I see many bloggers posting their “top posts” this time of year. I wasn’t going to share a post of that kind, but once I saw the important theme that emerged from the most-read posts here, I wanted to share. Yes…it may be interesting to see how my writing and thinking as a first-year superintendent have […]
Archives for December 2015
Making Action Research Work
In last week’s post, we started to explore the idea of teachers and leaders as researchers of practice. We learned that educational practitioners have a unique insider perspective and should make research a part of the work. In this week’s post we’ll focus on a five step process you can follow to study, improve and innovate […]
4 Reasons Why Practitioners Should Be Researchers
As teachers and leaders, we don’t often think of ourselves as “researchers.” After all, when we think of research, we think of academic outsiders studying borderline interesting topics and writing long, confusing reports about their discoveries. We don’t typically think of practitioners as doing the work of “researchers.” It shouldn’t be that way. We need […]
Podcasts and A PD Story
With this post, I wanted to share some content posted online recently. My colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, and I published three new podcasts at TLTalkRadio and a blog post on Edutopia. Season 2: Episode 4 – Leadership: The Fuel That Ignites Transformation in Teaching and Learning Last February, we traveled to an Apple What’s Next: Implementing Research […]