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Posts tagged Getting Better

Getting Better: Mise En Place, Please

Modeling our own behavior based on the top .0001% in any sector is a fool’s errand. In fact, with all due respect to Einstein, I would argue that maintaining a cluttered desk is counterproductive to success for 99% of us mere mortals.

Getting BetterBen PachtFebruary 11, 2020School Performance Institute, school improvement, Getting Better, high performing schools

Getting Better: Is the 21st Century Really All That Different?

December 31st, 1999 was not your average New Year’s Eve. While excitement about the turn of the century was palpable, uneasiness permeated as the second hand of everybody’s watch made its final revolution of the 20th Century. Y2K, the catchy acronym assigned to the collective nationwide fear that computer systems were doomed to fail at the stroke of midnight, was on the tip of everybody’s tongue.

Getting BetterBen PachtOctober 8, 2019Getting Better, School Performance Institute, school improvement, high performing schools, student achievement