Professional Development Should Be a Team Sport
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle For me it was always the worst week of the school year. For the first 34 years of my career, I dreaded the August in-service. During each and every one...
View ArticleThe Wrong Basic Instincts
By Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader, and author of The Algebra Miracle. It was a lesson learned on the frontlines of education. As the 2013-14 school year unfolds across the country that experience...
View ArticleAn Homage to Today’s Educators
By Stuart L. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle I look at my retirement with a blend of joy and sorrow. I love that the pension provided by my forty years of service allows me to pursue many of my...
View ArticleWhat is Too Much Help?
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle The contradictory nature of comments drew my attention. “This is the perfect school – really. They do great things – very innovative, research-based...
View ArticleNot the Best Administrative Fix
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle Creating arbitrary rules is rarely the best solution in education. Two days into the new school year a former colleague told me of a sad revelation....
View ArticleMaking Faculty Meetings Time Well Spent
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle If Charles Dickens had spent a few decades attending faculty meetings, he might have written: “They were the best of times; they were the worst of...
View ArticleThe Hidden Attendance Problems
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle This is the first of three posts on student attendance and classroom disruptions from the perspective of the classroom teacher. Part two will address...
View ArticleEducation is a True Team Game
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle While some people might dismiss the importance of creating the proper mindset within a school’s faculty as critical for improving academic success,...
View ArticleAttendance is a Two Sided Affair
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle This is the second of three posts on student attendance and classroom disruptions from the perspective of the classroom teacher. Part three will...
View ArticleMore than just numbers
By Stuart A. Singer, Author of The Algebra Miracle Perhaps because I am a former math teacher I cannot help myself. Maybe my extensive coaching background is what makes it even more compelling....
View ArticlePISA Results: Good, Bad and Ugly
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle The latest numbers from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have been released and not surprisingly the handwringing began before...
View ArticleIs there a place for boredom in education?
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle In 2014 does all learning have to be entertaining? In a recent Slate article Konstantin Kakaes, a Schwartz Scholar at the New America Foundation,...
View ArticleStop Patching Education!
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle and a forty-year veteran math teacher. This is the first in a series of rants from a frustrated educational writer. At the intersection of politics...
View ArticleWhat is Too Much Help?
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle The contradictory nature of comments drew my attention. “This is the perfect school – really. They do great things – very innovative, research-based...
View ArticleNot the Best Administrative Fix
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle Creating arbitrary rules is rarely the best solution in education. Two days into the new school year a former colleague told me of a sad revelation....
View ArticleMaking Faculty Meetings Time Well Spent
By Stuart Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle If Charles Dickens had spent a few decades attending faculty meetings, he might have written: “They were the best of times; they were the worst of...
View ArticleThe Hidden Attendance Problems
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle This is the first of three posts on student attendance and classroom disruptions from the perspective of the classroom teacher. Part two will address...
View ArticleEducation is a True Team Game
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle While some people might dismiss the importance of creating the proper mindset within a school’s faculty as critical for improving academic success,...
View ArticleAttendance is a Two Sided Affair
By Stuart A. Singer, author of The Algebra Miracle This is the second of three posts on student attendance and classroom disruptions from the perspective of the classroom teacher. Part three will...
View ArticleMore than just numbers
By Stuart A. Singer, Author of The Algebra Miracle Perhaps because I am a former math teacher I cannot help myself. Maybe my extensive coaching background is what makes it even more compelling....
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