• First Year of Teaching /Best Practice

    First Year of Teaching / Best Practice Teacher Passivity and Teacher Proximity  Today’s topic of teacher passivity and proximity to learning go together.  I believe that there is a direct correlation between teacher passivity and student achievement.  I also believe that when a teacher is within “a proximal distance” to a student, learning will improve. …

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  • Leadership / First Year of Teaching

    Leadership / First Year of Teaching Understanding your “shelf life” ( although all of my articles are written with an educational slant, I think this one is especially appropriate for all businesses) We turn another page of the calendar.  March 1st always sends to me a signal that many people are thinking about retirement.   As…

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  • Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice

    Leadership / First Year of Teaching / Best Practice Receiving feedback Please do not ask, “how am I doing?”, if you do not want to know the truth!  I know this question has been posed to me many times, and the wait time before I answered seemed like an eternity.  I wasn’t prepared to tell…

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