When perception is reality, bad news about your school is terrible news, no news is bad news, and good news is the only news with a future. If your local school is not generating and publishing good news about its … Continue reading
In the Business of School, No News Is Bad News
The Ugly American Transcendent
When I read The Ugly American more than 50 years ago, an archetypal 3-D image affixed in my thinking, one that has emerged as a lens through which to observe phenomenal persons over the past half century. Yesterday, a populist … Continue reading
Human Talent Is The Key to Tech Advancement
You may read this article as a presentation of an employment concept or as an endorsement of a person; either way, you are right. Which is more valuable when you are short on each – human talent or tangible, highly … Continue reading
The Attack on Teacher Prep – A Last Bastian At Risk
The idea that teachers in public schools need not be professionally prepared by licensed teacher preparation programs is circulating in my state. So that I am clear on the issue, I believe that this idea is an unadulterated wrong. The … Continue reading
Ernie in the Back Row – The Reality of Educational Reform
“Hey, Ernie! Yes, you in the back row of the faculty meeting where you have been sitting it seems like forever. Do you remember telling us ‘I’ve seen educational changes come and go. All I have to do is sit … Continue reading
Building New Faculties
If a faculty of teachers is the heart of any school, then high quality instruction by caring teachers is the end game of faculty-building. Faculty building is the recruitment, hiring, sustenance and bonding of an array of expert teachers into … Continue reading
The Necessity of Sifting
I bake, so I sift. I live, so I sift. So, I borrow the saying, “sift happens.” And, to create better and more delicate bakery and to develop better and more impactful life decisions, the more one must sift. Bakers … Continue reading
Teaching Is Causing Learning; Get Rid Of Other Agendas
Tis a time for simplicity. Amongst the piles of edu-data, reform proposals, governmental mandates, and clutchings for new ways to improve student learning outcomes, one simple explanation remains. Learning is a transaction between the learner and what is to be … Continue reading
Be a Who Shouting “No Guns In School”
It is time for the Whos to bellow loudly. You remember the Whos of Dr. Seuss Horton Hears A Who fame. Really, if you cannot find your loudest voice on this issue, then you should be on a mote of … Continue reading
Rosin’s “Suicide High” Is A Must Read
Read this. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/ Articles about child suicide usually put me off. It’s not just the tragedy of a life lost, but the emotional pit into which everyone – parents and family, friends, teachers and coaches – swirls in trying to find … Continue reading