Cervantes monument Taking time out from my observation blog posts to write up a trip report. For the past few winters, Devorah and I have been trying to spend a few days somewhere warmer. Not necessarily warm, but warmer. We've done San Diego twice then Charleston and last year Savannah. We were thinking of New Orleans this time around but we're going there for the CSTA conference in July so started looking around.

Following up on my last post, let's dive in to being oberved as a model for teacher improvement and teacher evaluation. Next time we'll look at the flip side - teachers observing for improvement. As I mentioned last time, I'm writing about New York City public schools but would be interested in hearing what things are like in other locations and other types of institutions. Evaluation and improvement - that's the line but it's rarely the case.

Back in for the evening. Not in Barcelona anymore - spending a few days now in Madrid. Sadly, I got a message from a fellow CS Educator who lives in Barcelona the day we left so if any reader out there is in Madrid - I'm here a couple more days - let me know. For the post at hand, I read this post the other day by Mark Guzdial and it got me thinking about a number of things.