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Letter from Nashville — Promoting the Idea that Great Teaching is Possible — Teaching like a Champion at LEAD — Part 4
LEAD Public Schools deserves more explicit and unequivocal praise than I have been offering. In the previous 3 posts, I was focusing on the idea of Exalting the Teaching Profession.…
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Letter from Nashville: Exalting the Teaching Profession — “Right Curriculum” — Part 3
Curriculum is not ultimately what makes the class. It is the intersection between the teacher and the student that makes the class. Placing curriculum first breaks that intersection.
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Letter from Nashville: Exalting the Teaching Profession — Systems — Part 2
Systems need to have built into them the mechanisms by which they can evolve in response to the naturally occurring stresses of a learning community. Facilitating that evolution…
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Letter from Nashville: So where DO they Exalt the Teaching Profession? — Part 1
When teachers are allowed to grow the curriculum themselves rather than having it imposed upon them, that exalts the teaching profession.
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Message from Management: Vision Statement: “EXALT … PROMOTE … COLLABORATE”
Greetings! We have sent out our December Newsletter. For those of you that have not received it yet, you can you can view it here. Here is a thumbnail sketch,…
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In Tokyo, children take the subway & run errands by themselves
It’s a common sight on Japanese mass transit: Children troop through train cars, singly or in small groups, looking for seats.
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