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  • Our Public School System is Experiencing Catastrophic Failure

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    I ran across an interesting article on the web recently. It was written by Leks Drakos, a self-described rogue academic with a PhD from the University of Kent, whose research interests include human resources, diversity/equity/inclusion/accessibility, contemporary culture, post-apocalyptica, and monster studies. Drakos wrote the article for Process St., a group who builds processes for businesses…

  • Friday News Roundup…

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    It’s Friday! Time for another installment of the “Friday News Roundup.” Let’s get to it! The U.S. Suffers From a Substitute Teacher Shortage (NPR) According to a NPR story earlier this week, schools don’t have enough short-term teachers to fill in the gaps for regular teachers missing a day. District in Illinois are now holding…

  • Best of the Best: School’s Out!

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    I know I promised a column on The Learning Plan today, the step after The Scouting Report, but a request for “Best of the Best” came in and should take priority. So, I’m sharing “School’s Out,” an article I wrote with a group of forward learning thinkers awhile back. The Learning Plan column will be…

  • Do You Know Where You Are with Your Own Learning?

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    For a learning plan to be effective, you must start with a personal needs assessment determining where you currently when it comes to the learning skills you want to improve on. A few years ago, I was fortunate to partner with Matt Barnes, a dedicated parent coach and learning creator, in Texas to launch The…

  • It’s Time to Draw a Line in the Sand

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    The traditional urban school district is broken, can’t be fixed, and must be replaced. Andy Smarick, Urban School Systems of the Future, 2012 People were shocked when Andy Smarick wrote this about America’s urban school districts 10 years ago. But today, very few urban school districts have shown any noticeable progress in getting black, brown,…

  • Friday News Roundup…

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    Welcome to A Better Path to Learning’s first “Friday News Roundup,” where we review the news that impacts your access to better learning. Teacher Job Satisfaction Hits an All-Time Low (EdWeek) According to the Merrimack College Teacher Survey released this week, only 12% of the more than 1,300 teachers surveyed said they were “very satisfied”…

  • 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…