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With more than three decades of experience inspiring educators around the world to create learning environments worthy of each child’s potential, Gary Stager is poised …
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A Not-So-Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future (2004)
A Not-So-Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future © 2004 Gary S. Stager Published by the NECC Daily Leader conference newspaper on June …
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Laptop Schools Lead the Way in Professional Development (1995)
In Australia… Laptop Schools Lead the Way in Professional Development As published in Educational Leadership – October 1995 By Gary S.Stager Gary S. Stager is a teacher educator …
There is No Such Thing as Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership and boondoggles like “Digital Learning Day” are just meaningless word salad. If you were to define it, I’d likely weep at the reality …
Leadership is Clarity, Consistency, and Coherence
In the absence of a clear and publicly articulated vision for a school or district and a misguided quest for the holy grail of balance, the …
Leadership is About Subtraction
Any good school leader knows that they can’t keep piling new mandates on teachers and kids. Yet, few school leaders and policy makers seemingly refuse …
You Don’t Get to Call Yourself a School Reformer
It seems to me that “school reformer” is not a title one gets to bestow upon herself. Like genius and artist, “reformer,” is a title …
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The Case for Computing (2003)
The Case for Computing By Gary S. Stager A chapter from the book, Snapshots! Educational Insights from the Thornburg Center Stager, G. (2003). The Case for …
Playground Poem
As far too many American schools become obsessed with time-on-task, achievement, and beating the rest of the world in long division, play, recess, and even …
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Gary Stager’s Full ASCD Interview About Making
Following my presentation at the March ASCD National Conference, Sarah McKibben of ASCD interviewed me for an article, If You Build It: Tinkering with the Maker …