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Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.04.18.13 Engineering Better Practice…for Students
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Julie Kennedy is about as humble and down-to-earth as they come. If you met her, you might not guess that she’s a Managing Director at Uncommon Schools and that next year she’ll supervise and manage a dozen of New York City’s highest performing schools. She’d certainly never go out of her way to tell you she’s a…
03.30.13 Standardized Tests: Necessary but not Sufficient…but also Highly Correlated to College Success
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One thing you’ll hear about standardized tests is that they don’t really measure the things students need to do to succeed in college. That may be true. As a school administrator I always wanted to message to staff and students and others that high scores were necessary but not sufficient: necessary in that almost no one who is…
03.19.13 Annals of Coaching: Chris Condron’s Desert Island Drill
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Well, soccer fans and coaching geeks, it’s time for the latest installment of Desert Island Drills, in which I ask a coach to describe the one drill they’d take with them to a desert island–assuming, I suppose, that they also had a team there that they were trying to prepare for long-term success. Previous posts here and here. This…