I thought I was being purposefully outrageous – I didn’t realize I was being a prophet. Early in my career of working with future teachers,[…]
It’s hard to go very long these days without seeing a story – locally or nationally – about parents and schools being at odds over[…]
The story goes that if you say ‘good morning’ to a class of elementary students, they will return the greeting; if you say it to[…]
Our goal is to make the meaningful measurable, not the measurable meaningful.* It happened very early in my career, but I’ll never forget the impact[…]
We’re all familiar with chains of command. Many of us deal with them all the time. We know to whom we should take a question[…]
I once ran for School Board in Branson. The good news is that I made a fairly strong showing – I finished right behind two[…]
A slightly different/edited version of this piece appeared in the Springfield News Leader on July 13, 2014. One of the hardest parts about discussing education[…]
The remark came – almost in passing – in a chamber of commerce leadership session I was chairing years ago, but it has stuck with[…]
It was a beautiful summer’s evening, with a view of the lake, and the sun dropping into it. We had joined friends for dinner, and[…]
A recent letter to the editor was complaining that students had missed six days during the school year (due to snow). The piece argued for[…]