Recently I was asked to write a blurb about my plans for my doctoral dissertation – what it is and why I’m interested in it. Here’s what I had to say: *** My research will focus on analyzing and evaluating how a suburban K-12 school district in NJ has implemented…
Category: Ed Leadership
Further Flipping
Hot on the heels of a successful inaugural flipped faculty meeting (FFM) in January, our school held another one in lieu of our traditional weekly faculty meeting on February 25, 2013. Things seemed to run a little more smoothly in general simply because it wasn’t our first time at this particular…
How We Flipped Our Faculty Meeting
On January 14, 2013, my school held its first “Flipped Faculty Meeting” (FFM). Just as the “flipped classroom” model seeks to relegate rote content delivery to non-class time and make more efficient use of face-to-face (F2F) time in class, the idea of the flipped faculty meeting – at least…
Mind Over Mudder
Much is made in my ed leadership doctoral program of goals: organizational goal-setting, alignment with vision/mission, monitoring progress, etc. Though I hadn’t originally intended to blog about this recent life event*, when I think about it in terms of goal-setting, it seems to parallel much of what my coursework has focused…
Unconferencing the University
Last week saw my second of two Edcamp/unconference events in as many months: first was Edcamp Leadership at the end of July, then came WilmU LeaderCamp on August 11. WULC was hosted by the university at which I am a doctoral student, Wilmington University, and organized by four doctoral students: Chrissi Miles,…