When you think back to the best manager, boss, or leader you have ever had, what are the traits or characteristics you remember? As a principal, there were several things I liked to do to make sure that my teachers felt supported. It is important that our teachers feel like they are valued, a part of a community, and what they are doing matters. 
These are listed of ideas, in no particular order, because...

As early childhood professionals, we each have a philosophy on teaching, classroom management, family engagement, and curriculum, to name only a few. Starting today, we must make sure that if our philosophies don’t already include play, we begin developing that vital...

C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report

Nuclear weapons have been used twice in warfare: in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.  As the threat of nuclear warfare drew closer last year, it was announced that Beatrice Fihn and her advocacy group, The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), had won the...

If you’ve been in education for any length of time, you know you can count on one thing: things are going to change. The latest, greatest educational reform-whether if it comes from the federal, state or local level (or all of them) will surely impact your school and classroom. Reform, plainly speaking, is the nature of education. And if you’re going to survive for any amount of time in this profession, you must learn to ride these waves.

Just in the last decade, education has...