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Identity
Each of us has a professional identity. What is yours? You may think you are looked upon as a hard working educational technology leader; but your identity, what others think of you, may be very...
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K-12 Cloud Computing: The Private Cloud
Cloud computing is getting a lot of play in the k-12 community and there’s no doubt that there are some wonderful benefits to this model for schools. Web-based software can be the road to 24×7 access...
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Leadership and the Two Handed Set Shot
I’m a tall person and from my earliest years was drafted into the world of basketball. I had a fair amount of success on the court ranging from high school and college teams to various tournaments and...
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An Inconvenient Truth
Below are key elements of school district mission statements from 14 districts in the NY Metropolitan area. It is the mission of the (Name of school) to develop: active, life-long learners curious,...
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The Fun They Had
If you have a few moments, here is a bit of a Holiday gift for you. It was written in 1951 by Issac Asimov for a syndicated newspaper page and later published in” Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine”....
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Transformative Change
“For public education to benefit from the rapidly evolving development of information and communication technology, leaders at every level–school, district, and state–must not only supervise, but...
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La Mancha and the Heart of a Teacher
When I think back to my days in the classroom the most important moments happened when I looked past the hardened sneer of a difficult student to see them as they really were. They were never what they...
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One to One Computing: A Daydream
I closed the cover of my Asus eee, tucked it into my backpack, and headed off to English class. I didn’t eat much for lunch today. I wanted to see the MIT lecture on Mitosis and Miosis because we were...
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Shutting Down the Machine
My last post elicited a passionate response from David Truss advocating that we do more to support young teachers, ANY teachers, for that matter, that take the risks that are involved in transforming...
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Ed Tech Journeys Status
Below, find an excerpt from a chapter of one of my writing projects, “Zen and the Art of Teaching”. “My First Day” takes place in January of 1974. I offer this brief look at the beginning of my...
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The Calling
I’m back after several years of an amazing journey. Welcome my friends. I hope you are all prospering, and that you’re letting your gifts shine bright in this world. There are lot’s of changes...
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whispers from your inner teacher
The classroom is a challenging place, and it’s easy to find yourself discouraged, overwhelmed, and stressed out. You might even think about tossing in the towel now and then. There’s got to be...
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Getting Out of the Way and Blending
The experienced practitioner of Aikido learns to blend with his attacker. Physically, it involves getting out of the way, then ‘blending’ or ‘shadowing’ (looking in the same direction as your attacker...
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Relationships, Relevance, and Rigor: The Keys to Classroom Effectiveness
I agree with Willard Dagget, founder and President of the International Center for Leadership in Education, that the keys to classroom effectiveness are the three R’s…Relationship, Relevance, and...
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The K-12 Classroom Dojo
For the past 12 years I have maintained a practice in Aikido. We learn Aikido in a ‘dojo’ which means “place of the Way”. What would it look like if we structured each of our classrooms like a dojo?...
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The Power of the Spider
From my book: A Path with Heart.. .I was on the phone with my “teacher”. The conversation had moved to an important crossroads, I was learning to open my heart more fully. At that moment, he said...
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The Man of La Mancha and the Heart of a Teacher
When I think back to my days in the classroom some of the most important moments happened when I looked past the hardened sneer or a facade of indifference of a difficult student to see them as they...
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Summer Renewal: The Exit Interview
The school year is winding down. Many of us are saying good-bye to our students, to our colleagues, and to another year in the classroom. For some, the year was long and difficult, for others it may...
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Difficult Students Often Need Us the Most
Sometimes the students who need us the most are the hardest to love. They seem to be at war with themselves and do everything they can to push us away. Their behavior is clearly self-destructive....
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Secret Conversations
Our classrooms are full of secrets. We have ours and our students have theirs. In each of our hearts there are dreams, quiet yearnings, silent fears…and always there are whispered doubts. Great...
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