ESPrit de Corps

A few weeks ago, I posted the following query on the ESP Facebook page
” ESP started as a NYSCA program. Does it end, as NYSCA ends “Empire State Partnership” grants? Or does ESP endure? If so, how?”
Floyd Rumohr, former Executive Director of Stages of Learning  (a frequent ESP grantee) drafted a very […]

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I’d heard about this amazing lecture from friends, but finally watched it myself.
I think it falls into the category of REQUIRED WATCHING.  It’s a little long, so let it down load.  It’s totally worth the wait!

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As someone who has been a part of every Summer Seminar since 1998, I have some terrific memories from the past 11 summers.   As we build up to this year’s Seminar, the 13th annual, I’ll share a few of my most memorable moments.  I don’t want to monopolize the stroll down memory lane, of course, […]

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[Anne Rhodes responded to recent posts on the Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century]
I would like to focus on one area that came up again and again in the Summer Seminar conversations: Many things changing very rapidly.
Here are some of the notes from those conversations:
Speed of change is increasing. We see exponential growth and […]

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Hello friends and colleagues!
We are now ready to launch this discussion / inquiry / wondering about how best to help our young people prepare for the challenges they will face as this century unfolds. 
I have in mind three broad questions for us to wrestle with, and they are about defining the world we will face, […]

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This past week Phil and I attended an Americans for the Arts webinar called The Qualities of Quality:  Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve it, presented by Steve Seidel.  (You can download the Executive Summary here.)  An interesting part of the research findings that Seidel described was that among the […]

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So in my last blog post (also my first blog post), I talked about how starting up a blog was not dissimilar to a first kiss. Well - since the post was from a month ago, I guess I set myself up as the guy who didn’t call the next day. Trust me, it wasn’t […]

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I’ve found that posting for the the first time to a blog is kind of like your first kiss with someone. Too spontaneous and it could be awkward. However, there’s certainly the downside to over thinking it. You want it to be packed with meaning and, deep down, maybe fear that it doesn’t mean as […]

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When I was asked by Phil Alexander to contribute to ESPrit de Corps I naturally asked him what might be a good specific focus.  He responded by telling me that I should write about some habits of mine.   I’ve thought about this, and, I’m sorry Phil but I won’t be doing that.  As Mark Twain […]

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One of the things I have tried to encourage this year (07-08) is discussion of certain topics by the staff that are related to education and that could have a positive impact on how we teach. I feel that it is important, no matter how good we think we are, to strive to learn new […]

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