A Better Path to Learning

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  • Stick Up for Your Learning!

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    This is an article originally authored by me and printed by The Education Game. I’m sharing it again today since I’ve had several requests to release it again. Consider it the beginning of A Better Path to Learning’s “Best of the Best.” When I was a high school principal, I was visited by many middle-class…

  • Do You Own a Learning Plan?

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    Every learner should have a learning plan. Adult learners. Young learners. Every learner. What’s a learning plan? Well, let’s start with what a learning plan is not. A learning plan is not a lesson plan, nor is it a scope and sequence, or a curriculum guide. Lesson plans, scopes and sequences, and curriculum guides attempt…

  • Let’s Admit It! We Hate Teachers.

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    Last night I was reading my hometown newspaper, the Avoca (Iowa) Journal-Herald, and came upon an article that announced the local school board’s decision to increase teacher salaries for the upcoming school year. When I saw what the beginning salary was going to be for an Avoca teacher I almost fell of the couch. The…

  • The Law to Fix Learning is 57 Years Old Today!

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    57 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) into law. The ESEA extended our federal government’s influence into public education, which was previously reserved mostly to the individual states. The act approved federal funding to improve professional development for teachers, equip America’s classrooms with improved instructional materials, provided…