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How Do Students That Hate School Learn?
It has been my privilege to know many students at many grade and age levels, who have said they hated school. They were all different, referred to as brilliant, disenchanted, disengaged, unmotivated,...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Teaching Observation
I was recently at a teaching gathering of active and former educators of varying ages. They all had similar, but not very positive, observation and teacher evaluation stories. The conversation was...
View ArticleInvitation to Learning
I have more questions than answers about what’s really important in student learning. I talk and listen to a lot of people, whom I know are much smarter and know so much more, but I get to a point...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Teaching Reading
I know from experience, from having done it, that teaching reading is a tremendous challenge, and that first grade teachers need to be experts at teaching students to read. Teaching reading does not...
View ArticleRelevancy of Student Learning
Students understand relevancy of learning as well as, or better than, anyone involved with, or in, education. They are, after all, usually at the receiving end of learning, and most often captive in...
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Meaningful Little Student Data
Ken Royal It seems data has gotten some negative press lately, especially when the word is associated with student information, but meaningful student data is extremely essential to teaching and...
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Supt. John C. Carver: Future Ready
Supt. John C. Carver Superintendent John C. Carver (@JohnCCarver) leads the Howard-Winneshiek Community Schools in Northeast Iowa (Cresco). He has never been stranded on an education island, or shied...
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Feedback Is More Than Raising Hands
If raising hands is the only feedback device used at schools, today, it should be cause for a loud learning alarm to go off, because it certainly could be classified as depriving students entry into...
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Get to Know Promethean
Jim Marshall, Promethean CEO Lately, I’ve been thinking that we assume a lot. So, it seems to me, taking a step back to share what we do, and how we do it is important. We, also, sometimes take for...
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Giving Students an Active Voice
Helping educators understand that students learn better when they are involved, as well as how to get students engaged throughout a lesson should be the goal of every school leader. There may still...
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Changing Learning Environment Perceptions
Ken Royal There has to be a change of perception, as to what a learning environment needs to look like, and that doesn’t necessarily mean that the physical appearance of the classroom needs to change....
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