On the importance of showing up

Woody Allen once said, "80% of success is showing up." I can't remember the first time I heard that, but I do remember thinking, Woody doesn't set the bar very high.

Now that I am older and wiser, I am wondering if I misjudged the old boy. Maybe he assumed that we all have good intentions and if we start acting on them by showing up, we increase the likelihood that those good intentions will become our reality.

Thus, my list of top ten reasons for Cornerstone principals and coaches to show up.

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Partners in Improving Secondary Literacy

It's official! Cornerstone has been awarded a planning grant from the Carnegie Corporation to support a design team that will spend a year exploring the terrain of literacy in middle and secondary education.

Misunderstood: A brief overview of literacy teaching and learning in the lives of adolescents
Adolescent literacy is a relatively new area of scholarly inquiry; however, the literacy learning of adolescents has been of growing concern and exploration by practitioners for much longer.

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