Thinking always came easier to me than speaking, but I learned to enjoy speaking and made a career speaking. Speaking came easier to me than writing, but I learned enjoy writing and now my thinking as improved.
Following are some of the publications I have written.
Synergizing Success: Academic and Career Integration for CTE is a publication from the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). This book itself is a synergistic effort involving many educators. It describes 17 different models of integrating Academic and CTE instruction in high schools. My co-editor and author is Dr. Jill Ranucci from Texas. In addition, another dozen writers offer their expertise and stories of effective collaboration among CTE and Academic teachers.
I developed two CTE Learn courses (2020) for ACTE’s Online Professional Learning Network while working with the NYS CTE Technical Assistance Center. These are short (4 hour) online personal professional development resources targeting Career and Technical Education Leaders. Develop Soft Skills in CTE describes strategies for defining, measuring and nurturing positive work habits and professional skills. Role of CTE in High School Improvement describes the important support CTE provides to meet community and school leader expectations for school excellence,
Career Readiness Data Handbook: Measure What Matters (2018) I wrote with Craig Mertler, offers practical suggestions to teachers and administrators for using data to answer the thirteen most common questions regarding student achievement in Career and Technical Education and reaching career readiness. This product is on the New York State CTE Technical Assistance Center website.
CTE Instructional Leadership (2018) co-authored with Dr. Kathy Weigel – The resource focuses on how leaders can use relationships and reflectionto raise student achievement in technical and academic skills. The book includes 20 chapters on relevant topics for CTE including videos, and links to activities, and further resources. Download the iBook format of CTE Instructional Leadership. Download a PDF version of the iBook CTE Instructional Leadership which explores the unique challenges of instructional leadership for CTE programs in high school.
Overwhelm Cultural Inertia: Reshape School Culture to Truly Reflect College AND Career Readiness (2016) co-authored with Dr. Kathy Weigel is a paper on school leadership practices on changing culture to create as tehy embrace the goal of preparing students for college and career. The challenge is to elevate these instructional practices to a culture that benefits all students. This is still hosted on the Successful Practices, NYS CTE Technical Assistance Center website.
Three Publications on Developing Professional Skills on the New York State CTE Technical Assistance Center website (2016).
Life/Career Abilities Framework: Begin with the End in Mind — Soft skills is the learning domain that contributes significantly to student career readiness and leads to future job success. To develop these abilities, schools should follow the “begin with the end in mind” approach. This framework helps educators define a list of life/career behaviors that can be observed.
Data Practices for Developing Life Career Abilities — This is an introduction to one of the keys in developing Life/Career Abilities (soft skills and non-cognitive skills). Schools cannot fully improve practices in facilitating student’s development of these skills until staff begins to quantify and measure these essential behaviors.
Nurturing Student Development of Life/Career Abilities — Life/career abilities cannot and should not be taught or tested in the same manner we handle other subjects. Using a nurturing approach is one way to define the teaching practices needed to develop students’ life/career abilities.
Leadership for College and Career Readiness (2017)– This paper co-written with Kathy Weigel describes the leadership practices to shift to a balance of student college and career readiness and re-emphasize career. It focuses on three key strategies, Dynamics, Direction and Diligence to include. ten key strategies
International Center for Leadership in Education – Out of Publication
I wrote several of the professional development publications for the International Center for Leadership in Education from early 1990’s to 2010. Several of these were marketed by first by ICLE, then Scholastic and then HMH. All of these are no longer for sale. Links shown enable reading several of these publications in PDF format.
Instructional Leadership: Quadrant D Leadership Practices. International Leadership in Education, 2010. This was a professional development kit with written content and video. This was the last of the kits produced and tied emphasized the leader role in introducing rigorous and relevant instruction. This refreshed the earlier Leadership for RRR and added the model of Quadrant D Leadership.
Student Engagement Teacher Handbook, International Center for Leadership in Education, 2008, reference of practical suggestions for student engagement. This was one of my most popular publications and an adaption of the original resource kit on student engagement.
Leading Change in High Schools International Center for Leadership in Education, 2008, resource kit for school leaders on high school reinvention to prepare students for the challenging global workplace. Much of the content was drawn from visits to highest performing schools and presenters at the Model Schools Conference. 458 pages.
Student Engagement: Creating a Culture of Academic Achievement International Center for Leadership in Education, 2007, resource kit for addressing issues of lack of student engagement in schools. Contributing authors in this publication were Martin Marrazo and Carolyn Love. 150 pages
Leadership for Rigor, Relevance and Relationships International Center for Leadership in Education, 2006, administrator resource kit for changing schools and creating a culture of rigor and relevance. This was first leadership resource kit focused on school leaders and drew from workshops with schools and case studies. 450 pages
How to Create Small Learning Communities, International Center for Leadership in Education, 2004, administrator and staff resource kit for implementing small learning communities. 331 pages.
Rigor and Relevance Handbook, International Center for Leadership in Education, 2002, teacher handbook for planning instruction and assessment. This became the core resource for teaching the Rigor/Relevance Framework. The link shown is the latest version.
Aligning Standards, Tests and Essential Skills to Improve Instruction, International Center for Leadership in Education, 2001, I was a contributing author on this staff development kit for school leaders on implementing standards. This kit explained and provided activities for working with state standards to connect to learning materials. These included each states’ standards.
Instructional Strategies: How to Teach for Rigor and Relevance International Center for Leadership in Education, 2000, staff development kit for school leaders on improving instruction. 230 pages. This was co-authored with Helen Branigan. This publication lead to several additional publications on strategies and became the most successful ICLE publications. Part of the kit included a Instructional Strategies: Teacher Handbook which became a separate publication and led to two additional books several years later, Instructional Strategies, vol. 2 and Instructional Strategies, Quad D Moments.
Planning Rigorous and Relevant Instruction: A Resource Kit, International Center for Leadership in Education, 1997, This staff development kit on planning RR instruction was the first major ICLE publication and was a model for future resource kits and hundreds of Rigor/Relevance workshops. 212 pages
Student Textbooks (out of publication)
I enjoyed contributing to several student textbooks that aligned with revised career curriculum.
Computers in Business: Information Processing, Minneapolis, MN, West Educational Publishing, 1991, (high school textbook)
Career Investigation: Opportunities, Choices and Decisions, Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1990 (high school textbook) This was reprint for Texas school market.
About Business and Computers, Minneapolis, MN West Educational Publishing, 1990, (high school textbook)
Getting Ready – Decisions, Jobs and Careers, Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1989 (high school textbook)
Dissertations
I completed my Master’s degree and Doctor of Philosophy at Cornell University. I write a thesis for the Master’s on Perceptions of Agricultural and Community Leaders as a Basis for Developing Public Relations Strategies for Agricultural Education Programs.
My completion of graduate school at Cornell was creating a dissertation. I was interested in evaluation of learning and at that time considered a career in private industry training and development. This lead to my research completion of the dissertation Evaluation of Employee Training Programs.