Changing Our Mindset
What role do we play in making sure we can appropriately support the learning process for our students? We have to first change our mindset becoming the facilitator in the … Continue reading
Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics
If you are following principalaim, I have shared some of my favorite educators, innovators, and creative thinkers. Among my favorites is Grant Wiggins, co-author of Understanding by Design. An authority … Continue reading
Understanding Leadership
I love using principalaim to highlight an educational perspective that I share or that I am wrestling with. Today’s “Read This Now!” features a great post about leadership by Liz Ryan CEO and … Continue reading
The Innovative Classroom
The Innovative Classroom Innovation – a word that seems to be losing some of its punch in the business world might just be gaining real momentum in the world of … Continue reading
Read This Now!
In this week’s Read This Now entry, I would like to share a video series from Edutopia that will take you directly inside the classrooms of talented educators who are actively using … Continue reading
Lean Together
Originally posted on The Purpose of Work:
It has been hailed as a turning point in the feminist debate. It has also been written off as an apology for Big…
Leaning into Technology
For years, educators have struggled to define successful technology integration. Like many of my colleagues I, too, have worked with teams of other school leaders and teachers to determine how … Continue reading
School Leadership: Jim Collins’ The “X Factor” of Great Leadership
I was fortunate enough to attend a conference in February where author Jim Collins was the conference’s opening day speaker. During the lead up to his session, I wondered what … Continue reading
Read This Now!
Each week, I’d like to use principalaim to highlight an educational perspective that I share or that I might be reflecting upon. My first entry for Read This Now focuses on one … Continue reading
Student Success & Cooperative Learning
It is becoming more and more difficult to motivate student success because so many of our students come to the classroom with varying abilities and lack of interest in learning; … Continue reading
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