Bonus Podcast 2: Dr. Mark Siegel addresses shortcomings of the letter grading system. This is part two of a two-part series.
Bonus Podcast 1: Dr. Mark Siegel addresses shortcomings of the letter grading system. This is part one of a two-part series.
This prezi by Josh Flosi is great. You will learn a lot and think about a lot just by clicking your way throught it. I learn more every time I do! Click here to watch…
[Note: My last blog talked about the agrarian school calendar. I missed the news that the Los Angeles Unified School district is cutting days from the existing school year. The Los Angeles Times wrote: …
In the US, the school year is based on the premise that students study in the winter and help farm in the summer. Duhhh! That may have been true in the past, but today most…
Interesting side note: This week I had the honor of co-presenting a session about blogging at finalsite university in Hartford, Connecticut (finalsite hosts Delphian’s website and provides our content management system). During the session I…
Oregon public education is changing in a major way. We no longer elect a Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Governor now wears that additional hat. Our last elected Superintendent is ending her term early (at…
This year’s Commencement speaker was Dr. Thomas Hellie, President of Linfield College. It was a great speech. He gave our graduates four main pieces of advice, with good examples and Shakespearian references: 1) Find a…
We Don’t Need School Reform, We Need School Transformation I just read a great article about a “cutting-edge education experiment at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School” in Maine, that “could become the norm in Maine…
As noted in an earlier blog, I am the volunteer executive director of the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools. This morning, I was on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud on a forty-five minute segment…