School Empowerment Group

Unlock teacher potential and transform education. Greg Fisher August 3, 2024 All schools mandate professional development (PD) for their faculty. Most of the time it is contracted from outside the school, either the district or private professional consultants and coaches. Instead of depending on external sources of PD, why not tap into the skills and…

by Greg Fisher February 5, 2023 If you hang around schools long enough, you will hear the term “engagement” so often it will eventually lose its meaning. “We need to engage students in the learning process” is the common refrain. Although I don’t disagree with the impulse, let’s be clear here. All the courses’ students…

January 16, 2023 Greg Fisher Whenever I walk onto a school site, I immediately get a sense of its culture. After more than three decades in education, I know what to look for. My radar is finely tuned. Through witnessing a combination of verbal and non-verbal communication, the overt and subtle behaviors, I get a…

January 7, 2023 Greg Fisher Is there more than one way to design and run a Teacher Evaluation program? Of course there is. But why does the vast majority of schools’ deploy anachronistic and obsolete systems that are devoid of positive outcomes and don’t lead to significant improvement in instruction and student achievement? The reason…

December 29, 2022 Greg Fisher Teacher Evaluation is at an inflection point. There is a growing realization that the mandated process is perfunctory, flawed, and meaningless. If the purpose is that teacher evaluation is to improve teaching and learning, then it has not met its intended goals. If the purpose is to weed out substandard…