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13 Oct Rethinking Professional Development

Posted at 15:53h in Education

I am cold. Someone is speaking in the front of the room. The PowerPoint presentation lights up the dimmed room like a nightlight in a darkened hallway. I wonder why hotel ballrooms are always so arctically cold. Focus, I tell myself. You will need this information...

23 Sep Helping Culinary Students Reach Their Utmost Potential

Posted at 16:00h in Education

“Come on, Chef Poole, you know I can’t afford to go to college.” Those are not the words a high school culinary instructor wants to hear from one of his most promising senior culinary students, but unfortunately this is my reality. Every year without fail, many...

15 Sep What I Learned in My Graduate Education

Posted at 16:07h in Education

What I learned in my graduate education program: if you want to be a teacher, watch a teacher. Let them watch you. A lot. Honestly, I can’t remember more than a few individual moments of lasting learning from my graduate education classes. Don’t get me wrong;...

26 Aug Independent Evaluation Highlights Positive Impacts of Hope Street Group Kentucky State Teacher Fellows Program

Posted at 02:05h in News

August 26, 2014 An independent evaluation conducted by Policy Studies Associates, Inc. determined that the first year of the Hope Street Group Kentucky State Teacher Fellows Program provided teachers with “a diverse, unique and transferable set of tools, training and resources” and that Kentucky education leaders “valued the...

12 Aug #SupportTheCore = Supporting Our Teachers

Posted at 16:12h in Education

I have had more than my share of memorable moments as a kindergarten teacher, but one sticks out in particular, when I helped open a small charter school several years ago. While it was wonderful to help realize the vision of the school’s founder, she...

07 Aug Common Core Can Develop Our Students’ Global Competency

Posted at 16:20h in Education

In my classroom, a poster with a map of North America states “we are not alone.” Every day, I remind my students that they are, in fact, “not alone in the world,” meaning they are a part of a global community. I frequently encourage my...