Pandemic education made Internet connectivity an essential for children learning at home and remotely, teachers teaching from home, and all parents working from home. High speed Internet for every community and every home should be a priority in a new federal plan for the national infrastructure. Continue reading
Leave No Child Unconnected
Olly Olly Oxen Free
This spring a school needs to conduct a full battery of curricula assessments for each child enrolled. Teachers, parents, and children need to know the status of child learning to plan appropriately for the 21-22 school year. Continue reading
School Board Work Is A Wonderful Responsibility
School boardsmanship requires members to act with integrity and respect, be informed about and by their schools, represent children and their education, and be legislators not executives. It is a wonderful responsibility. Continue reading
What We Learned – The School We Miss Did Many Things Very Well
Every national crisis includes a discussion of public education. In some way, schooling always is involved. As we evolve through the pandemic, our discussion points to attributes of public education we miss because we value them even more in their absence. Continue reading
Remote Education Is An Emergency Response Not A New Parent Choice Option
Remote education for non-home school children is an emergency strategy that is unsustainable over time without significant restructuring of teaching assignments and regulatory support. Continue reading
Focusing On Crisis Has Obscured Big Picture Perspectives
Health crisis forced us to close campuses. Educational crisis is forcing us to open campuses. A 360 degree vision will unfold the whys and whats of our work. Continue reading
Ethosing Through The Pandemic
It is easy to lose sight of core values in a crisis and its conflicting demands. Schools that connected pandemic decisions to their school ethos have an anchor that will keep them on track. Continue reading
When Not If I Have Your Back
Dealing with protest could/should be Admin 101 today. Accountability to others begins with integrity within. It is easy and proper to support us when we act with integrity. Continue reading
Stop Teaching and Breathe
The technology of remote education allows schools to teach children without interruption. Because we have new capacity for constant and continuous education, should students be in constant and continuous learning mode? No. Continue reading
A Principal Teacher
The historic concept of principal teacher has contemporary play in schools today. A pandemic principal’s role as teacher is only accentuated in a crisis. Continue reading