Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
I’m just back from a trip to Washington, D.C., where I was participating in the National Writing Project’s final meeting relating to the Building New Pathways to Teacher Leadership work. We had a great chance to share and begin to disseminate the resources generated over this two and a half year deep dive into the […]
Read More Report from the NWP Spring Meeting 2018I’m writing today at the tail end of a National Writing Project Building New Pathways for teacher Leadership Convening in New Orleans. For the last year, I’ve been working with a smart team of NWPeeps to think about the role of badging and micro credentials in supporting new pathways for teacher leaders in the National […]
Read More On Not Solving ProblemsI’m writing this weekend from the New Pathways Design Challenge meeting, an add-on meeting to the National Writing Project’s Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C. It’s the third stool to the Building New Pathways work I’m involved in with the NWP, where I’m co-facilitating a team thinking hard about micro credentials that might be useful for […]
Read More New Pathways to Leadership – A Design Challenge within the NWPI’m writing this morning from the last morning of the Building New Pathways Working Meeting, which stopped being a Listening Retreat and became the Working Meeting at around 10:30am yesterday, as the larger group of assembled National Writing Project leaders headed home and a smaller subset of the group stayed to begin their work as […]
Read More Badges. #nwpleads Badges.I’m working this week from Austin, Texas, where I’m at the Building New Pathways event with the National Writing Project. One of my more interesting consulting projects right now is working on this project, a deep dive into how we build and sustain new pathways for leadership development in the local sites, and the national […]
Read More Me, #nwpleads, and 2 Metaphors for NWP LeadershipI’m still decompressing from the blur of the last several days and, in some ways, couple of weeks. I’m now safely home from Washington, D.C., where I went with my best friend to be honored for my work by the White House. And the President. As I was processing the events of last Thursday with […]
Read More Champion of Change: Daddy & the #WHChampsI don’t usually repost press releases here or on the blog or, well, anywhere else. But this time, I’m going to make an exception. I’m honored to represent all of my teachers, colleagues, and educator friends at the White House as I meet with the other honorees to discuss the challenges and opportunities of teaching […]
Read More #WHChamps of ChangeI’m looking forward to this event, coming up in about eight days: The CSU Writing Project is pleased to invite you to a free and fun day of hands-on activities for students, teachers, and families called “Making Equity.” The event will be held Sat., Aug. 10, 9am-4:30 (registration at 8:30), on the CSU campus. Please […]
Read More Making Equity – Saturday, August 10th, 2013This morning, Tanya Baker asked us to use the writing time we shared together ((Writing Project teachers always write together. Before we do anything. I mean anything. It’s important.)) during the plenary session to write a note of thanks to a writing, teaching, or other kind of mentor. Below is what I wrote. Not edited […]
Read More Thank Someone – Writing from the 2012 NWP Annual Meeting #nwpam12In today’s podcast, actually recorded yesterday, I respond to a response to a to a piece in The Atlantic that is about writing in school. Basically, I try to explain that we’ve got some silly false binaries in our heads when it comes to writing instruction. At the heart of it, writing is about learning how […]
Read More The Podcast: On Sunsets and Arguments