21st Century Leadership Academy

21st Century Leadership Academy

Posted by on Sep 27, 2013

Quality leadership is an essential factor for making change in education. Just ask any classroom teacher who has had a particularly good, or bad, building principal, and they will tell you stories. Stories of triumph or tragedy, depending on which of the leaders they were paired with. In Project RED’s study of nearly 1,000 schools […]

What I’m Afraid Of

What I’m Afraid Of

Posted by on Mar 22, 2013

We live a lifetime of not enough time. It moves by and through and around us so quickly. And if we let ourselves, we end up sitting along the curbside watching it, as if in a parade, marching in front as we fight the other spectators to pick up the best of the cheap candy […]

Calculating the Why

Calculating the Why

Posted by on Dec 7, 2012

This isn’t an anti-math post. It also isn’t meant to be anything more than an honest question that I’m trying to find an answer to. I’ve long considered not even writing it for fear that people will misunderstand or misconstrue the question. But, my inability to find a satisfactory answer in the discussions I have […]

Proud to Tell our Stories

Posted by on Nov 27, 2012

I get to tell stories as part of my job. Hopefully, you do, too. I think, sometimes, people forget the power of human story. Or, at least, we forget the power of telling our stories. Especially in education. There are so many incredible events happening each and every day in and around our classrooms, and […]

We need to think very, very seriously about this

We need to think very, very seriously about this

Posted by on Oct 30, 2012

This story is incredible, and admittedly, unfinished. There’s much more we need to learn that hasn’t been told yet, but what we do know c(sh)ould change things. Maybe even a whole lot of things. Recently, the OLPC organization took boxes of tablets, carefully and tightly taped up, and dropped them in two remote villages of […]