Entries Tagged as 'From Dave Boliek, QTL CEO'

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Stop This Train That’s Going in the Wrong Direction

By Dave Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
I’m starting to write before I finish reading and that’s liable to be dangerous, but I have just gotten through the introduction of a just released report and recommend it to you.  A bunch of school superintendents in Texas, sincerely PO’d at the current system of [...]

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Dropouts - Fighting the Wrong Fight?

Dave Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
The studies are legion.  The recommendations plentious.  Dollars spent - phenominal.  Yet after 30-40 years of hand-wringing over “the dropout problem” there’s no real progress; we still lose about a third of our ninth graders to the dropout zone rather than 12th grade graduation.  There are a [...]

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Where Does Creativity Go?

Dave Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
Several years ago at the National School Boards Association’s Technology and Learning conference in Denver, I heard a talk by Sir Ken Robinson, a British ex-patriot now living in California.  Sir Ken’s philosophy is that creativity should be as important a priority in schools as literacy.
One of [...]

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Engaged Students Don’t Drop Out.

David L. Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
I couldn’t sleep the other morning and was chasing down research on dropouts and dropout prevention. We all know there are umpty-hundred reasons young people drop out, but if you go to “The Silent Epidemic” where Civic Enterprises interviewed real, live dropouts who try to [...]

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The Plugged-In School

By Dave Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
The National Staff Development Council recently in its Learning System publication detailed a mythical “plugged-in” school in which districts harness technology to attract and retain new teachers.
This is worth your time to read this report and reflect on the possibilities. Folks like my friend, Dave [...]

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

High Impact Instruction

Robin Fred
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
A great teacher has more impact on a student’s success than perhaps any other factor.  I’m sitting in a presentation that my colleague Rachel Porter is leading at North Carolina’s Summer Conference for Career & Technical Educators.  She’s talking about the different types of learners and how to [...]

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Avoidable Losses: How High Stakes Accountability Rewards High Schools for Pushing Kids Out

David L. Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning

The system spawned by No Child Left Behind can and has led to schools encouraging low performing students to drop out. Say what?!?!? If you dump low performers, school scores go up.
Yep. A study released Jan 31, 2008 and viewed only [...]

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Collaboration Gains Student a National Award

Dave Boliek
QTL CEO
The great leveler in education is innovation in a context of collaborative, high quality teaching that focuses on meeting identified student needs. When educators work toward that goal… things change and change bigtime.
More often than not teachers work in their own silo… their own content area… their own classroom. It’s the [...]