The New Jersey Dept of Ed recently (Ed.: February? Really?) announced that it has revised the statewide high school graduation requirements. You can read about all the changes here, but what I’d like to focus on is the new requirement of “2.5 credits in financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy…
Category: Reflection
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
This summer was a lot of things for me and my family, but “relaxing” was not one of them. With a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old (who’s going on 16) to keep entertained, it felt like the summer was a blur of museum visits, amusement park rides, movies, and trips to…
Does Gender Matter?
This post comes to you by way of a discussion my wife (a high school special education teacher) and I were having the other day about school administration and leadership styles. I am about to start the 10th year of my career in education (not counting long- & short-term subbing…
Leadership Day 2009
Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant asks the educational blogging community to write about effective (or ineffective) school technology leadership today. School leadership in general has been on my mind the last few months, and will undoubtedly find its way to this blog sooner rather than later, but to address Dr….
Mapping Out My Mind
The other night, I got to thinking about some things I’ve got coming up on the horizon, both personal and professional. The funny thing about it was that with each new thought, I came up with another two or three tangentially related things I’d like to accomplish. In a way,…