Oct
05
2007
If you are a first-year teacher, new to an assignment or district, please share your experiences here.
Administrators, please also share how you support and assist your new teachers. They are a valuable asset.
Here at The Center, we disuss sustaining practices during the World Café in our Courage to Teach book study. [...]
Aug
20
2007
As the school year begins I want to take moment to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I was thinking a bit about how similar the new school year and New Year really are. Both are times to think about how we arrived at where we are. Both are times to take stock of the [...]
Apr
20
2007
I have come across some interesting articles and posts by educators and organizations who are trying to make sense of this tragedy and to help the younger students understand it. Please follow the links below.
http://www.edutopia.org/php/print.php?id=Art_1875&template=printarticle.php
http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/tb/007/04/18/15.html
http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/articles/00/03/01/06impulse.h13.html?
http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/articles/00/03/01/06impulse.h13.html?
Apr
18
2007
On Monday, April 16, 007, Virginia Tech University suffered a tragedy of monumental proportions, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, the families of the victims, and their entire university community. How do things like this happen? And when they do, why do we blame everyone else but the person [...]
Feb
27
2007
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 [...]
Feb
24
2007
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 [...]