A teacher just starts their lesson when a student gets up from their seat, swears at the teacher, and walks out of the room. This behavior seemingly comes out of nowhere. Thirty minutes later, the student comes back into the classroom and sits down as if nothing happened. During lunch duty, a teacher who is monitoring the lunch is surrounded…
Learner-centered leadership, learner-centered instruction, or learner-centered anything is not a bad concept. In fact, school leaders that change their mindset toward being learner-centered will start to make strides toward transforming the school system. The concept of learner-centered is summarized in the idea of a learner-centered ecosystem. But there is a problem with the learner-centered ecosystem. A problem big enough to…
Three years into my career as a teacher, a couple moved into our community to teach at the high school where I worked. Since working at the high school I graduated from, I was always keenly interested in the new people moving into town and how they would fit in. To make a long story short, the couple became good friends…
As you know, I travel through a lot of school buildings in my job as an Executive Director and as a coach. When i walk into a school buisding I am invariably drawn to the outward “relics” that are meant to represent a school’s culture.By relics, I mean vision statements, mission statements, slogans, trophy cases (depending on where they are…