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Maybe after the emergency learning last spring into the normalized pandemic teaching of this past year your philosophy of education has changed. It is time to revise your philosophy of education. Even educators who don’t feel like their philosophy has… Continue Reading →
Productivity Productivity is often viewed by output alone, but that ignores the input by which the output should be judged. The Harvard Business Review (2014) frames the concept of productivity as a “…focus not on dollars per hour but on labor dollars per product” (p.4). As schools invest dollars to boost productivity the… Continue Reading →
Not everyone knows an EdD well enough to ask them particular questions. I had to acquire much of my academic, writing, and how to work with my dissertation committee on my own. Not everyone knows an EdD well enough to… Continue Reading →
Since March 2020 educators have worried about students falling behind. It has pushed teachers to work past reason, parents to stress about doing the teacher’s job, and left students outside of the traditional classroom. However, a pandemic is a worldwide… Continue Reading →
Right now if you are checking your email, you are seeing all the offers from vendors who want you to purchase their Social-Emotional Learning content (SEL). Many are of high quality and could be very beneficial, but it begs the… Continue Reading →
I stopped using the phrase “unprecedented times” as soon as I could this semester. Because no one wants to hear what they feel in their bones, how novel this situation is, how exhausting, how sustained, and how stressful the unprecedented… Continue Reading →
Before a parent or an educator becomes too emotional in response to pandemic grading, let us consider the situation… Craft an Intentional Perspective “Unconditional positive regard” means an approach that slows us down and considers student /teacher motivation and overall… Continue Reading →
Many communities have been out of the school building since mid-March of 2020. As we approach winter 2020 people are reminiscing about “school.” Is school a place, relationships, or learning? What does school mean to people? Are all stakeholders reminiscing… Continue Reading →
As a summary of the course Theories and Foundations of Child Development from the American College of Education, I share an infographic on the Serious Business of Play for early childhood learning. This course has afforded me a new perspective… Continue Reading →
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