What is the Washington School Improvement Framework?
On March 16, I sat in a classroom at the Northwest Educational Service District (NWESD) while the Office of [...]
Career Readiness for the Real World: How Your Career Can Help Students With Theirs
Ed here. Wow, it’s been chilly lately! With all this snow and the heating bills climbing, my mind wanders to [...]
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
While visiting a seventh-grade classroom earlier this week, I was impressed with the dialogue among table groups collaborating on an [...]
Extracurricular Activities: One of the Best School Investments
I just received a text from Ed Jr. “Hey Dad, I’m going to stay afterschool for cross-country try outs. Can [...]
Equity in Education For All
As I visited schools in our region and listened to educators plan instruction for student learning, I heard many conversations [...]
The NWESD Young Authors Conference
Last month I wrote about strategies for engaging students in writing (Ed Talk Dec 20, 2016). In the spring of [...]
Knowledge Bowl
Last March I traveled to Arlington High School on a Saturday to find out what this thing called “Knowledge Bowl” [...]
How Deeper Learning Can Help Students Prepare for Project-Based Work
Did you know that currently one-third of American workers are engaged in some kind of freelance or project-based work? And [...]
Summer Professional Development
"School's out for summer..." As the days get longer and the temps are creeping up, I find myself humming [...]
Google Expeditions
I attended the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) 2016 conference recently, which included numerous great workshops and time to [...]