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OR Who Should Be Running the Schoolhouse? In Chapter 6 of my book, Principal’s Passion: A Quest for Quality Public Education, I show how over the past twenty years, the focus of public education has changed dramatically.  Instead of basing instructional decisions on the developmental needs of children and the quality training and development of teachers, the…

Should Federal Education Funds Be Spent on Purchasing Guns? Eight months ago, today, on February 14, 2018, the unimaginable happened. A local high school in Parkland, Florida experienced a massacre of 17 student and teacher fatalities by a mentally unstable teenager with an AR-15. Another 17 students were injured, and over 3,000 students, staff and…

The Missing “R” in Schools: Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmetic, “Relationships” “Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley  With all the…

What Putting Teachers in Charge of Personalized Learning Can Look Like As I was searching for a topic in this past week’s educational news that caught my eye and resonated with my thinking, I came across this article from Mindshift, one of my regular sources for innovation in education. In my book, Principal’s Passion, I…