by Jim Knight | Feb 12, 2013 | Student Learning |
“The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree… We reap exactly what we sow.” Indian Home Rule, M.K. Gandhi When I first read Mahatma...
by Jim Knight | Nov 17, 2010 | School Reform, Student Learning |
Standardized testing has received a lot of criticism these days. For many, standardized tests embody all that is wrong in schools. Many justifiably claim that standardized tests prompt educators to obsessively focus on a few key variables and that that narrow focus...
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...
