“I believe we need a national PR campaign for skilled labor.” “A big one.” The nation needs younger workers to replace the many tradespeople over 55 who are retiring because “closing the skills gap doesn’t just benefit future tradesmen and the companies desperate to hire them. It benefits people like me, and anyone else who [...]
Together We Are Smarter The Future of Leadership: Technology & the School Leader: Illinois Administrator Academy on Prezi
PCHS Staff, How would your daily classroom procedures, interactions, and practices change if every student had a device connected to the Internet in your classroom? Would what you do daily change? Would what the students do daily change? What advantages to this do you see? What disadvantages do you see? Discuss.
Reading Will Richardson’s Huffington Post Article today reminded me of a blog I wrote here three years ago. I wrote about the National Council of Teachers of English‘s new definition of 21st Century Literacies and how we as a learning community needed to consider them and implement where possible. Let us consider the progress we have made [...]
(Full disclosure: This blog post was inspired by reading Students as Creators of Content by John Bergman and Changing Gears 2012: rejecting the “flip” by Ira David Socol.) So this whole idea of flipping the classroom seems to be all the rage in some circles. A school in Detroit is trying to “flip” most of its [...]
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a parent that has really set me to thinking about many things. Sometimes there are situations where students go way beyond the expectations of educators and achieve what was thought to be unattainable. When students exceed expectations we celebrate those great accomplishments and pat ourselves [...]
Yesterday I was watching the news and a story came on about how crowded the amusement resorts were in Orlando, Florida this past week. The story made the presumption that people were tired of putting off vacations and being frugal because of the (now easing?) recession and are ready to live a little. That story [...]
O.K. I am really going to date myself here, but whenever I hear ”Thanks for the Memories”, Bob Hope’s theme song, I feel a warm wave calmness come over me. It brings back strong memories of a childhood being brought up in a home where no Bob Hope special went unwatched. Those memories are blended with emotions of [...]
Staff, The other day I was asked to present at one of the local service clubs about our proposed academy program for next year. When I was finished, I asked if there were any questions or comments. A parent stood (I was thinking oh no….here we go) and said, “Mr. Meister, I just want [...]
The current Paris High School was completed in 1909 with students and teachers occupying the new building in February of that year. The building has served the Paris community well for over a 100 years. Last spring, the Boards of Education in Paris asked their constituents for permission to sell $12,000,000 in bonds to finance [...]
