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Providing Instructional Leadership
This standard is a bit more difficult to nail down. There are so many informal things that happen. Placing them in the blog will require some thinking! I am providing Instructional Leadership by: I...
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The Importance of Digital Citizenship in Social Media | Edutopia
The Importance of Digital Citizenship in Social Media | Edutopia. Excellent Thoughts around digital citizinship
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Learning in the Trenches
I very much enjoyed our last Leadership20 webinar that addressed Instructional Leadership. There were a lot of things discussed that I agreed with, and was in fact doing. I went back to check through...
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Why Would You Want To Be the Green Lantern?
I am unabashedly a nerd. I fully admit that. My favourite Superhero is the Green Lantern. I’m not sure why, maybe because I like green. Maybe it would be cool to have the power of the Green Lantern....
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My Love/Hate Relationship with Professional Growth Plans
Sometimes Professional Growth Plans drive me crazy… specifically my own! The following is from my online PGP: The most difficult part in all this is that I feel I am working to improve in all areas,...
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The Missing Safety Factor
I came across a term recently that really got me thinking. The term is Academic Safety. We talk about Safe Schools, Safe and Caring Schools, Digital Safety, Safe and Inclusive Schools, Playground...
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Is Curriculum Thwarting Transformation?
Excellent breakdown of the job of covering curricular outcomes in Alberta. Is Curriculum Thwarting Transformation?.
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Why Do We Assess? Really?
I’m currently on a break during our Provincial Curriculum Committee Meeting. I really like this group as we generally spend part of the time sitting with Alberta Education and talk about what direction...
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Don’t Blame the Students!
One of the follow ups to Provincial Achievement Tests is the inevitable analysis of the data. Whether the results are good or bad, there are things that can be interpreted from the data. While I am...
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Lessons from the Swimming Pool
Being one of the only males in a small school means I have the good fortune of going to supervise swimming lessons (well, more accurately I supervise groups of 30-40 naked boys running around the...
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REDCAMP 2013
I had the opportunity to attend REDCAMP in Red Deer, yesterday. The opportunity came to my attention because of Twitter. I have never attended an edcamp before. Sean Grainger (@graingered) posted a...
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Wrapping up a year of powerful learning
There are only two weeks left in school. Not a great time to be sick, but I’ve missed a couple of days this week and am definitely not at full energy. There are some things that I should have completed...
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Power of Networking
Teachers and school leaders are not unfamiliar with the idea of PLCs. We all have worked on them to varying degrees. Usually they are just a grade level/subject team working together to do planning....
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Who Am I Here For?
I don’t remember the exact question, from the interview I had for getting my Vice Principal job in Sturgeon School Division, but I do remember responding that my job was to be an advocate for the...
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Digital Literacy
Had to share this! http://plpnetwork.com/2014/03/26/infuse-digital-literacy-curriculum/
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The Three P’s of Excellence in Teaching
Over the last few years I’ve had some thoughts coalescing around how best to use our teachers’ Professional Growth Plans. I’ve struggled for a few years as to how to make the PGP not just a piece of...
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What Do Teachers Want from an Instructional Leader?
Alberta’s Principal Quality Standards have Providing Instructional Leadership as their fourth leadership dimension. The document describes this quality as follows: The principal ensures that all...
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Engaging in Engagement
Alberta’s Framework for Education (education.alberta.ca/media/6581166/framework.pdf) outlines a path to take our students on to allow them to become engaged thinkers and ethical citizens with an...
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It’s always Teachers’ Convention when you’re on Twitter!
Over the next two days, our School Division is participating in the North Central Teachers’ Convention. www.mynctca.com. I have always liked convention as an opportunity to get together with...
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Let’s Stop the Consumption
There is a buzz lately around the idea that our students need to move from being the consumers of information to producers, or creators, of information. Moving teachers from a comfortable place where...
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