I was invited to attend a screening of the soon-to-be-released film, Won’t Back Down. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the stars aligned in order to take in the preview, but I will certainly be there when the film goes into general release on September 29. I have to admit that I’m a bit of [...]
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Good to Great? Who Knew?
This post is mirrored today at the Canadian Education Association website There is a strong correlation between a school system’s improvement journey stage and the tightness of central control over the individual schools activities and performance. Systems on the poor to fair journey, in general characterized by lower skill educators, exercise tight, central control over [...]
What’s Cooking in our Elementary Schools?
Imagine that you have been appointed to a team of community members responsible for the planning and construction of a new elementary school in your area. Given your vision of 21st century learning, what would be the one design feature for which you would want to most vociferously advocate? Would it be a larger library/resource [...]
Degrading the elementary school experience
There’s a great piece of common sense that comes from the religious tradition in which I was raised. Here’s my version: You don’t put new wine into old wine-skins. If you do the new wine is going to burst the skins and you’re going to lose both the wine and the skins. Instead, you put [...]
Canadian Education: We’re in need of a good controversy or two
Check out the firestorm in the U.S. that has been fueled by the Davis Guggenheim film, Waiting for Superman. Mainstream, alternative and social media have been absolutely electric with conversation, debate and intense argument over some very fundamental issues relating to public education. Issues about equity, choice, charter schools, testing and teacher quality have been [...]
