters, but what we do with the opportunity when we get there."
Education
Opinion
Be the Skype Version of Flat Stanley
Flat Stanley has been around for decades, and there is an innovative way to incorporate all that is good about the book with a more modern twist using Skype.
Education
Opinion
Silence Is a Good Start...
The Day of Silence is much more than supporting students who feel they don't have a voice. The Day of Silence is for supporting those students who get picked on for using their voice every day.
Student Achievement
Opinion
Is the Stress of Poverty to Blame for Academic Failure?
In today's guest post by Pamela Cantor, she asks whether poverty is responsible for academic failure ... or the stress of poverty that is.
Education
Opinion
Creating Assessment-Capable Learners
In order to prepare students for when they are on the learning road to self-discovery, we need to make sure they are assessment capable learners.
Education
Opinion
This Assessment...Not That Assessment
There is a big difference between the capital A Assessment of high stakes testing, and the lower case a of classroom assessment.