Category: change
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Don’t Rush Back to Normal
This past week, we’ve heard from several states that school districts will be closed for the remainder of the year. This is another big blow after we have all had to ‘eat the whole elephant’ of learning #remotelearning in such a small window with a need to be effective and to make sure that students…
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Embracing the Opportunity: Making Learning More Personal
Earlier this week, I watched a news report about a mother and her concerns that her autistic son was not getting the support he needed during this time of stay at home learning. She was very specific about her concerns of the time needed to complete assignments, aligning her son’s work with teacher expectations and…
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A New Opportunity – Walk-Thrus in Our Digital Spaces
I’m so happy to see all the posts on social media from principals who are joining classroom discussions between teachers and their classes. It’s heartening to see that this crisis isn’t keeping school leaders from carrying out what I think is one of the true joys of school administration and that is classroom walk thrus…
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Signs You Need a Revolution!
Education is like most professions, full of good people with good intentions and strong desires to be productive and effective. For most professionals, this means finding things that work and ways to replicate success. After all, we all want to be successful and enjoy that feeling over and over. But what does success look like?…
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Upcoming Virtual Learning Day
Last month, I proudly posted that our Board of Education approved West Rowan Middle to pilot Virtual Learning on Inclement Weather days [here – Teach from Home]. Our B.O.E. created an option for teachers to work at home on snow days by making them optional teacher workdays. We extended that thinking and proposed, and they approved,…
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#Edcucon 2017
I had the pleasure of serving on a panel discussion at Educon 2017 on Sustainability in Education. The other panelists were Samuel Abrams [author and researcher/truth teller], Renee Moore [teacher activist and truthteller] and the legendary Deborah Meier. Below is an embed of the panel discussion [thanks to Educon, Chris Lehmann and the student production team for…
Derek L. McCoy 