My assertion in Part 1 of this article is that students are more successful when they gain competency with noncognitive skills and executive functions. That students are more likely to gain this competency when they get routine practice employing these skills, not avoiding them. In Part 2 I pointed out that moving students online because […]
Kicking the Can Down the Road I concluded Part 1 of this article stating plainly that students are more successful when they gain competency with noncognitive skills and executive functions. Students are more likely to gain this competency when they get daily practice employing these skills, not avoiding them, within their educational experience. When students get […]
Why Blending Digital and Analog Tools Enhances Student Success There’s an article I recently read that described how schools were planning to use digital capture tools, such as OneNote’s Notebook or Google Keep. The plan is for students to take notes and to use them as a digital binder of sorts. Some of these schools […]
Homeschool parent and nonprofit CEO, Michelle Goldshlag, adopted Organized Binder with her 4th grade son this school year. She sat down to chat with me via zoom to share about homeschooling the first half of the school year. Homeschooling Is Better With Organized Binder Michelle shares about the impact Organized Binder has had on both […]
What is asynchronous, synchronous, and semi-synchronous learning? I was honored to co-author an article with Daniel Bauer from Better Leaders Better Schools. In the article first we explore synchronous, asynchronous, and semi-synchronous online instruction. Next, I share how I blend my online instruction with a "semi-synchronous" approach and Organized Binder. Finally, together we consider each type of instruction from […]
In distance learning, less is more, now more than ever! Like all of you, my family kicked-off the school year in full distance-learning mode. To be perfectly honest, I am not sure how families are managing. We don't feel like we are managing. We just wrapped week 4 and it seems like we keep waiting […]
Harbor High School, in Santa Cruz, CA, is a veteran Organized Binder school. Tracey Runeare is hands down one of the school leaders I respect the most. I love collaborating with her, her admin team, and staff. She is laser focused on making equity a reality and I visit them whenever possible. Recently she was a […]
How do we help students succeed during distance learning? I am fortunate to be a community member in one of Daniel Bauer's masterminds. Most of Danny's masterminds serve school leaders, but our particular group is a collective of educators who are also doing business in the field of education. We call ourselves "edupreneurs." We meet […]
On a recent phone call with Patrice Bain, the teacher and author of Powerful Teaching, she explained how the research that evolved into her first book took place in her classroom. Powerful Teaching, is one of the only education books based on research performed in an actual classroom. On our call, one thing Patrice said […]
This is another must read! I was fortunate to read this book for the first time in graduate school and have kept it in my rotation ever since. Possibly more than any other book, Other People's Children, from Lisa Delpit, encouraged me to design and implement strategies to make my classroom more predicable, and therefore safer, […]
