{"id":2850,"date":"2013-09-19T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2013-09-19T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T14:24:57","slug":"need-some-topics-for-faculty-meetings-or-school-wide-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Need Some Topics for Faculty Meetings or School Wide Goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for topics\/practices to tackle in your faculty meetings or administrator think tanks, then Alfie Kohn probably has some possible opportunities in his recent blog, &#8220;Encouraging Educator Courage,&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0Education Week<\/span>, September 18.\u00a0 Kohn, the author of several books including<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> The Homework Myth<\/span> (2006) and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Schools Our Children Deserve<\/span> (199), writes on human behavior, education and parenting.<\/p>\n<p>This recent blog is a good follow-up to the VASSP September 18 blog &#8220;Faculty Meetings Should Mean Something.&#8221;\u00a0 In Kohn&#8217;s blog, there are several potential topics or processes that may be worth sharing with your staff\u00a0 for debate, discussion and even application in their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>You may access Kohn&#8217;s blog at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2013\/09\/18\/04kohn.h33.html?cmp=ENL-EU-MOSTPOP\">http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2013\/09\/18\/04kohn.h33.html?cmp=ENL-EU-MOSTPOP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for topics\/practices to tackle in your faculty meetings or administrator think tanks, then Alfie Kohn probably has some possible opportunities in his recent blog, &#8220;Encouraging Educator Courage,&#8221; \u00a0Education Week, September 18.\u00a0 Kohn, the author of several books including The Homework Myth (2006) and The Schools Our Children Deserve (199), writes on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=2850\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-topics-for-staff-meetings","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}