This study was born out of my passion to spend less time in my office and more time in classrooms. What I have learned from this study is that teachers want school leaders to visit their classrooms and see the great things they are doing with their students. To...
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...
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...
In speaking with schools and districts about our software, there is one question that never fails to be asked: How do we get access to our data? I feel like I can always detect a strong note of worry whenever this question is asked. I am not privy to the policies of...
As a new principal, I began visiting classrooms so that I would know what was happening in my building. I also wanted to visit classrooms so that I could have intelligent conversations with parents, supervisors, and other stakeholders when they wanted to know what was...