During this remote learning period, one of the technical challenges that needs to be handled is that of accounting for attendance. While it is necessary that schools develop some mechanism for this, there are multiple possible ways of solving the problem. I believe there are two approaches to this that schools might consider and we […]
Read More Attendance, Synchronous, and Asynchronous LearningAnother. I wish that I had the right words, and that the words were enough. Another school shooting. Today at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California. Two students killed, three injured. The shooter, also a student, in grave condition from a self-inflicted gunshot. It is believed the entire incident took 16 seconds. What can […]
Read More The CircleImagine Apple CEO Tim Cook taking the stage at a major tech conference and delivering the following: Here at Apple, our engineers and designers are overworked and underpaid. They are stressed out nearly to the point of being unable to do their jobs. The very best ones are leaving the company and going elsewhere – […]
Read More Our Own Worst EnemiesThis article originally appeared in The Canyon Courier on June 20th, 2019. Earlier this month, we asked an important question of the Jeffco community: should we do something different with Columbine High School? Specifically, we put forth a preliminary proposal to rebuild a new high school west of the current site. The Hope Columbine library, […]
Read More The Columbine QuestionAt the first district all-leadership meeting for 2019, we discussed what is on a lot of people’s minds in our schools right now – budget and construction! While these topics are definitely of great importance, I also wanted to draw the attention of our leaders back to what we call “the main thing” in Jeffco, […]
Read More A Challenge for the New Year
