A great post on Ed LeaderWeb pondering the question “Why do we teach?” and one that I find timely given a conversation I had with a long time friend and colleague. We started our first year as teachers in 1996 at the same school and in a visit this afternoon, we pondered this very question. [...]
The technology landscape keeps changing and anyone working in schools over the past several years can tell you that. When I was hired as the CIO at my current school in 2002, using terms like podcasting, blogging and wikis were words very few faculty members would have recognized. Six years later, many of Worcester Academy’s [...]
I am attending the Independent School Leader Institute at Harvard University this week. The line up includes Steve Seidel, Howard Gardner, Pat Bassett and Patricia Graham among other notable education researchers in the field. Today the agenda included looking at the skill sets needed to be successful in a 21st century economy. The latest on [...]