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Paperless Recruiting Case Study

Remarkable Results with Paperless Recruiting A Case Study: Ludlow Public Schools, Massachusetts Web Site: www.ludlowps.org District   The Challenge: Mountains of paperwork … Read more »

Education Recruiting – The High Cost of Teacher Turnover

The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) estimates that the national cost of public school … Read more »

Criticizing Educators:

Why do you think it has become so acceptable to criticize educators and other public employees? Comments? … Read more »

Framework for Teaching Not Quite Enough

Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching is, according to ASCD, “a benchmark for thousands of school systems and educators around the world.” Popularized in her 1996 book, Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for … Read more »

Appropriate wording & proper evaluation

By Sandi Detwiler Teachers know that simply writing Good or Poor on a student's essay is meaningless feedback. Yet many teachers receive equally meaningless feedback in the form of evaluations that label them … Read more »

Cross Country Travel & Realizing the importance of the Outdoors

After living in five countries and teaching in international schools for the past twenty one years, Rick and I are delighted to be back in the U.S. A. We are privileged to … Read more »

The DNA of Innovation Leaders

The DNA of Innovation Leaders, as posted on “Innovation Excellence” (http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2011/10/11/the-dna-of-innovation-leaders) Posted on October 11, 2011 by Luis Solis The Six DNA Strands of Innovation Leaders Innovation is about people; the leaders who champion, defend, drive and help to develop and organization’s innovation capability are special people indeed. However, their traits can be acquired; none were born exceptional innovation leaders, rather, many have adjusted their skills, communication styles, work disciplines and cognitive capacity to get to where they are today. #1 Self-awareness: successful innovation leaders have an above-average awareness of their strengths or weaknesses, and thus how to build teams, processes and agendas to get the most done in complex large organizations #2 Eclectic experience: it may sound hackneyed, but … Read entire article »

Innovation Excellence (http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2011/10/11/the-dna-of-innovation-leaders} The Six DNA Strands of Innovation Leaders Innovation is about people; the leaders who champion, defend, drive and help to develop and organization’s innovation capability are special people indeed. However, their traits can be acquired; none were born exceptional innovation leaders, rather, many have adjusted their skills, communication styles, work disciplines and cognitive capacity to get to where they are today. #1 Self-awareness: successful innovation leaders have an above-average awareness of their strengths or weaknesses, and thus how to build teams, processes and agendas to get the most done in complex large organizations #2 Eclectic experience: it may sound hackneyed, but these are Renaissance women and men. MBAs are optional. Many have enjoyed numerous seemingly disparate … Read entire article »

The 17 E’s of Excellent Electronic Education Leadership

The 17 E’s of  Excellent Electronic Education Leadership, by Jonathan Martin Experimentation: Try it, the technology or the application, play with it, do something with it, and if it helps, do more with it.  If it doesn’t, move on to the next thing.  Whether it is social media, laptops or mobile devices in the classroom, video messages to the school community,  educational leaders will improve student learning and school environments by trying and testing digital tools to see the value they can offer.   Model learning by experiment. Enthusiasm! Be an irresistible force of nature: See a student, teacher, administrator, or parent doing something that you haven’t seen before with a digital device? Respond with enthusiasm first, inquiry second, and scrutiny, only if … Read entire article »

TEACHING – DON’T GIVE UP ON YOUR JOB SEARCH!

SOME INSIGHT FROM A JOB SEEKER WHO WAS JUST HIRED FOR A NEW TEACHING JOB: “SchoolSpring played a huge part in helping me find a teaching job. I constantly received e-mails with available jobs and was fortunate enough to be contacted for interviews for several of the jobs I applied for. It is a very competitive market, so do not be discouraged if you aren’t contacted for an interview or even a quick acknowledgment that your application was received. For every 15 jobs I applied for, I heard back from maybe one and it took well over a year and a half for me to find the position I really wanted.” ~Jennifer from Towson, MD~ … Read entire article »