The Educator's Notebook

On The Importance Of Teaching Content In Elementary Schools
Atlantic - 8/1/19

“What if the medicine we have been prescribing is only making matters worse, particularly for poor children? What if the best way to boost reading comprehension is not to drill kids on discrete skills but to teach them, as early as possible, the very things we’ve marginalized—including history, science, and other content that could build the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand both written texts and the world around them?”
Woods And Federer: Specialist and Generalist. Where Is The Balance?
Guardian - 7/12/19

“The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivises or even demands hyperspecialisation. While it is true that there are areas that require individuals with Tiger’s precocity and clarity of purpose, as complexity increases – as technology spins the world into vaster webs of interconnected systems in which each individual only sees a small part – we also need more Rogers: people who start broad and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives while they progress. People with range.”

“5 Ways To Create A Culture Of Accountability”
Gallup - 6/3/19

“A company's accountability problem may actually be a coaching problem in disguise.”
"5 Questions Every Onboarding Program Must Answer”
Gallup - 3/13/19

The Minerva Project Spins Off Its School, Sells Tech Platform
EdSurge - 7/11/19
The Life Of A Teenage YouTuber
New York Times - 7/9/19
One Teacher's Experience Teaching Public High School Online
Hechinger Report - 7/4/19

“In my first class, I had a homeless student from St. Paul and another who was training for the Olympics in the Duluth area. Both were concerned about their education and wanted to succeed. They had unique circumstances, yet they shared many common challenges — internet access, enough time to complete assignments, anxiety about failure. The entire class shared their stories, and their worries, with one another and reinforced each student’s strengths and perseverance. We worked hard as a class to find common ground and cultivate our strengths.”
Are iPads Helpful, Or Distractions? One School Returns To Paper
Sydney Morning Herald - 3/31/19

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