by Gerald Aungst | Feb 7, 2013 | Leadership, Policy, Technology
Yesterday I had the enormous privilege and opportunity to participate in the Digital Learning Day national event at the Newseum in Washington, DC. I first got to be part of the opening keynote panel, where I spoke on revitalizing assessment with digital...
by Gerald Aungst | Jan 23, 2013 | Leadership, Professional Development
February Toolkit: Mission and Transfer within the CCSS THINK Before the next faculty meeting, read your district’s mission statement. (Ours is on the district web site.) A well-crafted mission statement is all about transfer: making sure that what we...
by Gerald Aungst | Dec 22, 2012 | Leadership, Professional Development
As part of my district’s plan to realign our curriculum with the Common Core State Standards (which we are calling the C4 Project, for Cheltenham Common Core Curriculum), I will be developing a Toolkit for Principals. Each month, I will prepare...
by Gerald Aungst | Aug 17, 2012 | Education, Leadership
In my last post, I talked about how I believe we have gotten as much mileage out of the current system as we can get. There’s no juice left in the orange, and squeezing it further will just extract bitterness from the rind. I suggested that instead of...
by Gerald Aungst | Mar 26, 2012 | Education, Leadership
In a way, the job of school district administrator is like a tugboat. If you have ever watched a tugboat work, it appears far too small for it’s job of maneuvering huge ships around a crowded harbor. Yet a smart tugboat pilot knows exactly...
by Gerald Aungst | Mar 25, 2012 | Leadership, Learning
Yesterday evening, I was speaking with Tony Baldasaro who noticed a theme running through several of the ASCD sessions he had attended. That theme echoed one I had been noticing as well, and which I have reflected on several times in the past....
