Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Deliberate Optimism

I was recently in Atlanta at the annual Latin American Administrator’s Conference for AdvancED, our U.S. accrediting agency.  Every year I go to this event to attend various meetings, participate in decisions for our region, receive training for leading Accreditation Teams, and attend various workshops.  This year I also turned over the Presidency of both The Association…
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Raised to Teach Differently

I was recently reading an article in the WashingtonPost, where the educational researcher Alfie Kohn, was discussing creativity, beliefs, and the way we teach.   If you have never heard of Dr. Kohn, he is education’s left-wing bad boy.  If there is any voice in education willing to challenge the status quo, it belongs to Alfie.  He hates standardized testing,…
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Assessment for Learning

  We have many areas in which we are going to focus our improvement throughout the year, including the implementation of the Granadino Values Program, Phenomena Experiences in Pre-Primary, Learning in Mathematics, and Language Development in both Spanish and English. One of the main things that we will be looking at this year, with the…
Monday, February 23, 2015

Parenting Without Fear

On Tuesday, February 19th we had a workshop with Pilar Aguirre and Familias en Formación on Parenting Without Fear (“Aprender a educar sin miedo”.)  Among the wealth of advice and information that she provided for us was a detailed explanation of the impact overprotective parents have on the development of their children, and advice on how to…
Thursday, January 15, 2015

The Importance of the Relationship

Each year as I prepare for our recruiting trip for new teachers, I ask a few of our students for a favor.  I ask them to write me a letter to the candidate teachers explaining exactly what they would like in a new teacher.  I ask for a letter from Elementary, a letter from Middle School, and…

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