I am very protective of my little brother. I have autism and he does too, along with ADHD. He's  a lot younger--I  am a sophomore in high school and he's entering the second grade. He's  getting to the age where I started to really have problems in school and that makes me even more protective.

I've written about it before, but at his age, I really struggled with…

3 PREVAILING BELIEFS THAT LIMIT LEADERSHIP

What you believe about yourself, others, and…

AN AMAZINGLY PRACTICAL APPROACH TO PRACTICING A GROWTH MINDSET

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• The Shocking Ways Poor Kids Have Long Been Singled Out in American Schools…

I began riding a motorcycle over two years ago. I never had any intention of becoming a biker. I was happy and busy and certainly didn’t need a new hobby. I was 51 when I started. Such a cliché. Mid-life crisis, right? Not really, but it’s hard to overcome appearances. I blame my friends. They started riding a few months before me, got their licenses, and took to riding like ducks to the water. Every time we got together they would ask me when I was going to join them. I scoffed at them,…

 Article discusses the phenomenon of students buying term papers on the Internet. Why do they need to do this? Simple. K-12 does a terrible job of teaching the basics: reading, writing, grammar, spelling.

 It really does appear, judging by quotes in this article, that students who can write a grammatical paragraph are the exception.

 Meanwhile, the…

When physicians decided to go from performing surgery on cancerous tumors to adding pumping chemicals into patients' bodies and then exposing them to targeted radiation was there a clamor by the public to call this "a bit adorable"?  Actually it has continued as the protocol for many, even though to a non-medically trained ear, it sounds "a bit frightening. "Think about changes in the medical world. No one outside of the profession would feel they had a voice in a progressive move…

Schools continually examine where they are in relationship to where they want to be. In that process, they have to determine their effectiveness, the practices to hold dear and those to release. That is different from what has happened over these past few decades.  As change has occurred, in order to learn and change and adapt, some things have been abandoned that should be brought back but with a new spin, adapting to today's environment. …

Educational leaders are public servants. There is little room in public budgets (or in public acceptance) for the care of those who are paid with public funds. Yet, the life price to be paid for being the CEO and the school leader can be similar. Tremendous responsibility, little tolerance for error and stress is part of the work. Read…