2016

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Google, Harvard, and Sesame Street

When I was a Middle School Principal I found all of the rules and expectations to be a bit overwhelming for my students. So, rather than get hung up on teaching them about Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Manual de Convivencia, I reinforced two basic expectations with my students continually: “Be smart. Be nice.” When a…

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The Checklist Childhood

I like days like today when I get the chance to sit quietly over lunch and read. I work my way through a lot of information this way, and find myself making some interesting connections. Today, among articles for light and darkness in architecture and a 3D printed steel bicycle, I also watched a TED Talk by…

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Goal to Be Greater

I subscribe to a number of Twitter feeds, mostly educational, to try to keep up with the ever-changing world of teaching and learning. I get tweets from the New York Times, Alfie Kohn, Education Nation, Lee Crocket, Edutopia, EdWeek Teacher, Lifehack, Sir Ken Robinson, and any number of other sources. In the past two weeks, I have…

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Our Deepest Fear

As I begin my final year at Granadino, I have been thinking about what I would like to begin the year with in my Blog. What tone do I want to set for the year? Where do you start when looking at the end? Well, I just returned from visiting a bunch of pre-primary and primary classes…

Thursday, May 12, 2016

The Best Way to Improve Teaching

I was reading an article recently that was titled “The Best Way to Improve Teaching.” The title caught my attention instantly. After all, who doesn’t want to know the best way to improve at what they do? The article was a discussion of work done by Charlotte Danielson who researches and writes about teacher evaluation and how ineffective…

Monday, February 8, 2016

Bruce Springsteen Stayin’ Alive

Every year at this time I have to leave the warmth and beauty of Manizales to head into Northern winter to recruit teachers for the coming school year. While I do enjoy the interviews and find myself fortunate to be able to promote our school, city, and country, it is never an easy trip. The cold, the…

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About ISK:

I have the good fortune of being the Director of the International School of Krakow, a wonderful, multicultural school in the South of Poland. At ISK we believe that our students should be empowered to be creative and critical thinkers, encouraged to discover and pursue their individual passions and talents in a supportive and caring community, because regardless of where they are coming from – or heading to – all of our students have the capacity and responsibility to contribute positively to an ever changing world.