Donald Gately Ed.D.
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About Learning: “Hey, you had the lighter one”
When mom came back with the bottles, she took Ryan first. Feeling the difference between the weight of the two when I handed Harper to Danielle, my wife said, “Hey, you had the lighter one.” So funny. Continue reading
Posted in learning, Parenting, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged babies, growth mindset, learning, parents
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About Work / Life Balance: So much to learn
It can be difficult to describe the magic of the Ed camp model. It’s liberating to cast off the formalities, restrictions, and passivity of conventional educational contexts (read: SCHOOL) and embrace a mode of learning that elevates choice, participation and sharing. When I’m asked to give an example of the power of EdCamp, I will describe the amazing session that took place this past Saturday on the topic of Work / Life balance. We wish you were there! Continue reading
About cooking: You can eat your mistakes
@DMGately at Nathan’s Famous 4th of July. It was the Fourth of July. I was doing what I love doing in the summertime, using my barbeque smoker to make pulled pork sliders for dinner. I woke up at 4:15am to … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Educational Focus, Leadership, Reflections, Teaching/Learning, Uncategorized
Tagged assessment, cooking, learning
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About middle level teaching: Nobody wants to be the Junior Varsity*
Actions follow our beliefs. If there is one piece of advice that all middle school teachers must follow it is this, “Middle school kids are different, don’t expect to succeed with the same strategies that might work with elementary or high school kids.” Continue reading
About violence and children: What’s a big number?
My daughter is only five years old; she’s in kindergarten. The other day we were watching the news and there was a story about a fire that occurred in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn. Tragically, two people perished in the fire. … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Focus, Leadership, Personal Best, Random Thoughts, Reflections, Uncategorized
Tagged adolescence, children, learning, middle school, students, violence
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Focus, Reflections, Uncategorized
Tagged connected education, learning, twitter
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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. Continue reading
Posted in Educational Focus, Leadership, Reflections, Uncategorized
Tagged assessment, change, learning, mad men, reform
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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 … 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, … Continue reading
Posted in Inside the Middle School, Personal Best, reading, Reflections
Tagged adolescence, Fish in a Tree, learning, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, middle school, Mindset, reading
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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… Continue reading
In the middle of learning - by Donald Gately Ed.D 
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