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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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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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.

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