Shifting the system towards hope
I began my teaching career in 1975. For the first 20 years, the changes were modest alterations to the existing system. Lauren Hill clearly labels…
9 Minutes
Upside down is right side up:
Shifting priorities for professional learning
Do you have your list? You know the one - the list of every single initiative, program, curriculum, and gosh darn good idea someone at your…
10 Minutes
Teacher leadership - not a number
I struggled as a beginning teacher. I loved the curriculum and wanted to share literature with my students, but I had not mastered the art of…
9 Minutes
Stepping into the network - and into leadership
In the fall of 2005, I was two months into my first teaching position. Two months into the uncertainty, triumphs, and struggles of my chosen…
7 Minutes
I remember, I believe:
One teacher’s networking journey
The educators who taught and shaped me in my first years of schooling back in Detroit were Black teachers from the South, most of whom had been…
9 Minutes
Shifting from me to we
I was losing my mojo in the classroom a few years ago. As a physical educator coming off my fourth knee surgery in six years with low back issues…
8 Minutes
Meet Rob Kriete and Tricia Ebner, blogging leads for the authentic assessments roundtable discussion
Over the next two months, bloggers from the CTQ community will be discussing the implications of authentic assessments. The roundtable discussion…
5 Minutes
The future leadership of teachers
The future leadership of teachers, authored by Barnett Berry and Vicki Phillips, was originally posted by TeachingPartners. Almost 30 years ago,…
16 Minutes
A #CTQCollab Love Story
Today is Valentine’s Day. To celebrate, let’s share love stories. I’ll start. They encouraged me. They connected me to other teacher leaders. They…
13 Minutes
Teacher networks: Here, there, and everywhere
Hierarchies are not going away anytime soon. But the Internet facilitates network forms of organizing, and they are growing and increasing in power…
1 Minute
