Expecting Excellence

  • First Year of Teaching / Leadership/ Mentoring

    First Year of Teaching / Leadership / Best Practice Are you “that” teacher?  This past weekend I had the wonderful experience of going to see a group of mostly middle school aged children perform instrumental musical selections at a local mall.  As they were setting up, I focused my attention on the instructor, his activities,…

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  • Leadership / First Year of Teaching/ Best Practice

    Leadership / First Year Teaching /Best Practice Leadership lessons learned from the movie “Moneyball” for the classroom and school. The 2011 movie Moneyball provides an engaging look behind the scenes of running a major-league baseball franchise with significant fiscal limitations.  Some have argued that the philosophy illustrated in the movie and actually employed by the…

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  • Best Practice / Leadership / First Year of Teaching

    Best Practice / Leadership /First Year of Teaching  Student engagement vs. student avoidance Today’s article will begin to take a close look at student engagement and student avoidance.  Past posts have spoken about how important and how difficult it is to engage our students.  For me, it is and will always be the teacher’s responsibility…

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