Archive for February, 2007

Feb 27 2007

Taking Care of Those Who Take Care

Published by Katie under Leadership

Last month I wrote a post on my LRC blog, which is not to be confused with my LRC website , although they are sort of related. The post arrived after reading a few articles in the NY Times about the increasing troubles in American middle schools. The post was called “The middle road to [...]

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Feb 25 2007

Accessing Learning Opportunities

The Center for Leadership in Education facilitates a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Consortium of educator teams from schools in Northeast Ohio. UDL has become even more relevant to today’s students and the future of public education as we realize the importance of offering student’s multiple representation of content to increase their awareness of [...]

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Feb 24 2007

First Ever Convening of the Center Faculty

Published by Jeff under Leadership

We gathered today in the hopes of determining the nature of the relationship between the Center for Leadership in Education and its faculty. The original idea for a Center Faculty stems from the notion that by tapping the unique talents of a number of people, the Center could offer a wide array of programming.
We began [...]

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Feb 21 2007

Is feedback a four letter word?

Published by Jeff under Assessment

Last month, Dr. Ron Walker from Ashland University told me that feedback is indeed a four letter word, it spells g-r-o-w. That same month, one of my favorite magazines, Fast Company, included an article from a famous business psychologist that claimed that there can be no perfection without feedback. Specifically, the author pointed [...]

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Feb 05 2007

Don’t like the game? Change the rules.

This is not my favorite time of year. THe reason for that is the fact that I drive to the office in the dark and I drive home in the dark. This time of year always reminds me of an episode of Northern Exposure, the late 1980’s television show. Residents of the small [...]

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