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Admirable Faculties: INTENTIONAL TEACHER order update

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Saturday, February 20, 2010. INTENTIONAL TEACHER order update. Just a quick update:. The Intentional Teacher: Forging a Great Career in the Independent School Classroom. Is now proudly displayed for order. On the website of the publisher, Avocus Publishing. Which starts in just a couple of days. See you in San Francisco, I hope! Schooling, educ...

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Admirable Faculties: February 2010

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Treating Teachers Like Grown-Ups. It'll take me a while to collect all my thoughts on the "Leading Toward A Sustainable Future" workshop this afternoon at the NAIS 2010 Annual Conference. I led off with some collective wisdom on school leadership that I amassed for the "Alive and Well" online advisory. There was pl...

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Admirable Faculties: August 2010

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Friday, August 6, 2010. Farewell, My Friends. This will be the final post here; I am working toward moving my evolving spiel to a new venue, " Not Your Father's School. My hope is to unify some of my thinking, which has been split between this blog and " The New Progressive. I don't really blame all the excited posters and tweeters under whose ...

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Admirable Faculties: February 2009

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Sunday, February 22, 2009. No Man's Land, or The Trench? Without rolling out any of the cliches about repeating what hasn't worked, let me say that I think that hunkering down is a dangerous idea. Even if the school can easily point to a vortex of external forces that are causing problems for enrollment and fundraising- "It's not our. But it's ...

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Admirable Faculties: March 2010

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Sunday, March 21, 2010. The Playing Fields of Eton- and 21st-century Waterloos. It’s a lovely picture, progressive in its optimism and focused on the things that education is supposed to be preparing kids for: college, jobs, and responsible citizenship. This is all good, and I’m all for it. But maybe it’s time to take a cue from the past ...

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Admirable Faculties: Farewell, My Friends

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Friday, August 6, 2010. Farewell, My Friends. This will be the final post here; I am working toward moving my evolving spiel to a new venue, " Not Your Father's School. My hope is to unify some of my thinking, which has been split between this blog and " The New Progressive. I don't really blame all the excited posters and tweeters under whose ...

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Admirable Faculties: The Playing Fields of Eton--and 21st-century Waterloos

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Sunday, March 21, 2010. The Playing Fields of Eton- and 21st-century Waterloos. It’s a lovely picture, progressive in its optimism and focused on the things that education is supposed to be preparing kids for: college, jobs, and responsible citizenship. This is all good, and I’m all for it. But maybe it’s time to take a cue from the past ...

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Admirable Faculties: December 2008

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Saturday, December 27, 2008. Has your school done its "hiring self-study" yet? Rather than concentrating on the individual positions to be filled, the hiring self-study should address "essential questions," such as "What kinds of teachers have succeeded here? Similarly, this is the time to determine how the school will handle internal candidaci...

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Admirable Faculties: January 2009

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About professional culture and professional development in independent schools. For those who recruit, hire, train, and supervise, as well as for those who teach. Wednesday, January 14, 2009. As well as on the specific need- will increase the probability of bringing in appropriate candidates who, as teacher, will be able to deliver to students the programs on whose quality the school's reputation and well-being will depend. Description are not discouraged. Visual content should be inviting; it is pos...