by Pete Hall | Jan 23, 2016 | Culture
Relationships, relationships, relationships. We’ve heard this refrain from educators for a while now – learning starts with relationships. I had the good fortune to chat with two high school students recently about their experience with a particular teacher who had...
by Pete Hall | Dec 20, 2015 | Culture
In a garden-variety classroom, there are about a million different things going on at any given moment. They’re all important, right? So what draws our attention? What do the best teachers focus on? The answer is so unambiguously obvious it might startle you:...
by Pete Hall | Oct 3, 2015 | Culture
What’s the difference between doing something and doing something well? What is the variable that takes implementation and turns it into excellence? If you were to brainstorm a list to answer those two questions, it might take a while. However, there is one force that...
by Pete Hall | Aug 30, 2015 | Culture
Recently, I was providing a PD experience for a school about the ins and outs of PLCs. Teacher-teams were tasked to identify a particular student learning-based problem-of-practice to tackle, set a SMART goal, and build a plan together. As teams collaborated, the...
by Pete Hall | Aug 28, 2015 | Culture
Role model. There’s a lightning rod of a term. Is this the responsibility of a teacher? Does this designation just add to the burden of a profession already buried in stress and steeped in unreasonable expectations? Aren’t teachers supposed to ensure that every child...
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