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I stumbled across an interesting service called Vetter this week.  In its simplest form, Vetter is a digital suggestion box designed to get ideas from employees. 

What makes Vetter unique, however, is that it also allows you to create groups of employees who can read and rate the suggestions that are being submitted by their peers on a scale of one to five. 

Essentially, this collective review and rating process allows leaders to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds.  Ideas that are reviewed by a diverse cross...

Recently the Seattle Times published an article and an editorial piece about a local school whose new principal was now enforcing the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance as required under state law. A series of letters to the editor (here, here and here...

They say hindsight is 20/20…a cliché phrase that makes a person feel better about themselves once he or she has completed an often monumental task with many missteps along the way.  Such is the case with teacher preparation programs. Often, the clarity one receives is a phenomenal paradox: the instant a person completes the task, such as graduating from a teacher preparation program, he or she then becomes an expert in respective field (in our case, teaching), while simultaneously becoming a cutthroat critic of the path of which was just traveled.  Offering endless advice to change the journey that he or she believes would be a far superior path than the down-trodden route that resulted in this new-found knowledge.

Now this is where the...

By Ali Kliegman

Ali Kliegman, a policy associate at CTQ, has been working with teacher leaders on a new website called Teacher Leader Model Standards. The site, which launched last week, is a collaborative resource for teacher leaders to share and learn about teacher leadership in the 21st century.

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