Spring 2012 – email Doug@DrDougGreen.Com for archives.

5/7 Move to Outsource Teacher Licensing Process Draws Protest. Let’s hope people at more schools do this. @alfiekohn @NYTimes

5/7 Yong Zhao Interview: Will the Common Core Create World-Class Learners? Also see my summary of Yong’s Book @colonelb

5/6 Individual U.S. Schools Take Part in PISA Pilot. The schools will see how they stack up against other countries’ in the world. @Montberte

5/5 Research apps & sites for learners (Slides) @ShellTerrell

5/5 The arts teach much more than most people think. Ten Lessons compiled by Elliot Eisner – @davidwees

5/5 Science Bob! Be sure to check out the videos. @erinpaynter

5/5 What’s wrong with Best Practices. @peoplegogy

5/4 Quotes well suited for 2012 graduation speeches from 10 recently published books These are excellent books. @JonathanEMartin

5/3 Five Teacher Evaluation Must-Haves – @iEducator

5/3 Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments of Teaching This should get you thinking. @MiguelEscotet

5/3 One more unintended consequence of value -added teacher evaluation – Who still thinks this is a good idea? @MiguelEscotet @jeff_hayes

5/2 Five Teacher Evaluation Must-Haves – @iEducator

5/2 Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments of Teaching This should get you thinking. @MiguelEscotet

5/2 One more unintended consequence of value -added teacher evaluation – Who still thinks this is a good idea? @MiguelEscotet @jeff_hayes

5/1 Ten ways to stop bad meetings @weemooseus

5/1 School bribes kids to improve test scores. Looks like good discussion for students. @ToddWhitaker

5/1 Great article by Malcolm Gladwell about the future of football in America This is from Sophie Altchek, a high school student who blogs about concussion issues. Share with coaches and kids. @sophiealtchek @sree

4/30 A School Leadership Quiz – Five questions with answers to score yourself – @DrTroyRoddy

4/29 Ten questions parents can ask about a school’s bully policy @DrMerylAin

4/29 Five qualities adult role models that matter most to teens @thindifference @DrPriceMitchell

4/28 Justin Tarte’s thoughts on school leadership – Justin is one I my favorites. Be sure to follow him. @justintarte

4/27 Eight Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses @rkiker

4/27 Here is the link to the real pineapple story and questions. @DrDougGreen

4/27 Pineapples, Robot Graders, and Standardized Testing in Higher Ed This article refers to Academically Adrift, which I summarized. @Montberte

4/26 Skillful leaders make others feel powerful. Seven ways to Enhance Your Power @Leadershipfreak

4/26 Inform Others of the Harm of Standardized Tests with This Flyer. Are you are to join or start an opt out group?@innovativeedu @bhsprincipal

4/26 New York Principals are Speaking Out Against Standardized Tests. @InnovativeEdu

4/26 What dumbs down writing more than standardized writing tests? Machine-scored standardized writing tests – @alfiekohn @NYTimes

4/25 The bad pineapple questions are not the problem with standardized tests. @InnovativeEdu

4/25 7:46 with Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan on The Daily Show. What do you think? Is our intelligence being insulted by this administration? What will it take to get policies that align with the rhetoric? @DrMerylAin

4/24 Nine Ways to Assess without Standardized Tests @InnovativeEdu

4/23 Ten Smart Tips for Nervous and New Job Candidates @Montberte

4/23 New York State NCLB testing takes some hits. This article concerns deaf students. At the end it refers to a now famous pineapple question. You have to read this. It is seriously stupid. @DrDougGreen @NYPost

4/23 Kindergarten student has crappy situation thanks to standardized testing. This is unbelievable. I think it results from a culture that buys the nonsense of NCLB/RTT testing. Here is the district phone number if you want to call. 417.826.5410 I couldn’t find any email addresses on their website. @L_Hilt

4/23 What new research on extended school day says @scoopit @oveucsj

4/23 Younger children in the classroom likely overdiagnosed with ADHD @iEducator

4/22 The homework trip and what to do about it. Great for educators and parents. @oveucsj

4/21 What Parents & Educators Want from Student Assessments @MyrdinJT @DrPriceMitchell

4/20 How schools can teach innovation – @oveucsj

4/19 How schools can teach innovation – @oveucsj

4/18 Are grades punishment? Discuss here and see my comment. @davidwees

4/18 Boston Does Digital: What We Can Learn From A City That Is Getting It Right? Does your city do this? @FastCompany

4/17 Classroom Guide: Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning – @DrDougGreen

4/16 Twelve reasons to opt your kid out of standardized tests – @snbeach

4/15 Five Ways Education Could Be Revolutionized Over the Next 20 Years – @Edudemic @iEducator

4/15 Inside Foxconn, the Chinese factory that makes iPads This short video is a must for educators, parents, and students. You can also use it as a conversation starter in class. @iEducator

4/14 The homework controversy: can it be resolved? Leaders need to contemplate this. @iEducator

4/13 20 signs that you can’t be trusted as a leader Also see my comment. @justintarte

4/13 Virginia requires high school students to take an online course – Is this a way to fix our schools? @colonelb

4/13 Is Accountability Undermining American Education? If it is, how do we fix it? @wcarozza @MiguelEscotet

4/12 Ten Ways to Improve Your Credibility @iEducator

4/11 Ten Ways to Improve Your Credibility @iEducator

4/10 Leadership Requires a Sense of Optimism. @tedcoine

4/10 Connecting: The Root of Classroom Management. Every teacher should read this. Also see my comment. @tomwhitby

4/9 The beginning of the end for pointless post-secondary? Let’s hope. Great list of new options – @DrDougGreen

4/8 Eight things teachers should consider when adopting social media for classroom use @matthewkitchens @justintarte

4/8 The Best Ideas for Our Schools Start with numbered list near the bottom. @kjarrett @NMHS_Principal

4/7 Eight things teachers should consider when adopting social media for classroom use @matthewkitchens @justintarte

4/7 The Best Ideas for Our Schools Start with numbered list near the bottom. @kjarrett @NMHS_Principal

4/6 Helping Derailed Students Get Back On Track @DrTroyRoddy

4/5 Principals 15-Point Spring Break Inspection @gcouros

4/5 Are Children Overpraised? Psychology Today @DrPriceMitchell

4/4 Ten ways to make a difference – Share this! @justintarte

4/3 Ten things I wished I never learned about teaching @justintarte @Nunavut_tweeter

4/3 Detroit Students Suspended for Demanding Better Education @DrDougGreen Here is another article on the same topic from the Huffington Post. @iEducator

4/2 21 Things that will be obsolete by 2020 Let’s hope. @rkiker

4/1 Awesome short video: How 5th grade teacher inspires children to lead meaningful lives! @DrPriceMitchell

4/1 Great piece from @DianeRavitch on “The toll of school reform on public education” @pasi_sahlberg @MiguelEscotet

3/31 The 21st Century Principal: 6 Must-Have Mobile Device Apps for the School Administrator @21stprincipal @s_bearden

3/31 We Know Our #Education System Is Broken, So Why Can’t We Fix It? An interview with Sajan George, the founder of Matchbook Learning – @MiguelEscotet @FastCompany

3/30 How to Become a Lifelong Learner – Share with students. @zecool

3/30 New York City Dept. of Education wants to ban the word “dinosaur” from standardized tests Does this make sense? @tomwhitby

3/30 Researchers blast Chicago teacher evaluation reform Looking for ammunition to show policy makers why growth models of teacher evaluation are bad? Here it is with details. @MiguelEscotet

3/29 New York City Dept. of Education wants to ban the word “dinosaur” from standardized tests Does this make sense? @tomwhitby

3/29 What do I do with the big kid? Dr. Doug’s reflections on relationships between classroom teachers, aides, and consultant teachers posted by Will Dyamport @peoplegogy

3/28 School Considers Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Phone Use In Class. All schools should start to consider this. @kevin_corbett

3/27 If the right people don’t know about ur work, your work WON’T matter. How to toot your own horn @Leadershipfreak

3/27 Deb Meier and Alfie Kohn offer some thoughts about play and take questions at a Coalition of Essential Schools event. This is a bit long, but worth it. @alfiekohn

3/26 Only 7 Percent of Teachers Believe in Standardized Tests @rkiker

3/26 The Eight Skills Students Must Have To Be Digital Leaders @missnoor28 @EduDemic (This one might load slowly.)

3/25 Schools Abandon Textbooks To Go All iPad – See how they could afford it. @hereandnow @bhsprincipal

3/24 Open rebellion against standardized school tests in Texas @summify @kjarrett

3/23 Three great presentation tips from Daniel Pink @DanielPink

3/22 You’ll never reach your best until you courageously acknowledge your worst. @Leadershipfreak

3/22 Top high school principal gives best ideas for schools and education @NMHS_Principal

3/22 Iowa Future site contains lots of cool links for real school reform. @Waukeestudent Also check out this video by Scott Mcleod. It’s about Iowa, but applies to all states.

3/21 Top 10 qualities of top principals @CLOUDUCATION

3/21 A 1:50 video that all teachers, parents, and administrators need to watch Great teachers want to prevent the next act of misbehavior. Poor teachers want revenge. We don’t want kids leaving the office mad because hurt people, hurt people. @ToddWhitaker

3/20 Grades as dynamic, flexible learning objects ALso see my comment. @ryanbretag @justintarte

3/20 What I Wish I Had Known about Student Motivation Also see my comment. @L_Hilt

3/19 Indiana to revamp its school principal certification exam. @ToddWhitaker

3/19 Wikipedia – what are we afraid of? Teacher makes case for allowing students to use it with great info-graphic @nnoorris @cmt1 @kylepace

3/19 A Principal’s Reflections: The Best Ideas for Our Schools @21stprincipal

3/18 Luck and Education: A St. Patrick’s Day Reflection @DrTroyRoddy

3/17 Can’t go to Philadelphia for #ascd12 next week? Watch 22 sessions streamed live online. Warning: Can you believe they charge $159 for this and they don’t tell you until after you have created an account? @timit04

3/16 Arne Duncan: American Education Should Include a laptop of every desk. @ToddWhitaker

3/15 15 tips from a principal on dealing with internal politics at school. @timito4

3/14 Harvard Business Review Tip: Delegate, Then Disengage @DrTroyRoddy

3/14 We can only fix the middle school by fundamentally re-thinking it. Be sure to click through to the National Geographic article. @azjd @DSingl @irasocal

3/13 Your weaknesses are inspirational opportunities. “7 Proven Ways to Inspire Others” @Leadershipfreak

3/13 Twitter 101 for School Leaders @NMHS_Principal @jackson_carrie @bhsprincipal @ToddWhitaker

3/12 Teacher Survey Shows Morale Is at a Low Point Finally a real accomplishment for current reform policy. @TFMcGrath @nytimes

3/11 Why you shouldn’t redshirt your kindergarten student. @DrMerylAin

3/11 Are you a RIF (reduction in force waiting to happen) or a VIP? Having a PLN can help! Advice that will help you be irreplaceable. @tucksoon

3/10 Five Questions to Test Your Leadership Visibility @erinpaynter

3/9 Study: How Parents Play with Toddlers Predicts Academic Success. @kjarrett @summify

3/9 The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head – Good graphic for people who wonder what it is or at least one version of it. @Paulinha_PRMS

3/8 Four Rules For an Effective “Thank You” Great leadership piece @BretRelander

3/7 Good article on contructivist theory – Shows how it runs counter to NCLB/RTT @mccoyderek

3/7 Error Rates in Measuring Teacher and School Performance Based on Student Test Score Gains This makes use of test scores to evaluate teachers even more shaky. @mcleod

3/6 Ohio puts teachers on notice: Teachers in “low-scoring” schools to re-take licensure test. @steelepierce

3/6 60 minutes piece on redshirting: holding kids back from kindergarten: Every educator & parent should watch. @tomwhitby

3/5 To Supercharge Growth, Start By Tearing Down Silos. In education, silos are departments and grade levels. @FastCompany

3/5 ACT and SAT add little to college success predictions. Scores correlate with income, whereas GPA and rank in class do not. @mcleod

3/4 Learning To Be A Power Listener – This looks like a good read. Just asked for a review copy. @jaykubassek

3/3 In 7 Steps: Take Your Resume from Mediocre to Must Interview @YouTernMark

3/3 High School sports: Who is getting hurt? Great graphic. Share with kids and parents. @principalspage

3/2 Twenty movies every teacher should see @wcarozza

3/2 Top 12 Must See Teacher Movies @21stprincipal @erinpaynter

3/1 The Ten Commandments of Presentations @bjnichols

3/1 The latest Sir Ken Robinson animated presentation video on The Educator’s PLN @tomwhitby

3/1 29 Things I’ve Learned as an Administrator – I added two more. See my comment. @erinpaynter

2/29 10 Education Technology Implementation Pitfalls and Ways to Avoid Them @rkiker

2/28 One Of The Best #Leadership Lessons Ever…..In Just 29 Words @bjnichols

2/27 Research shows you should praise students for their hard work and risk-taking, not for their intellect. @squditus

2/25 Principal landmines. Also see my comment. @mikeroberts1973

2/24 No Student Left Untested by @DianeRavitch – The New York Review of Books @MiguelEscotet

2/24 Five Tell-Tale Signs You’re Becoming a Teacher Leader @bjnichols

2/23 Teachers in Buffalo get free plastic surgery including Botox, liposuction, and implants. This should hit the table in the next negotiations.

2/23 Bill Gates: For teachers shame is no solution @prismdecision

2/22 The map has been replaced by the compass” – Too bad ed. policy makers start with maps! @thisissethsblog @bhsprincipal

2/21 The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely On Wikipedia @findingDulcinea @locotech

2/21 Ten ways to be a great teacher Be sure to check my comment. @justintarte

2/20 The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely On Wikipedia @findingDulcinea @locotech

2/19 Ten ways to be a great teacher Be sure to check my comment. @justintarte

2/18 What Should A Networked Leader Tweet About? @web20classroom @NMHS_Principal

2/18 A must watch video “Why mobile learning?”Thanks to @TomWhitby – Includes autistic girl who can’t talk making a movie. @missnoor28

2/17 Finland’s Formula for School Success – Short video (6:00) deals with Finland’s emphasis on special education @kevin_corbet

2/17 Daniel Pink says merit pay doesn’t work. @wcarozza

2/16 Why principals should use Twitter. If you are not a principal share this with one you know. @PrincipalJ

2/16 18 Enlightening iPad Experiments in Education – Online Universities @DavidMiller_UK @CFORPmultimedia @zecool

2/15 5 Ways to Produce Something of Value This Week This site is good @leahmacvie

2/14 You only need three interview questions and they are… @wcarozza

2/13 Under education reform, school principals swamped by teacher evaluations @wcarozza

2/13 Principals Can Get Out of Their Office and Into Classrooms with These Ideas for Harnessing the Power of Cell Phones @innovativeEdu

2/12 Think grading schools is dumb? Check ot Indiana’s new school grading system. @ShellTerrell

2/12 Agreed! Ditch Test Prep @bjnichols

2/11 Think grading schools is dumb? Check ot Indiana’s new school grading system. @ShellTerrell

2/10 Check Henrico County, VA School’s Teaching Innovation Progression Chart (TIP), which helps teachers reflect on where they are in terms of growth. There are also tons of cool free lesson plans sorted by grade and subject. @twoodwar @jamaddux

2/10 Rethinking Testing in the Age of the iPad Education Week @21stprincipal

2/9 The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance – #Neuroscience – Scientific American – @MiguelEscotet

2/9 Foreign Language Classes at Risk as Federal Funding is Cut. @DrMerylAin see my comment.
2/8 Five #Leadership Lessons: How Great Leaders Grow @bjnichols

2/7 Spanking makes kids more aggressive. Share this study with parents. @erinpaynter

2/7 U.S. Schools Have a Poverty Crisis, Not an Education Crisis. @chrislehman @HuffingtonPost

2/7 E-Testing Centers – The Future is Here @NYTimes

2/6 Preparing Students to Learn Without Us @azjd

2/5 Digital Learning: What Kids Really Want – THE Journal – It’s not just data if we’re serious about creativity & probl solving. @jturner56

2/4 Six Ways to Unleash Creativity in the Workplace (Schools included) @tucksoon

2/4 How college prep is killing high school – Ideas – The Boston Globe @newfirewithin

2/3 TechCrunch | Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down @oveucsj

2/2 Should your school get rid of rank in class? Thoughts from a student. @bhsprincipal

2/1 Eight Steps of Leading Learning Forward A Case Study of @PamMoran’s Ed. Leadership blog @JonathanEMartin

2/1 Texas Commissioner: testing is out of control One state is starting to get it. Only 49 to go. @MigualEscotet

 

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