Author: Nelson Coulter I recently read A Leader’s Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom: Creating Support Systems for Teacher Success by John R. Wink (2017). JRW does an excellent job of providing a comprehensive framework to ensure optimal learning for ALL students. My top takeaways: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can be matched to Wink’s Hierarchy of Student Excellence, from a teacher efficacy perspective. A …

Author: Nelson Coulter There are two big drivers in our personal learning journeys: 1) Process, and 2) Outcomes. The Learning Processes entail things like: The content we consume — the knowledge, skills, ways of thinking, and ways of behaving The pace at which we learn it — the speed, which can be slow and steady, or it can be on steroids The products we generate — …

Author: Nelson Coulter Achieving continuous improvement in organizations is a tough slog. The efforts of each individual or division in the organization certainly helps. The stacking up of those efforts can be thought of as the addends in a mathematical sum. Looks something like this: a + b + c + d + e + ….. = Improvement A more …

Authors: Co-written by CEN Chief of Staff Dr. Rachael McClain and Chat.OpenAI If you have been engaging in the virtual learning series hosted by CEN over the past few months featuring Dr. Bill Daggett, you should have heard two common themes: GPT3 (and 4, 5….) will result in a tremendous shift in technology’s impact on education and life in general. Savvy …

Author: Nelson Coulter The difference in Gurus and Charlatans is more often in the delivery than in the substance. Most of us have a few of those Yoda-type Gurus whose insight is highly sought (and even occasionally heeded). What often has the effect of fingernails scratching along a chalkboard is advice that is unsolicited. Yet, the Charlatans feel compelled to …