Lessons From Business Leaders: What can educators learn from the private sector about a sustainable peer coaching model? Throughout these past three months I’ve been exploring and practicing the peer coaching model. My professor, Les Foltos, literally wrote the book on the topic. His book, Peer Coaching: Unlocking the Power of Collaboration (http://amzn.to/2g7WiW7) is a […]
Many years ago, I worked in a school where student learning involved solving real-world problems. One example is when third graders interviewed city transportation officials as well as school district operations managers, parents, and staff to design a new parking lot and traffic pattern for the congested unsafe lot. They used math to design model […]
My most recent digital adventures have me exploring 21st century skills–what are they and how can I use them in my instructional technology coaching relationships? There are several different models and definiteions out there to explain these critical competencies, but they all have essentially the same message: The jobs that our students will have as … [Read more…]
NASA and Mars Exploration On July 20, 2016, US scientists celebrated the 40th anniversary of reaching the surface of Mars with Viking I. Forty years later, a new generation of scientists and engineers are up to their elbows in development and planning for an even bigger vision. NASA has plans to have astronauts orbiting Mars […]
