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Monday, 9 December 2024

+ 2021
By Kim Marshall
08-Jun-21
Principals know they’re not seeing everything, but because there’s never enough time, they act as if they’re omniscient. “The key challenge for school leaders,” says Rodberg, “is to know that our information is limited and to ask… What am I missing?” ..more
By Kim Marshall
25-May-21
Research shows that the process of critiquing their peers’ essays helped students notice and correct problems in their own writing. By receiving and providing high-level feedback targeting similar problems, students are motivated to perform better. ..more
By Kim Marshall
11-May-21
Many school leaders turn away from conflict and never realize its potential for promoting growth rather than disorder. When they don’t step up, problems fester unresolved, including mediocre and ineffective teaching, racial microaggressions, and systemic inequities. ..more
By Kim Marshall
13-Apr-21
Including students in shaping what will be assessed by co-constructing success criteria has proven an effective way to improve student writing, according to Jennifer Gonzalez. “It’s essentially backward planning with students for success.” ..more
By Kim Marshall
30-Mar-21
Misinformation is difficult to fight once it’s out in the digital wild. The authors of an article in Behavioral Scientist summarized here suggest a novel approach for preventing the spread of misinformation: prebunking. ..more
By Kim Marshall
15-Mar-21
In this article summarized by Kim Marshall, the authors report on their study of students who don’t raise their hands during whole-class discussions. The way teachers orchestrate class discussions, as well as student-to-student dynamics, can influence patterns of participation. ..more
By Kim Marshall
03-Mar-21
Teaching with some students in the classroom and some remote is “the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine," according to Caitlin Tucker. The answer, she says, is designing lessons that allow the teacher to focus on one set of students at a time. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
16-Feb-21
Being a curricular gatekeeper is especially challenging in the current era. In this article, Wayne Journell insists that teachers have always had a responsibility “to turn classrooms into spaces where reason and inquiry trump ignorance and hyperbole." ..more
By Kim Marshall
02-Feb-21
Wiggins has found that a three-level feedback system Publishable/Revisable/Redo encourages students to work hard on revising their writing assignments and making significant improvements, without requiring extensive grading or commenting on her part. ..more
By Kim Marshall
19-Jan-21
In this article in Mathematics Teacher summarized by Kim Marshall, Emily Bonner suggests five “cornerstones” of culturally responsive mathematics teaching: knowledge, communication, relationships and trust, reflection and revision, and power. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
06-Jan-21
“It’s looking as though all schools should be able to open fully in the fall,” says Jal Mehta of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “The pandemic is giving us an opportunity to make a pivot that we should have made long ago.” Here are some thoughts on how we might do it. ..more
+ 2020
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
23-Dec-20
The authors of this article summarized by Kim Marshall say they’ve noticed an increased focus on content in classrooms during the pandemic – more social studies, science, and the arts. They believe it is a healthy correction from the previous test-driven focus on reading and math. ..more
By Kim Marshall
08-Dec-20
Kim Marshall summarizes an article about a powerful exercise for engaging students in an authentic project, getting them thinking about important issues, fostering collaboration, and developing persuasive writing and presentation skills. ..more
By Kim Marshall
25-Nov-20
Kim Marshall summarizes an interview with Salman Khan, the founder and chief content provider of Khan Academy, a platform used by almost 100 million students a year in more than 190 countries and 46 languages. ..more
By Kim Marshall
11-Nov-20
In this article in Principal, Carol Larson and Tyrone Martinez-Black say that too many schools make the mistake of identifying a problem--i.e., inequitable outcomes for English learners--and going straight to action planning. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
24-Oct-20
In this summary of an Education Week article by Catherine Gewertz, Kim Marshall offers a number of suggestions on how to reduce screen time for students. Teachers need to be critical consumers of technology. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Oct-20
Kim Marshall summarizes an article by authors who applied the Pomodoro principle to an inquiry unit on the 2020 protests, starting with an introduction, then building background knowledge, then assessing students’ work and thinking about applications in eight 25-minute learning experiences. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
30-Sep-20
In a Thomas B. Fordham Institute paper, Adam Tyner and Sarah Kabourek argue that background knowledge is more important than generic reading skills (e.g., identifying the main idea) in developing students’ reading comprehension. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
15-Sep-20
“Shifting to online teaching can feel overwhelming,” says Pennsylvania teacher/ learning design coach Adam Lavallee in this Global Online Academy article. He suggests six ways of changing teaching to make the best use of the remote environment. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
15-Jul-20
In this Edutopia article, California teacher Madeleine Rogin says she really misses watching her kindergarten students play. How can young children’s play be incorporated in remote learning? Rogin has some concrete suggestions. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
18-Jun-20
Racism: “a system of advantage based on race that is created and maintained by an interplay between psychological factors and sociopolitical factors… so deeply embedded within U.S minds and U.S. society that it is virtually impossible to escape.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
22-May-20
In this Education Gadfly article, Michael Petrilli suggests guidelines for opening elementary schools in the fall, drawing on advice from the CDC, schools in other countries that have successfully reopened, and K-12 policymakers. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
22-Apr-20
In this New Yorker article, Michael Specter describes the scientific events that have shaped the career of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Since 1984, he’s been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and he’s currently at the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
08-Apr-20
In this Edutopia article, Sarah Gonser reports on strategies she curated from interviews with teachers about how they stay connected with their students during school closures, from showing that you miss students to having them check in on their classmates. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Mar-20
In this article in Teaching Tolerance, Philadelphia high-school teachers Clarice Brazas and Charlie McGeehan (she is black, he is white) share what they learned about antiracism work when they interviewed teachers around the U.S. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
17-Feb-20
In this article in School Administrator, leadership consultant Sarah Fiarman and Tracey Benson (University of North Carolina/Charlotte) share uncomfortable moments they experienced as school leaders. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Feb-20
In this Kappa Delta Pi Record article, Joel Westheimer (University of Ottawa) says schools have always tried to instill moral values, good behavior, and character in their students. But what exactly does that mean? How can today’s schools help kids to “acquire the essential knowledge, dispositions, and skills for effective democratic citizenship to flourish?” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Jan-20
In this Learning Forward article, consultant/instructional coach Sarah Young defines culturally responsive coaching: it addresses differences between the coach, the teacher, and students; the role of social identity; and the social-political context in which the teacher is working. ..more
+ 2019
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Dec-19
"My ‘may I ask you a question?’ soon became my shorthand for ‘may I have some space to wonder about these things that fascinate me?’ If the teacher was in a good mood, this sometimes opened up new learning for everyone in the room." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Dec-19
Quinn and Stewart note that many white educators are uncomfortable discussing race in their classrooms but are increasingly called upon to do so because race has been a hot topic in recent years, and incidents of racial harassment in schools have spiked since 2016. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
13-Nov-19
Students who enter school with more information and words find reading easier and more enjoyable, read more, get more out of classroom discussions, and surge ahead, while the opposite often happens with students who enter school with less background knowledge. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
01-Nov-19
According to a study conducted among students who were with the same teacher for a second year in Grades 3–5, repeat student-teacher matches “allow teachers to reallocate time and effort away from getting to know their students to tasks that directly increase student learning." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
17-Oct-19
“It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind – and the world – as it is,” says associate editor Matt Huston in this article in Psychology Today, reviewed by Kim Marshall. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Oct-19
“What’s important about this isn’t the sensationalism of a banned book," says Mary Keeling, president of the American Association of School Librarians. "The importance is our freedom in a democratic society to listen to and read and think the ideas we want to think.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
04-Sep-19
“Student engagement in school is fundamental to positive educational and life outcomes, including learning, achievement, graduation, and persistence in higher education,” say Kristy Cooper, Tara Kintz, and Andrew Miness (Michigan State University) in this American Journal of Education article summarized by Kim Marshall. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
18-Jul-19
“In free societies,” writes Daniel Willingham, “the ability to think critically is viewed as a cornerstone of individual civic engagement and economic success. We may disagree about which content students should learn, but we at least agree that, whatever they end up learning, students ought to think critically about it.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
20-Jun-19
Kim Marshall summarizes an article in Educational Researcher by Rebekka Darner, who believes that science denial is “an enormous barrier to educating a science-informed citizenry” and “a threat to our democracy.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Jun-19
Kim Marshall summarizes an article in Mathematics Teacher in which math educators Anjali Deshpande and Shannon Guglielmo report on four teaching moves that they have found to maximize student motivation and foster productive mindsets . ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
22-May-19
In this article in Leaderboard: Michigan Association of School Boards, Kim Marshall suggests updates to erroneous beliefs that persist among some educators and stakeholders – that intelligence and talent are fixed at birth, for example. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
10-May-19
In this Educational Leadership article, Jill Harrison Berg cites research showing that students of color perform better with teachers who look like them. However, educators of color are only 20% of the teaching workforce. In the short term, all educators can learn from the characteristics that make teachers of color effective. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
24-Apr-19
In this Kappan article, school counselor/author/therapist/parent Phyllis Fagell says many challenges she faced as a young adolescent in the 1980s were similar to those of today’s middle-school students, but three things are radically different for young adolescents today. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Apr-19
In this article in Educational Leadership, leadership coach and former principal Shane Safir explains that the concept of high support and high expectations applies equally to principals working with colleagues as to teachers working with students. Based on the work of Matt Alexander and Jessica Huang, she suggests four “warm demander” principles. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
22-Mar-19
In an interview with Rafael Heller summarized by Kim Marshall, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa shares recent findings of the Delphi panel—a group of experts in neuroscience, psychology, and education that was formed more than a decade ago to build and support teachers’ pedagogical knowledge. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
01-Mar-19
Kim Marshall says that when he visits classroom with the principals he coaches, he sees lots of effective teaching (Level 3 and 4 on a rating scale), very little that’s really bad (Level 1), but some mediocre practices (Level 2) – for example, low-rigor worksheets, teachers calling only on students who raise their hands, and failing to answer students’ unspoken question, Why are we learning this? ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Feb-19
In this Educational Leadership article, California fifth-grade teacher Kyle Redford says many digital games and apps have been “disappointing, distracting, or time-wasters.” But there’s one area of technology that she believes has fulfilled its promise. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
06-Feb-19
Despite significant progress in K-12 achievement, college and graduate school enrollment, and science, sports, and leadership, there’s a troubling rise in depression and anxiety and decline in confidence among girls, especially as they leave elementary school. Why? ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
01-Feb-19
In an article summarized by Kim Marshall in Exceptional Children, Michael Coyne and five co-authors ask whether the widening vocabulary gap between students who enter school with reading advantages and those who don’t can be neutralized. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
18-Jan-19
In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Jane Halonen and Dana Dunn say that high-involvement classroom strategies are beneficial for students but don’t have to result in teacher burnout. They offer a few helpful approaches. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Jan-19
“A large, fundamental mistake,” says Maryanne Wolf "...is the assumption that reading is natural to human beings and that it will simply emerge ‘whole cloth’ like language when the child is ready.” In fact, she says, reading is an “unnatural cultural invention,” barely 6,000 years old. ..more
+ 2018
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Dec-18
“If you want to know what’s really going on instructionally and culturally in your school, go to the real place," writes Kim Marshall. In other words, observe lessons and teacher team meetings. Stay in touch with day-to-day teaching and learning. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
06-Dec-18
In this article in 4QMTeaching, Massachusetts high-school curriculum coordinator Gary Shiffman describes how a fellow teacher’s students froze when given this essay prompt: What’s the most important cause of the American Civil War? Why were the students stymied? ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
28-Nov-18
“In a profession long marked by an egalitarian ethos,” say Cheung, Stone, Little, and Reinhardt, “in which colleagues think of themselves as belonging to the same level in the organizational hierarchy, giving a special role to some teachers can easily lead to tension among peers." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
02-Nov-18
In this report from Getting Smart/XQ Institute, Tom Vander Ark, Mary Ryerse, and co-authors present a blueprint for competency-based education. “Students who are deeply engaged in their own learning and fully prepared for all that the future has to offer,” they say, have the following characteristics... ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Oct-18
In this article in American Educator, Diane August (American Institutes for Research) summarizes seven principles representing the current research consensus on teaching English language learners. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Oct-18
“Not teaching students the fundamentals of digital forensics,” writes Peter Adams, “puts them at an unfair disadvantage as they contend with a misinformation landscape that is increasingly tricky to navigate.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Oct-18
In this article in Phi Delta Kappan, Kim Marshall argues that school-based sex education is an urgent priority. “But if educators are going to be the ones teaching sex ed,” says Marshall, “they need to get it right, and their track record is not encouraging.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
27-Sep-18
Crafting classroom inquiries that get at content through questions is the method recommended in this article reviewed by Kim Marshall. The first step in shaping a classroom inquiry is for teachers to identify an overarching, compelling question for a curriculum unit, to grab students’ attention and launch them into making evidence-based arguments. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
25-Aug-18
In this article in Education Week Teacher, Arkansas teacher Justin Minkel notes an important “disconnect” in U.S. schools: 80 percent of K-12 teachers are white, while 51 percent of students are children of color. “White teachers like me have to love our students of color enough to learn how to teach them well,” says Minkel. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
11-Aug-18
In an article in Education Update summarized by Kim Marshall, authors Alyssa Gallagher and Kami Thordarson list the characteristics of what they call “design-inspired leadership,” contrasting this style with traditional leadership, which is leader- or teacher-centered. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
28-Jul-18
According to Suzanne Choo, students should be equipped to critically evaluate diverse values, explore ethical dilemmas, and engage with issues of global injustice. Literature provides a powerful gateway to such ethical encounters with lived experiences of individuals at various times and places around the world. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
20-Jun-18
In this Thomas B. Fordham Institute white paper, Melody Arabo, Jonathan Budd, Shannon Garrison, and Tabitha Pacheco (all frontline K-12 educators) analyzed online tools for improving K-12 reading and writing skills. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
07-Jun-18
In this Education Week article, Michael Petrilli (Thomas B. Fordham Institute) says he’s concerned about “the lack of common sense and evidence-based consensus” in the ongoing school-discipline debate in Washington. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
02-May-18
In this Edutopia article, Kim Marshall and Douglas Reeves say there was good reason for the pushback on using student test scores, value-added measures (VAM), and student learning objectives (SLOs) as part of teacher evaluation. Design flaws have contributed to the widespread consensus that the U.S. needs a different approach to teacher accountability. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Apr-18
In this article in Phi Delta Kappan, the authors insist that instructional coaching embodies three key characteristics of effective PD: It’s ongoing (compared to one-shot workshops); it takes place in teachers’ daily workplace; and coaches have content-specific expertise that is of great value to teachers. ..more
In this article in American Educator>, Linda Friedrich, Rachel Bear, and Tom Fox (National Writing Project) share their program for developing persuasive writing, which they sum up as dialogue, not debate. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
04-Apr-18
Issues such as climate change, vaccinating children, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are on students’ minds and have great pedagogical potential. These are socio-scientific issues ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
30-Mar-18
In this article in The Principal Center, former principal Justin Baeder weighs in on the perennial issue of work-life balance for school leaders. “Evidence is starting to emerge that stress isn’t just endemic to leadership,” he says, “– it’s an epidemic." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
23-Mar-18
"No single assessment or piece of student work can provide educators, students, parents, and the public with information about what students know and can do," say a group of 19 education organizations and assessment experts, who list ten qualities that a system of assessments should ideally contain. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
07-Mar-18
Criticism of tests is mainly aimed at high-stakes standardized exams, which aren't the most important; interim and on-the-spot assessments have a far greater impact on teaching and learning. Marshall's concern is that the testing-is-bad movement will distract educators from the power of lower-key assessments to address three troubling equity issues: ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
22-Feb-18
Narter needed to do more one-to-one conferencing with students - but he knew that just wasn't going to happen: "150 students x 15 minutes per essay conference = no life and a sore hand." He finally found a solution. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Feb-18
Rosenberg, Daigneau, and Galvez suggest that school and district leaders should do an inventory of the amount of time that "shared-content" teacher teams (those teaching the same or very similar content) have for collaboration. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
02-Feb-18
In this article in Education Week, Stephen Sawchuk reports that most school sex education programs have very little content on sexual harassment and consent in relationships. This is a puzzling omission, say some educators. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Jan-18
In this Harvard Business Review article, organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich says that people with good self-awareness are more confident and creative, communicate more effectively, build stronger relationships, make sounder decisions, and are less likely to lie, cheat, and steal. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
13-Jan-18
“What if today’s connected youth are not well served by spending school hours in front of screens?” asks the lead-in to a pair of articles in Education Next by Daniel Scoggin (GreatHearts Charter Schools) and Tom Vander Ark (Getting Smart). ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Jan-18
In this article in Phi Delta Kappan, Michelle Navarre Cleary (DePaul University) analyzes the reasons for plagiarism and suggests remedies for each one. "Most students don’t plagiarize intentionally," says Cleary. "They’re in a hurry, cut corners, and don’t take the time to cite sources." ..more
+ 2017
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
22-Dec-17
Hess describes how as a beginning social studies teacher in a large high school, she was told “in a nice but firm way that it was my job to learn how to lead high-quality discussions of important historical and contemporary questions and issues…" ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Dec-17
People know that behavior can be affected by unconscious attitudes and stereotypes; they just don’t think the problem applies to them. “But we do have implicit biases,” says Gooblar, “ – every one of us – and as faculty members, it’s imperative we try to take them into account.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
07-Dec-17
“It turns out there’s a keystone habit in schools,” say former principal Kim Marshall and high-school teacher Dave Marshall (father and son). “Principals making short, frequent, unannounced classroom visits, each followed by a face-to-face coaching conversation. This routine has a surprisingly large impact on many aspects of teaching and learning. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
29-Nov-17
In this Kappan article, Gislaine Ngounou (Phi Delta Kappa International) and Nancy Gutierrez (New York City Leadership Academy) say that to undo racial inequities in schools, educators need to engage in difficult conversations about how race affects a number of factors. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
09-Nov-17
“Okay, people,” the teacher said, louder this time. “Let’s keep it down.” Now it was a game. Someone needed to visit the pencil sharpener. And another person. More conversations. “And then I yelled,” says Gonzalez. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
26-Oct-17
In this article in AMLE Magazine, Anita Stewart McCafferty says she realized several years ago that in her middle-school and university teaching, she was asking lots of What, Why, How come, and So what questions, but rarely What if…? ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Oct-17
There are a lot of cooks in the kitchen. At least 66 different educators work with each student through the grades, and that doesn’t include pullout and push-in teachers, administrators, athletic coaches, nurses, counselors, custodians, cafeteria attendants, security officers, tutors... ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
12-Oct-17
In this article in English Journal, Danielle Lillge and Diana Dominguez suggest ways to successfully launch a young-adult novel with high-school students. Here’s how a teacher handled the opening lesson on the novel Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
04-Oct-17
In this article in Independent School, teacher/author Lauren Porosoff suggests four ways of tapping in-school resources for PD: The Workshop, The Council, The Toolbox Share, and The Bring-Back. School leaders can use all four of these formats to orchestrate high-quality professional development meetings. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
27-Sep-17
“In recent years, cognitive psychologists have been comparing retrieval practice with other methods of studying – strategies like review lectures, study guides, and re-reading texts. And what they’re finding is that nothing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Sep-17
In this Cult of Pedagogy article, Jennifer Gonzalez claims there’s a common factor with the most stressed-out teachers: their administrator. "Too many administrators are tolerating, or creating, unhealthy working conditions. Administrators may have forgotten what it’s like to be a teacher.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
09-Aug-17
In this New York Times Education Life article, Rachel Toor (Eastern Washington University/Spokane) suggests that students getting ready to write their college essay should picture where it will be read. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
20-Jul-17
“New leaders are often surprised and disappointed by the realities of administrative life,” says Allison Vaillancourt. “Missteps are easy to make, and you can be assured everyone will be taking notes when you stumble. Here are some things to keep in mind. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
07-Jul-17
In this Education Gadfly article, the authors affirm that student engagement is a key factor in reducing the number of students who fail and drop out. What keeps students engaged? Engaging teachers, engaging subject matter, some specific instructional strategies, students’ intrinsic motivation to learn, peers, and extracurricular activities and sports. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
21-Jun-17
In this article in Educational Researcher, the authors draw on their “eye-opening” video analysis of 8th-grade mathematics classes in the U.S. and other high-achieving countries, including Japan. They found markedly better instructional practices in several other countries, and noticed that Japan had a built-in system for improving teaching “gradually and steadily over time.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
08-Jun-17
In this article in Literacy Today, consultant Emily Chiariello weighs the pros and cons of teaching literary “classics” in secondary schools when there are plenty of contemporary works of literature that are just as worthy and much more relevant to today’s students. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
30-May-17
Until we see what students can articulate in writing, we don’t know what they comprehend—and on some level, neither do they. In this Educational Leadership article, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Stephen Chiger insist that to strengthen our students as readers, the place to start is with their writing. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
24-May-17
Suzanne Sannwald puts herself in the shoes of students and how they’ll relate to the library’s physical space, personnel, instructions, website, and search parameters: is everything accessible, usable, findable, credible, valuable, useful, and desirable? ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
18-May-17
“When we explode grading myths and establish constructive policies,” Douglas Reeves argues, “the results are immediate. Reduction in failures, improvements in discipline, high levels of student engagement, and dramatic gains in teacher morale can be observed in months, not years.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
10-May-17
In this article in Principal Leadership, John Gratto (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) has ten suggestions for how principals can escape the endless paperwork, e-mails, and “got a minute?” interruptions in the office so they can focus on the core work of the principalship ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
26-Apr-17
“The practical implications of ability grouping are profound. Ability grouping policies and practices affect students’ experiences in school, including the courses they take, the curricula they receive, the peers with whom they learn, and the teachers who provide instruction.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Apr-17
Bill Gates and others argue that coding is a new literacy, as important as reading and math. Some countries are jumping on the bandwagon, including the U.K., which in 2014 launched a requirement that every student learn to program. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
12-Apr-17
“Dyslexic students can be found in every classroom,” says Fernette Eide, “although many may not be formally identified as such. Teachers have tremendous potential to affect these students at a time when they are at greatest risk for low self-esteem and underachievement.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Apr-17
In this article adapted from his new book, Reach, Adam Molinsky says most people aren’t crazy about getting critical feedback, and giving it is often an uncomfortable and stressful exercise. But feedback is essential, says Molinsky, and he offers these pointers. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
28-Mar-17
In this American School Board Journal article, Kim Marshall challenges school board members and superintendents to ask some tough questions about their teacher-evaluation process. Are almost all teachers getting good to excellent ratings while supervisors privately acknowledge that mediocre and ineffective practices continue in classrooms? ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
08-Mar-17
In this article in Theory Into Practice, the authors say that for professional development to truly improve teaching and learning, five elements need to be in place: content focus, active learning, sustained duration, collective participation, and alignment. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
25-Feb-17
“Surrounding students with messages that they have the ability to learn is at the core of closing the achievement gap,” says author/consultant Jon Saphier in this Kappan article, summarized by Kim Marshall. "Teachers must convey their belief to students through how they handle everyday events" ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
07-Feb-17
“Despite the tremendous political capital, money, and time that educators, state officials, and policymakers have spent on reforming teacher-evaluation systems,” say the authors of a National Council on Teacher Quality white paper, “states have been running in place with no evidence of real change with regard to the distribution of final evaluation ratings.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
01-Feb-17
Teachers may conclude that to have true leadership power, they need to leave the classroom and become administrators. Killion and her colleagues make the case for a more-ambitious definition of teacher leadership that has real impact on teaching and learning without leaving the classroom. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
26-Jan-17
Summarizing an Education Update article by Alexandria Neason, Kim Marshall reviews the research on the impact of homework, which is decidedly mixed. “We still can’t prove it’s effective,” said education professor Cathy Vatterott. “The research is flawed and idiosyncratic.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
12-Jan-17
“Students aren’t the only ones who need more time to learn,” says Eileen Merritt of Arizona State University in this Kappan article summarized by Kim Marshall; “teachers also need more and better time for learning and planning.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Jan-17
Kim Marshall summarizes the findings of a Review of Educational Research article in which the authors review a century of research on grading practices. Grades convey important information, they are multidimensional, they have a subjective element... ..more
+ 2016
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
15-Dec-16
In this Brookings Evidence Speaks paper, Grover “Russ” Whitehurst takes a critical look at the “soft skills” being embraced by many U.S. schools, where social-emotional learning is increasingly used as one measure of school success. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
07-Dec-16
“Student engagement in school is fundamental to positive educational and life outcomes, including learning, achievement, graduation, and persistence in higher education,” according to the authors of an American Journal of Education article. “By contrast, disengagement can be a precursor to negative outcomes, including low achievement, social and emotional withdrawal, and dropping out.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
30-Nov-16
When literacy specialists finish assessing a student, a parent or administrator often asks, What level is he? Does she have a learning difficulty? At such moments, she says, it’s important to gently “provide a complete portrayal of the processes, strengths, and weaknesses of an emerging or developing reader.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
25-Nov-16
In this Tools for Teaching article, classroom management guru Fred Jones addresses a perennial teacher dilemma: how to respond when students who are being held accountable talk back. He contends it’s a cardinal error to try to push back on student backtalk. ..more
In this Educational Leadership article reviewed by Kim Marshall, David Sadker (American University) and Melissa Koch (Anita Borg Institute) share insights on gender equity... ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Nov-16
In this Education Week article summarized by Kim Marshall, Illinois instructional coach Lisa Westman acknowledges that differentiation is challenging but says there are several myths that make it seem more difficult than it needs to be. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
27-Oct-16
“Psychologists and educational scientists seem to converge on the notion that student involvement is key to successful learning,” according to this article summarized by Kim Marshall. “Despite their appealing nature, controversy remains as to whether and when inquiry-based methods promote student learning.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
20-Oct-16
Issues like evolution, climate change, racism, LGBTQ, and the current presidential campaign are tricky territory for teachers. It’s tempting to share our views – “Being purely neutral on racism, sexism, religious persecution, bullying, and the leadership of our country comes across as inert and impotent, and we are neither,” says Wormeli. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Oct-16
Sometimes, when we’re doing work that isn’t in synch with how we feel, we have to put on our professional game face. That effort is known among psychologists as “emotional labor” – remaining energetic and upbeat despite it all. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
28-Sep-16
“The brains of adolescents are notoriously more receptive to short-term rewards and peer approval,” says Amanda Ripley in this New York Times article summarized by Kim Marshall. But young people are also very attuned to autonomy and social justice. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
21-Sep-16
Kim Marshall summarizes an article in Education Week in which Madeline Will shares five free classroom resources for teaching and discussing this year’s presidential election. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Sep-16
In this report from the American Psychological Association summarized by Kim Marshall, Joan Lucariello and nine colleagues synthesize key psychological principles and explain their implications for PreK-12 educators. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
31-Aug-16
In this article in Educational Leadership, consultant Rick Wormeli remembers how hard he worked as a middle-school teacher to learn the names of all 185 new students in the days right after Labor Day and offers some great advice. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
15-Aug-16
“Simply providing one-to-one assistance is not sufficient to ensure progress on complex tasks such as learning to read and write,” insist a group of researchers in an article summarized by Kim Marshall from Reading Research Quarterly. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
27-Jul-16
In this article in Education Update, Laura Varlas says all too many students do well on the ACT and SAT, but when they get to college, they can’t do the work. Why? The main problem is reading. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Jul-16
Kim Marshall summarizes an article in which the authors argue that "teachers and teacher educators [should] take up different habits of mind and consider how to support the meaningful participation of students who come to us with an array of literacies, which may or not include facility with written academic literacy." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
02-Jul-16
In this Research for Better Teaching article, author/consultant Jon Saphier and Massachusetts superintendent Pia Durkin say a key missing link in school improvement is the effective supervision and evaluation of principals. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
16-Jun-16
In an article summarized by Kim Marshall, Erin Burns, a North Carolina high-school teacher and turnaround team leader, shares her insights on habits that can stand in the way of teachers’ effectiveness. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
07-Jun-16
"Not unlike other professionals devoted to nurture, such as doctors, teachers are measured – and measure themselves – against an idealized image of excellence that involves incessant work," says Christopher Doyle in this Education Week article. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
24-May-16
In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Kevin Gannon (Grand View University) reflects on what he’s learned taking on administrative roles. Almost all of it applies to K-12 leadership. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
13-May-16
In this Educational Leadership article, evaluation expert Charlotte Danielson says the time-consuming, top-down, bureaucratic nature of teacher evaluation in many schools is “undermining the very professionalism that’s essential to creating positive learning environments for students.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
26-Apr-16
Why give students pre-assessments? ask Thomas Guskey and Jay McTighe in an article published in Educational Leadership summarized by Kim Marshall. Notwithstanding their potential benefits, pre-assessments can have numerous downsides. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
20-Apr-16
Kim Marshall summarizes a Kappan article, in which Carla Finkelstein (Towson University) examines the delicate process of establishing trust with teachers and the many reasons for resistance to being “helped” by an instructional coach. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Apr-16
In this New Yorker article, Maria Konnikova reports on resilience – for example, a boy with an alcoholic mother and absent father who walked into school every day with a smile on his face and a fake sandwich in his bag. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Apr-16
In this article in Educational Leadership, assessment expert Dylan Wiliam reports the startling research finding that students often learn nothing from the comments and grades their teachers write on their papers. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
31-Mar-16
In this Edutopia article, Pennsylvania teacher Brett Vogelsinger says that for several years he’s started his ninth-grade English classes with a poem – among them, poems by Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Rumi, Basho, Shakespeare. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
23-Mar-16
In this paper from the Australian Society for Evidence-Based Teaching, Shaun Killian presents a number of well-researched keys to teaching and learning, including clear lesson goals, checking for understanding, practice, summarizing, etc. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
16-Mar-16
In this article in Kappan, former ELA teacher Nancy Gardner and math teacher Nicole Smith argue that the Common Core standards form a natural bridge between the seemingly disparate subject areas of English language arts and math. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
09-Mar-16
Kim Marshall summarizes the key points of an article by Mary Clement (Berry College), who offers these tips for retaining rookie teachers, 41 percent of whom leave the profession within the first five years. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
02-Mar-16
In this article summarized by Kim Marshall, psychologist/consultants Robert Evans and Michael Thompson say that school leaders they’re working with report an increase in problem parents, including a small minority who engage in what can only be described as adult-to-adult bullying. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
24-Feb-16
Secondary-school students’ cellphone obsession keeps them from paying attention in school, says Sarah McKibben in this article in Education Update. So should schools ban cellphones? That’s one option, but students’ long-term development may be better served by moving them toward self-regulation. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
17-Feb-16
The 2015 publication of the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages has been a jolt for many foreign-language teachers with its emphasis on college and career preparation, critical thinking, creativity, and the collaborative interplay between language, culture, and communication. ..more
Kim Marshall summarizes an article in AMLE Magazine in which Ruby Payne offers suggestions on how schools should handle students enrolling in the middle of the year, some of whom have been uprooted from their apartments in the middle of the night. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Feb-16
According to a recent poll, many American teachers are feeling disempowered, disrespected, and ignored by policymakers and legislators. In this article summarized by Kim Marshall, the author argues that educators need to be strategic in how they present their concerns. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
27-Jan-16
In this Usable Knowledge article summarized by Kim Marshall, the author explores the all-too-common dynamic of a student struggling with a math problems, giving up, and saying: “I just can’t get this. I’m not a math person.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
13-Jan-16
“Group activities allow students to learn from each other," state the authors of this study summarized by Kim Marshall. However, there’s a lot of homework copying and outright cheating on tests. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
06-Jan-16
In a New York Times article summarized by Kim Marshall, Tara Parker-Pope recommends a series of helpful online homework and study aids. ..more
By Kim Marshall
29-Dec-16
Kim Marshall, an experienced teacher and administrator, boils down a recent article on school leadership. This week, Mr. Marshall revisits some do's and don'ts for the recruitment season. ..more
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By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
16-Dec-15
Kim Marshall summarizes an article by Frank Furedi in The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he examines the trend whereby many U.S. college professors believe that digital devices have made today’s students so distracted, fragmented, and unfocused that they can’t be expected to read books all the way through. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
02-Dec-15
“All over the country there are schools and organizations trying to come up with new ways to cultivate character,” writes David Brooks in a column summarized for us by Kim Marshall. “The ones I’ve seen that do it best, so far, are those that cultivate intense, thick community." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Nov-15
Kim Marshall offers a summary of an Educational Leadership article in which author/consultant Steven Levy makes the case for taking data use beyond test scores and getting students to own the process, collecting and analyzing pertinent information and setting their own goals. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
11-Nov-15
Kim Marshall summarizes the findings from an Educational Leadership article in which Rob Traver describes how a teacher and a teacher team used data and SMART goals to improve teaching and learning. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Nov-15
Kim Marshall highlights the key points of a paper titled How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning, in which the authors urge us to “focus on getting information out of students’ heads.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
21-Oct-15
“Why do so many introverts look back on high school as the worst time of their lives – and why do we accept this reality as normal and ‘OK’?” ask Susan Cain (author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking) and Emily Klein (Montclair State University) in this article in Independent School. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
13-Oct-15
Kim Marshall highlights the key points of this this Educational Leadership article, in which Thomas Brown (Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders) summarizes recent findings on ADHD. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
30-Sep-15
In this Harvard Business Review article, Sarah Cliffe interviews Brandeis University professor Andy Molinsky about his research on dealing with cultural differences without violating one’s sense of self. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
24-Sep-15
Kim Marshall reviews an article in The Atlantic in which Eric Liu discusses and suggests updates to E.D. Hirsch’s 1987 list of 5,000 names, phrases, dates, and concepts that every educated American should know. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
17-Sep-15
U.S. students’ writing skills leave much to be desired: on the 2012 NAEP assessments, only 30 percent of eighth and twelfth graders were proficient or above. The new ELA standards put writing front and center and are part of a concerted effort to improve those dismal figures. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Aug-15
Kim Marshall reviews an Edutopia article in which Maia Heyck-Merlin (author of The Together Teacher) suggests seven steps to help teachers organize their lives for success, and keep their sanity. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Aug-15
Kim Marshall summarizes the findings of an article in American Educational Research Journal on a study of Word Generation, a cross-disciplinary middle-school program that gets students involved in discussions of civic and moral dilemmas. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
22-Jul-15
There is often a skeptical student at the back of the class who asks, “Why do we need to know this?” Ed. Magazine editor Lory Hough reports on David Perkins' recent thinking on the topic of what is worth learning. ..more
By Kim Marshall
25-Jun-15
Founder of Khan Academy shares thoughts on the future of K-12 teaching and learning, "When a student gets a C on a mathematics test and the class moves on, that student has some missing pieces for the next step in the curriculum, and over a period of years, those holes accumulate." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
10-Jun-15
Kim Marshall reviews “The ‘New PE’ Aims to Build Bodies and Brains” by Laura Pappano, in which the author reports on new thinking about physical education, moving away from dodgeball and basketball to activities that promote fitness, fun, and fairness. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
20-May-15
Kim Marshall reviews an article by Elizabeth Green, whose recent book challenges the myth that teaching is an innate talent. “Researchers have found that the most effective teachers can be extroverts—or they can just as easily be introverts. Some are humorous, but others are serious. Some are as flexible as rubber; others are as rigid as a ruler." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
12-May-15
Kim Marshall presents the key points in Sarah Sparks' Education Week article focused on student “help-seeking” in classrooms. While some students raise their hands before making any effort, others struggle unsuccessfully on their own even though they really need help. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
23-Apr-15
This piece by Canadian teacher Alana Guinane and six of her middle-school students explores how students can be more physically active in school without undermining classroom management. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
19-Mar-15
In this article in Educational Leadership, authors/consultants Robyn Jackson and Allison Zmuda draw a distinction between compliant and engaged students, outlining four strategies to elicit real classroom engagement. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
05-Mar-15
In an article titled "Building Better Teachers" published in The Atlantic, Newark teacher Sara Mosle reprises some familiar concerns about U.S. public education and discusses “a powerfully simple idea: that teaching is not some mystical talent but a set of best practices that can be codified and learned through extensive hands-on coaching, self-scrutiny, and collaboration.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
12-Feb-15
In this thoughtful article in Responsive Classroom, author Paula Denton says that teachers’ choice of words, tone of voice, and pacing have a big influence on how students think, act, and learn. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
28-Jan-15
Kim Marshall summarizes the key points of the article “Perseverance and Grit” by Rick Wormeli, in which the author claims that in some domains, today’s students are incredibly tenacious while in others, not so much. So how do we build stick-to-it-iveness in classrooms? ..more
“What is more important in our lives than learning how to have mutual, caring, romantic relationships?” ask Richard Weissbourd, Amelia Peterson, and Emily Weinstein (Harvard University) in this important Kappan article. Yet schools do precious little in this realm. ..more
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By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
24-Dec-14
Kim Marshall discusses an article in which Adam Bryant summarizes the key factors involved in building and sustaining a good organizational climate – “the things that, if done well, have an outsize positive impact, and if done poorly or not at all, have an outsize negative impact.” ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
10-Dec-14
Kim Marshall discusses a valuable Harvard Business Review article, in which Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone explain that in the corporate world, performance evaluations aren’t working very well, especially when they contain critical feedback. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
26-Nov-14
Kim Marshall reviews Daniel Coyle's important book, which takes readers on a journey to the world’s “talent hotspots” – places from which extraordinary achievement has emerged, seemingly by magic. But the real magic? A consistent formula, which includes "deep" practice. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
12-Nov-14
Kim Marshall summarizes the article “Invasion of the Annual Reviews” by Phyllis Korkki, first published in The New York Times, describing the dread associated with performance evaluations and proposing alternatives. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
29-Oct-14
In the higher education world, student surveys are the most common measure of teaching quality—in some cases, the only measure. Kim Marshall summarizes an article providing a meta-analysis of recent studies concerning student evaluations of college instructors. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
14-Oct-14
Kim Marshall summarizes a Harvard Business Review article in which Alex “Sandy” Pentland (MIT) warns leaders to avoid two common errors when making important decisions: working in isolation and following the herd. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
02-Oct-14
Kim Marshall summarizes a compelling Education Week article that examines a few common perceptions about African-American students and educators and tackles these myths head-on. ..more
by Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
17-Sep-14
Summary of a thoughtful Education Week article by Alison Wright in which the math teacher describes the very different reactions she witnessed when two of her students received an identical score on a quiz. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
03-Sep-14
Summary of an article by Karen Poplawski describing how, as a novice principal, she handled a boy who was repeatedly sent to her office for using profanity by calling on teaching techniques. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
06-Aug-14
“What Makes a Good Leader?” Sincerity, decisiveness, self-effacement, and collegiality, for starters. Columnist Kim Marshall summarizes the key points of this article by Rob Jenkins, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. ..more
by Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
23-Jul-14
TIE columnist Kim Marshall presents a summary of author Bradley Alan Ermeling's article on John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach, who consistently employed four key insights gleaned while teaching high-school English in the 1930s. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
08-Jul-14
In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Ms. Storbeck describes the unfortunate effect as a candidate uses his iPad and keyboard throughout an interview. ..more
by Kim Marshall, TIE columnist
26-Jun-14
Susan Johnson and Susan Fiarman ask whether teacher involvement in teacher evaluation encroaches on the principal’s domain, and actually produces candid feedback. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
10-Jun-14
In supervising your teachers, what works best when it comes to curriculum, documentation, teacher feedback, and classroom visits? On this one, Kim Marshall has his own views. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
27-May-14
Paul Tough believes in the “character hypothesis”—that success depends more on non-cognitive skills like persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. ..more
Teacher evaluation rubrics and checklists are potentially valuable, but often obscured by "specious, confusing evaluation criteria" and burdened with bureaucratic paperwork. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
29-Apr-14
Help your students transfer their artistic gifts to the academic arena; you will all be happier and more productive for it, says Boston Arts Academy principal Linda Nathan. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
15-Apr-14
Why aren’t America's schools on a steeper improvement curve? Ms. Childress believes it is because we have been slow to use technology to do things differently. But a few schools have begun to develop hybrid approaches. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
01-Apr-14
In the words of Jillian Lederhouse, "our inner life influences our exterior life, and we must continually examine when it may be limiting and when it may be beneficial, whether that influence involves our faith, our politics, or our family." ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
04-Mar-14
The key is getting children to focus on the things they can control, not external factors. This makes them less anxious, more confident, and thus happier and more effective players. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
25-Feb-14
How to motivate middle school students to read? Good historical fiction, says one professor - and a well-run literature circle. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
11-Feb-14
How to improve the quality of teaching? Start by exploding a few myths. "Teacher preparation is not important," "experience does not matter," "incompetent teachers are the problem"... Is that so? ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
04-Feb-14
In Project-based science, students investigate a “driving question” that frames important science content, connects to their interests and curiosity, and guides them through several weeks of collaborative investigations. ..more
By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
22-Jan-14
Kim Marshall summarizes the American School Board Journal article by author/consultant Douglas Reeves which lists six core strategies that have the greatest impact on student learning and educational equity. ..more
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By Kim Marshall, TIE Columnist
05-Jun-13
The hiring organization's support “must be consistent, enthusiastic, credible, and authentic”; and for his or her part, the new educational leader should prepare professionally, emotionally, and personally. ..more






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