Emily Douglas

Emily Douglas, USA, Leadership & Management

Emily Douglas joined Battelle for Kids, a nonprofit that provides strategic counsel and innovative solutions for school districts, state education departments, and nonprofits globally, in 2009. She works with organizations on projects pertaining to comprehensive human capital change management, strategic compensation, process improvement, staffing, strategic planning, workforce development, staff evaluation, and organizational redesign efforts.

In 2013 she was selected by Workforce Magazine from a pool of international HR practitioners under 40 years old, from all industries, as an 'HR Game Changer.'

Emily has her Masters in Labor and Human Resources (MLHR) and her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and her Bachelor’s degree from Miami University. She has also obtained her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) and Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification (SPHR). Recently she completed a certificate from Cornell University pertaining to social media management.

K-12 Talent Manager - currently offline
In this blog Emily Douglas, Human Capital Director at Battelle for Kids, explores effective human capital strategies for recruiting, selecting, developing, and recognizing educators and non-instructional staff in schools to ensure the best learning experience for students.

This blog is hosted by Education Week, the worlds largest K-12 education-focused newspaper. This blog is very different in the education space. As more districts and state agencies in the United States shift their focus to leadership and management of people, as we are seeing other successful ed-focused countries doing, more and more people will have questions about how to recruit, select, place, grown, reward, evaluate, and remove or retain, the right people! The blogs readership and twitter-traction have grown drastically over the past year!

Theme: talent, human resources, human capital, administration, management, leadership, training, recruiting, retention, teacher compensation, policy, leadership, placement, evaluation

Cynthia Charles

Cynthia Charles, USA, Higher Education, Faculty Professional Development

Cynthia J. Charles is the Interim Director/College of General Education Library Liaison, of the Will W. Alexander Library at Dillard University. She’s also the Creator/Blogger/Administrator of the Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology Blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed, Wiki and MOODLE web applications.

Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology
The Dillard University Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology (DUCTLAT) is essential in helping faculty effectively manage technology on and off campus.

An important aspect of this initiative is achieved by bringing groups of faculty members together to learn the technology necessary to develop electronic resources for their courses and themselves, while planning and beginning the development of shared curricular materials.

Cultivating faculty success at all levels reinforces the University's commitment to build premier faculty learning communities. All faculty, deans and academic administrators play a critical role in creating competitive and productive academic units in which expectations for faculty performance are clearly articulated and professional achievements are recognized and rewarded.

The goals of the CTLAT at Dillard University are to...
1. Encourage research of effective teaching.
2. Improve teaching mastery of the faculty.
3. Enhance effective, discipline-based pedagogy
Increase research support for faculty.

The CTLAT supports faculty through...
1. Professional development programs targeted to faculty from early career through senior leadership.
2. Print and online resources to inform and educate.
3. Analyses of trends and models of practice for faculty retention, advancement and contributions

Theme: blackboard, learning, technology, management, faculty, education

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Julia Skinner

Julia Skinner, UK, Primary, Secondary

Retired primary head teacher who is finding that there is a role I can play blogging & supporting bloggers.

The Head's Office
Space for teachers, governors & parents to comment, share ideas and debate on all things educational.

Theme: education, learning, support, teachers, headteachers, parents, management, governors

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Alberto Lindner

Alberto Lindner, Venezuela, Pregrado, Postgrado, Gerencia

Profesor Asociado de la Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas Venezuela. Postgrados en Gerencia y Tecnología Educativa. Consultor de cambio organizacional.

FacilityManager
Espacio virtual dedicado a la discusión de ideas acerca de la Consultoría Artesana, como un facilitador de procesos, que trabaja desde las herramientas con las que cuenta la empresa.

Theme: servicios, consultoría, artesanal, facilitador, procesos, sistemas, holístico, inmuebles

services, consultancy, craft, facilitator, processes, systems, holistic properties

Kevin Blissett

Kevin Blissett, China, Secondary, TOK, English, Spanish

was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. While growing up, I excelled in sports and academics, attending advanced program schools in the public system and studying on the honors track at a parochial high school. I played American football for eight years and also played on basketball and baseball teams. Upon graduating from high school, I served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the New Mexico-Albuquerque Mission (Spanish speaking). From there I enrolled at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and graduated in three years on full and partial tuition scholarships.

I was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi national honor society and into Sigma Delta Pi, the Hispanic studies honor society. My post graduate work took me to Vanderbilt University School of Law (degree incomplete) and then to the University of Louisville, again on full-tuition scholarship, where I did my master’s work. I spent ten years as a Spanish and Humanities teacher in the Jefferson County Public School system where I also assumed leadership positions. Moreover, I enjoyed serving as a football and track coach.

I had my first experience in international education at the Busan Foreign School in Korea. From there I moved on to China where I’ve been serving as the principal of the international department of Xi’an Hi-Tech International School in Xi’an, China.

Kevin Blissett: Out of the Cave - currently offline
A blog discussing educational issues, with a focus on technology, administrative tools, and curriculum.

Kevin Blissett: Out of the Cave - old blog

Theme: curriculum, technology, classroom 2.0, management, inquiry, blogs, social media, university admission

Jeremy Zweiacker

Jeremy Zweiacker, Oklahoma, USA, Secondary, Post-Secondary, Careertech, Career and Technical Education

I am the State Tech Prep and Alliance Coordinator for Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Tech Prep
Tech Prep in Oklahoma and everything that goes with it. Enrollment Management, Recruitment, Retention and Transitions to College and Career.

Theme: careertech, votech, tech prep college, transitions, enrollment, management, career, recruitment, retention

Ruth Wells

Ruth Wells, USA, K-12, Difficult and At Risk Students

Youth Change and Ruth Wells are your best source of exciting new strategies to teach troubled, at risk and problem youth and children.

The Problem Student Classroom Management Problem-Solver
Classroom Management Problems Solved Here. Hundreds of solutions for ADD, Asperger's, school failure, disrespect, work refusal, tardiness, bad attitudes and more.

Free sample interventions and free Problem Student Problem-Solver magazine at Youth Change.

Theme: classroom, management, help, education, teachers, ADD, aspergers, violent, special ed, at risk, solution, teacher

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Andrew Churches

Andrew Churches, New Zealand, Secondary

Andrew Churches is the curriculum manager for ICT at Kristin School and co-director of an ICT PD cluster with Whangaparaoa College. Andrew is a keen ICT innovator, edublogger, and outdoor educator, having recently returned from a school trip to Nepal's Annapurna region.

A regular presenter at national and international conferences, Andrew has a passion for teaching, learning and the 21st century learner and educator.

Educational Origami
This is a blog about education in its many form. Its main focus is Information and Communication Technologies and Pedagogy, but its not limited to this. It’s a secondary school focus.

Theme: Technology, Computers, integration, management and pedagogy