Oct 26, 2018 | Educational Support Services
Change is a part of life. Consider the Monarch Butterfly that so many of us are fond of and that inhabits the Central Coast every winter. From an egg, it changes into a caterpillar, eats milkweed ravenously until it’s time to form a chrysalis, and then it goes through...
Oct 22, 2018 | Educational Support Services
We won’t have deeper learning for our students if we don’t have deeper learning for ourselves as educators. Highly effective professional learning experiences are a critical component in building the capacity of everyone in our school systems. Collective capacity...
Oct 8, 2018 | Educational Support Services
Our work in education is steeped in challenges; both systemic challenges and individual ones, small and large. We tend to pursue solutions based on the way that problems are defined and we define problems according to our interpretation of what we observe. The work...
Sep 20, 2018 | Educational Support Services
There is no question that school business is complex. From the days of the one room schoolhouse, the utilization of public moneys for the educating our children brings layers of complexity and accountability that are particularly endemic to school business. The...
Sep 17, 2018 | Educational Support Services
What comes to mind when you think about culture? This expression is used often, but conceptualized in different ways. To a jazz musician, a mention of culture may conjure images of a jazz combo on a New Orleans street corner. To a biologist, thoughts of cultivating...