“Managing from the Middle”…oh…wait…no…I meant “Leading from the Middle”

Yesterday I learned that the Basic Skills Committee at Fresno City College (where I teach) will be paying for my tuition at the Leading from the Middle Academy—an initiative of the RP Group (i.e., Research & Planning Group for California Community Colleges). I’m pleased I was offered this chance to attend the Academy & learn…

Presentation on Teacherpreneurship (Part 3, bibliography)

Aquí is a short (& certainly incomplete) list of resources on teacherpreneurship that shaped my thinking for my Flex Day presentation notes & Prezi. Tina Barseghian, “What the Heck is a ‘Teacherpreneur’?” Mind/Shift, 11 April 2011, http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/04/what-the-heck-is-a-teacherpreneur/ Barnett Berry & the TeacherSolutions 2030 Team, “The Coming Age of the Teacherpreneur,” Education Week, 6 October 2010,…

Presentation on Teacherpreneurship (Part 2, speaking notes)

What follows is a narrative version of the speaker notes from my Spring semester Flex Day session (Friday 6 January 2012) on Teacherpreneurship. The original notes were in outline form but I’ve converted them here into sentence & paragraph form (hence, they may sound a bit disjointed). “Teacherpreneurship” The problem is that educators often work…