Preserving the Integrity of Your Curriculum
Blog, Accountability, Decision-Making, Educator Insights, Pedagogy, School Leadership, Textbooks | February 21, 2023
Teaching is a unique career, and there are elements of the job that are very dissimilar to other work situations. One is autonomy. When a teacher closes the classroom door and begins the day, he/she is in charge. Routines, classroom management, assignments,...
Does Your School Bus Need to Make a U-Turn?
As an educator, you may feel at times like you are watching your students ride down a bumpy road on a bus going the wrong direction and you are running behind, out of breath, trying to catch up to turn it around. Here I was, as the principal, feeling like we were on...
Accountable or Responsible?
Over the years that I have been involved with Curriculum Trak I have heard many administrators talk about “helping” their staff out by creating curriculum maps for their teachers. “It is a lot to ask of our teachers to create all those maps.” “My staff does...
Mentoring New Teachers: An Essential to a Successful Year
Some things you never forget. I was 21 when I got my first assignment as a fourth-grade teacher in a large Christian school in South Florida. I was 1500 miles from home and oh-so-young. My adventure was greatly enhanced because Spanish was the first language for most...
Teacher Evaluation from a Christian Perspective
Accountability, Leadership | April 15, 2022
This article originally appeared in the CACE Blog on July 21, 2014. “You just hire the best people possible and let them go; there is not much you can do after that.” This is a perspective commonly voiced to me by administrators. Truth be told, teacher evaluation is...