Change and institutionalization are constants and inevitable. If you want to be a change agent, know how change theory works and how institutions defend against change. Continue reading
Change And Institutionalization Are Inevitable
The “Community”. Who Exactly Is this?
To know what the community values and wants you must know who the community is. There are many communities in a community. Continue reading
Room For Many On The High Ground
Find and support the highest ideals for your aspirations then move over so that others can join you in elevating your school to higher ground. Continue reading
Mission Creep Happens
Creeping is natural in nature. It also happens organizationally. Mission status checks help to assure mission and work fidelity or point to the need or a new mission. Continue reading
My Yesteryear Peers Are Gone. What Do I Do Now?
Many teachers find a kindred group of colleagues in their first year of teaching who become career-long personal and professional friends. This group helps to define a teacher’s school culture. When your peer group has retired or left the school, a teacher faces an essential career question. Continue reading
The Full Monty
The extras a teacher brings to the daily life of a child make school more than class time and create a full education for a child’s life time. Continue reading
All Politics Are “Just Down The Street”
Central truths cannot be forgotten. If all politics are local, then “Sally down-the-street” is a school board’s measure of the effects of their decisions. Continue reading
Remote Education: Conditional Not Optional
State governments made exceptions to public education regulations due to health emergency crises. Remote education was an allowable option. In the absence of a health emergency, remote education should be conditional not optional. Continue reading
Aaron Burr and Zooming Into the Room Where It Happens
Pandemic government at the local level has magnified and optimized public access to “the room where it happens”. Aaron Burr would be jealous. Continue reading
Load-bearing Learning
What children learn in 4K-3 matters. Their learning must create load-bearing skills and capacities that will support additional and expanded learning in grades 4-12 and life. Give new thinking to what your teach our youngest learners. Continue reading