Is great teaching the key to raising student achievement? Absolutely! This is the message we hear over and over again from our customers and partners in the US, Canada and the UK . But knowing what great teaching looks like, or helping good teachers improve is...
In my book ‘The Essential Guide to Classroom Walkthroughs’, there are case studies of successful implementations of classroom walkthroughs and classroom observations described, as well as references to the research on classroom walkthroughs and...
I don’t sleep very well. I tend to go to bed late and wake early. I drink coffee. I drink a lot of coffee. For quite some time (years actually), I’ve thought, “Maybe, just maybe…. I should sleep a bit more than I do,” but this was just a...
(Part 1 of 2 part series on the flipped classroom) Being an “early adopter” educator is not an easy path. My own path started in 1989 when I was 29 years old and a rookie Assistant Professor at a Pharmacy College in St. Louis, MO. My goal was to develop a...
I love Steve’s Birthday! Well I love all birthdays because they are such happy occasions… but I especially love Steve’s birthday because then we get seafood at lunch. Now you may be asking why we deserve such largesse. In my last Friday lunch blog, I...
