Assessments Drive Instruction

Everyone thinks they know what they want, but if you really think about it, we only know what we don’t want, based on what we don’t like. This can be dangerous, because if we don't know what we want, we don't have an end goal and we end up losing [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:28-05:00October 30th, 2012|Education|Comments Off on Assessments Drive Instruction

Don’t Think Band-Aid, Think big Picture

It’s been said that the first step in solving a problem is recognizing that there’s a problem. One of the biggest problems I hear from school districts all over the country is that they don’t have enough time to properly administer, score, interpret, and catalog assessment results that are required [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:28-05:00October 15th, 2012|Education|Comments Off on Don’t Think Band-Aid, Think big Picture

The Case for Social Emotional Learning

If you pay attention, you can see examples of people exhibiting emotional intelligence skills every day. When your boss cuts you a break for being late because he knows you're having a rough week; when you get up an hour early every day to study after a poor performance on [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:28-05:00October 2nd, 2012|Education, Emotional Intelligence|Comments Off on The Case for Social Emotional Learning
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