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"WAIT TILL YOU MEET THAT GIRL, THERE. SHE IS SO MUCH FUN!"
For thirteen years, and counting, I have had the pleasure of meeting potential, incoming students, to Wyoming Seminary Lower School. In this capacity, I have performed countless, incoming, maturational based screenings for children in Pre-Kindergarte...
REGARDING FRUSTRATION...
I awoke this morning, with thoughts of;methodology,goals,objectives,benchmarksstandards,assessment,evaluation,observation,conversation,COLLABORATION,discussion,and, Many Children, All Being Left Behind!dancing in my head...It was my intent, to write...
PRESCHOOL READINESS
A very common, MISCONCEPTION, of the traditional, modern-day preschool, is that children will be successful in "real" school, if teachers, at these earliest of ages, make certain, that three and four year old students, "LEARN," how to write their nam...
Some Character Traits of a Great Leader...
An unknown source for whose reference I shall research, lists six qualities of a great leader...This list was given to me out of context, simply, as a list of character traits...After reading them, it is my feeling that they are not only true, they a...
Satire on Satire: The Use of Technology in a 21st Century High School English Literature Classroom
Taken from the work of a brilliant, future, essayist, who wishes to remain anonymous...He is a pragmatist and somewhat paradoxical...The names have been changed to protect...blah...blah...blah.I Feel This WayKurt Vonnegut wrote, Slaughterhouse Five,"...
When My Association With Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School Began
Following the Whole Language debacle, that concerned my daughter, which I discussed previously, that particular school's Board of Trustees, began a re-organization initiative. They hired a middle aged man, whose wife was pleasant enough, who was the ...
Leadership in the 21st Century
As I read the work of Michael Fullan and others, regarding this blog piece, I am struck by that word, LEADERSHIP.What did it mean prior the very public collapse of a major corporation, like ENRON. What does it mean, as we watch the possible collapse ...
Here is another good one!
An ASCD Smartbrief with a GOOD MESSAGE!More states infuse standards with 21st-century skillsAn increasing number of states, including Iowa, West Virginia and Wisconsin, are adding skills like collaboration, creativity and critical thinking as well as...
