by Jim Knight | Oct 17, 2012 | School Reform |
After a long break, during which I wrote my new book High-Impact Instruction, I’m bringing back the Radical Learners blog. The columns will be posted each Wednesday, and I’ll include my own thoughts along with the thoughts of guest authors. When I started...
by Jim Knight | Jan 16, 2011 | Professional Learning |
This is a guest post by Joanne Romano, a leader, mentor of instructional coaches, technology superstar and educational consultant. You can contact her at [email protected] or follow her on twitter @joanner. Am I a Radical Learner? No doubt about it, I am on a crazy...
by Jim Knight | Nov 7, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning |
[People] who lack humility (or have lost it) cannot come to the people, cannot be their partners in naming the world … Dialogue cannot exist without humility. Paulo Freire What does it mean to teach with humility? I think more than anything it means to ensure that...
by Jim Knight | Nov 2, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Self-Coaching |
In his book Masterful Coaching, Robert Hargrove makes a simple distinction that I’ve been thinking about ever since I read it. There are two types of coaching, he says: Push and Pull. Push Coaching, Hargrove says, occurs when coaches start with a series of ideas and...
by Jim Knight | Nov 1, 2010 | Student Learning |
My wife, Jenny, has decided that she doesn’t want to know the rules of football. Growing up in Nebraska, surrounded by football fans, it took some fortitude to not learn how the game is played, but she stuck to it, and she is blissfully unaware of the magic and...
