A collection of professional and personal thoughts and musings rattling in my brain these days. Find time to read Shelly Blake-Plock’s post called “I Don’t Want More Professional Development”.  My favorite line?  “We need a development of human capacity, not an adherence to the rules of our established profession.” Related:  I believe more than ever [...]

Now don’t get me wrong, I read a lot.  Like many other people, however, my reading has shifted from reading fiction to nonfiction, from nonfiction to research papers, from research papers to articles, from articles to blog posts.  It has, in many ways, shifted away from reading for pure pleasure and more toward reading for [...]

Good morning, I’m reaching out to you today in an effort to start a community-based push for more technology (and support) at Stratham Memorial School.  I have blind copied each of your email addresses to respect your privacy, but there about 50 of you who have received this email, including two School Board members, several [...]

We are, perhaps, not surprised to read this report of anomalies on the Washington, DC standardized test scores. (more here, here and here)  Larry Ferlazzo sums up the comments of others in his wonderful post here.  Whenever greed (school officials received bonuses and district officials received fame and publicity) becomes a motivating factor, we should [...]