by smcneely | Jun 12, 2012 | Blog
I’m all about a good thinking prompt, so I decided to put my head to end of the year reflective questions that could stir teacher thinking in those final days of school. Here’s the list I’ve come up with: What was the most successful lesson you...
by smcneely | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
Anybody who has been around me in the last 6 months or so knows of my recent fascination with the book Teach Like a Champion. (Lemov, 2010) The book is packed with practical teaching techniques that are markers of a scholarly classroom, with classroom vignettes that...
by smcneely | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog
One of the books I’ve been in and out of a lot the last few months is Leading Good Schools to Greatness: Mastering What Great Principals Do Well (Gray & Streshly; 2010). It initially was a text for my own leadership learning at Marian, but I recognized its value...
by smcneely | Jan 4, 2012 | Blog
Late in 2011 I read The Happiness Project (by Gretchen Rubin, 2011), a New York Times Bestseller about a young woman’s journey to improve the quality of her life through fairly simple goals she sets for herself each month. It’s hard not to think about starting your...
by smcneely | Dec 2, 2011 | Blog
I talk about culture all the time, mostly in the context of literacy, but also in relation to college-going, school climate, and the arts. I’ve never been hard-pressed to offer a suitable definition for culture in any of these scenarios, but when you remove the word...
