Good morning, I hope you are having a good week.  I’m writing this between days one and two of the Center’s annual Equity Institute, which is fabulous and a total emotional overload.  Yesterday morning we spent time in the galleries at the Wadsworth, where we hold the institute in partnership with the Amistad Center.  Last night we watched I Am Shakespeare, Henry Green’s story, told on film by Henry, a New Haven man who was shot and critically injured, who recovered for
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Good evening, I hope you are doing well.  I love fall, it’s my favorite season, so it makes me happy to see the leaves starting to change color and know that we are in for a visual treat over the next few weeks. Thank you for the feedback on the Coaching Letter I sent out last week about Portrait of the Graduate.  It is clear that the self-assessment that I attached has legs. Someone I talked to today called a
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Good evening, I hope you’re well.  There’s a terrific storm right over my house as I write this, and the rain is bucketing down. This Coaching Letter is about the Portrait of the Graduate work that I’ve been involved in under CAPSS’ leadership.  The Nellie Mae Education Foundation supports many education projects in the Northeast, including this one.  The grant allows CAPSS to work with participating districts to support them in developing a Portrait of the Graduate (PoG)—some districts have
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Hi, I hope this finds you well.  I have had a terrific few days, with the participants at the CAPSS/UCONN Women in District Office series, and the Center’s Coaching Institute.  Regarding the former, we’re starting a mailing list for current and aspiring district leaders.  We will add the names of everyone who came on Friday, and if you weren’t there but would like to be added, please click here and include your name in the body of the email.  The
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A couple of years ago, I was sitting in a high school principal’s office, and she was bemoaning the state of instruction in her school.  “The problem,” she said, “is that teachers don’t plan.”  First decision point: I did not ask her to clarify how she knew that that was the problem.  “So I’m going to start telling them to turn in their lesson plans.”  Second decision point: I chose to engage this time, and asked her how she was
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Hello!  Thanks for all the messages about learning goals as they can be leveraged in organizations.  I have enjoyed the exchanges and I’m glad so many people found the ideas useful. Sometime last spring I decided that we should have a summer book club, and I chose Humble Inquiry, by Ed Schein.  I had all kinds of big plans.  Then before I knew it, the end of the semester was upon me, I had no real plan for how this
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