Instructional meetings

Different teachers, different skills sets, different students, and distinct personalities. If your staff holds regular planning sessions, you understand. Team or department planning meetings create a consistent learning environment, not an identical experience. Simplify the methods to decide your focus for an instructional cycle. Excessive planning and control kill momentum. We usually blame a lack […]

Lost learning time?

How much time did they spend urinating instead of learning? In the elementary grades, I started Back to School Night or the new version Parent Information Night, with a math problem for the parents.  How many school days are in the year? Most did not have the exact answer but were close. The standard year in our […]