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Continue reading →: About Connected Leading/Learning: You’re a LEARNER!Everybody has a version of this dream. You’re not prepared to do a speech. You’re supposed to be flying an airplane and you don’t know how to do it. There’s a test and you forgot about it, you didn’t study and you feel like you’re going to fail. These dreams…
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Continue reading →: About September: Welcome Back 2015
Dear Middle School Parents and Students, Welcome to the 2015-16 school year! In just a week and a half we will be back together learning at the happiest place on earth, Jericho Middle School. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you as part of our educational family to…
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Continue reading →: About assessment: Why are they raising their hands?
How do you think our classrooms will look different in 10, 20, 30 years? This post considers a most common classroom practice for formative assessment.
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Continue reading →: About June: The madness!
The month of June is a fraught time for a school leader. There are countless tasks to be completed and deadlines to be met before the end of the school year which is fast approaching. More than once, in the midst of my anxiety, I’ve exclaimed that I need another three weeks…
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Continue reading →: About teaching: So you think you can dance?I’m not a good dancer. I’m not sure why really, I guess I’m just self-conscious about the way I look when I dance. I shouldn’t be this way because I believe in a growth mindset. Why worry about making mistakes or about the way I look? That was the subject…
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Continue reading →: About Reading: Don’t take it for granted!I have been following with great interest a recent series of blog posts by Grant Wiggins about the nature of reading. Wiggins explores the essential question: What exactly is going on in our minds when we read? It’s mysterious really, a “black box” according to Wiggins. In the first post…
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Continue reading →: About Homework (Part II): If it’ll help me learn … I’ll do it
A reflection on my own learning and the role of homework…
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Continue reading →: About Homework: Do you do your homework?
Two months ago I wrote about my One Word for the New Year… It was LEARN. Essentially, I dedicated myself to learning, learning new things and things that are important to my work: Response to Intervention, Classical Music and Spanish. I want to give you a progress report on how…
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Continue reading →: About Love: Mary Theresa Gately
I was 18 years old and at college I’d completed an application to study abroad in Ireland in my junior year. To be selected, there was a panel interview involved as well. I was nervous of course. Sitting across from several professors from the college, the first thing anyone says…
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Continue reading →: About Technology: Never, sometimes, always?
It can be overwhelming to contemplate all the technology that exists in the world to assist us in our work with children. I saw this at a faculty meeting recently. Before the winter break, we had a meeting at which teachers volunteered to share some of the things they are…
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