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Author Archives: chrissousa
“Building” Trust – C. Sousa
Trusting relationships are a key factor of successful schools. Building a positive professional level of trust forms the foundation that allows staff, students, and communities to take risks, succeed, fail, and find success again. All staff need to be vested … Continue reading
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Professional Development: We’re all in it together
The other night we had a great conversation at #NHED about professional development. There were great insights, encouragements, and ideas. However, many of the posts also highlighted frustrations, and I found myself at times on both sides of the fence. … Continue reading
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How can we bank Creativity?
Originally Posted on April 13, 2012 by C Sousa I was once told that time is the currency of education. I believe this to be true. We need time to teach our students, to allow them to reach goals, and … Continue reading
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Middle Schools
Middle schools are unique places largely due to their unique student population. Students ages 10 – 14 undergo vast social, emotional, intellectual, and physical changes and it is the role of middle schools to provide an academically challenging curriculum with … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, administrator, amle, Assessment, carnagie, children, collaboration, Common Core standards, communication, compassion, developmentally, education, education reform, middle, middle school, parenting, principal, responsibilities, school, student, teacher, this we believe, turning points
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Parents & Teachers: Assume Best Intentions
Here is a post that I wrote in the Fall. It came up as a topic of conversation and after going back and reading it and the linked article, I thought I would re-post it as it still rings true … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, administrator, autonomy, celebration, children, collaboration, Common Core standards, communication, compassion, courage, education, education reform, parenting, parents, principal, school, student, students, teacher, team, trust
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Building Trust
Trusting relationships are a key factor of successful schools. Building a positive professional level of trust forms the foundation that allows staff, students, and communities to take risks, succeed, fail, and find success again. All staff need to be vested … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, administrator, celebration, children, education reform, feedback, meetings, principal, responsibilities, risk, school, teacher, trust, visibility, walk-throughs
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The Role of the Principal
Recently I was asked about the role of the public school principal, and rather then rattle off a list of responsibilities and duties, we had more of a philosophical discussion. Here is some of my thoughts on the question. The … Continue reading
BLOOMS Poster for the Classroom
The links below are to a photo and a PDF of a poster I created (after seeing a similar one in a teacher’s classroom in Portsmouth NH at an edcamp!) of the updated Blooms taxonomy. Please feel free to take … Continue reading
Do we measure creativity, inquisitiveness, inspiration?
Good question. Below is a link to a video of a Tennessee high school student speaking at a board meeting about school reform and specifically the adoption of the common core and the assessments surrounding it. It is very interesting … Continue reading
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The “lost” art of play
I recently came across this article by psychologist Peter Gray, “The Play Deficit”. In it he describes some of the difficulties children have as they grow up, due in part to a lack of free play time. The article makes … Continue reading
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Tagged celebration, children, education, football, freeplay, games, kids, overscheduled, parenting, play, schedule, school, student
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