Teacher Responses to Principal Feedback- A Series

Teacher Responses to Principal Feedback- A Series

I’ve been anxious to get back to the readers of the Media-X Blog. I have been a little busy working on my dissertation, but am excited to be able to share with you what I have learned from my research. Literature in the area of classroom observations and teacher...
6 Steps to Better Walkthroughs

6 Steps to Better Walkthroughs

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...
Schools Should be a Campus for Our Imagination

Schools Should be a Campus for Our Imagination

(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...
Top 5 Benefits to Attending a Rural School

Top 5 Benefits to Attending a Rural School

Today I’m going to change the mood a little bit. You could see this as an opinion piece as I never went to elementary school in the city. Who knows, there could be a million reasons why going to an inner city school is the best thing ever. But I don’t know...
Steve’s Birthday Lunch

Steve’s Birthday Lunch

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...