We know of no leadership training program leading to certification that focuses on courage. What is courage? How is it developed? Does it strengthen in risk taking, in failure or success? And, we guess, an essential question arises of whether or not leadership calls for courage. Or is skill and knowledge enough? A lucky candidate may come across a professor who includes an investigation of courage in her coursework or who tells stories of experiences where courage was invoked. We…

The more you study K-12, the more you will be astonished at the control that our Education Establishment has on every aspect of our society.

 Here is his weird injurious method, analyzed and explained in dozens of books, but kept perpetually in place by the interlocking powers-that-be. I've started to think the correct name is The Illiteracy Matrix.

 in any event, children are subjected to instruction that does not work. Typically the children have a lot of…

7 Must DO Things Before 8 A.M.

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PIGS DON’T LAY EGGS BUT LEADERSHIP IS INTERVENTION

Apart from intervention, the past is the future. Past performance reflects…

Why don’t teachers use Minecraft?

AI IS MAKING IT EXTREMELY EASY FOR STUDENTS TO CHEAT

Top 3 Trends Affecting U.S. Test Preparation Market Through 2021

• By Richard Chang
• 07/06/17

The top three market trends fueling the test preparation market in the…

It appears that more than in the past, current political happenings and the actions of the President find their way into our minds and our blog. As local school leaders, can you allow yourself to say what you don't mean or something that is totally untrue? Can you be flippant and forgiven? Can you surround yourself with chaos and deem yourself successful? These privileges of the POTUS do not find their way into local leadership arenas. Nor should they. But, beware, they may be finding…

LARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAY…

…For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

The hidden cost of an achievement-oriented curriculum…

When the President Trump uses the words "hell" and "cesspool", encourages scouts to boo a previous president (who was a Boy Scout), expresses disdain for his Attorney General and his defeated opponent, and relies on hyperbole as if it were truth, what is he teaching? When he asserts that he is being presidential, what does that mean? What are the Boy Scouts and other young people learning about behaviors that are acceptable from those with power and influence? These are the ones we use…

You don't need to be a mathematician to examine if algebra is important. School leaders come from a variety of the disciplines taught in classrooms. We, ourselves, are from the social studies and special education backgrounds in which we began as teachers. But it doesn't take an expert in mathematics to understand the educational value of algebra in high school. And it doesn't take an expert in policy to understand that the arguments for eliminating algebra as a required subject is an…

How much do educators know and understand about creating graduates who are career ready? What are the skills and knowledge students need for a career over the next forty years? Are our minds full of traditional careers and not thinking about the careers that today's students will be entering? The issue of career ready is one that applies to all students. College is not an end in itself ... at least for most of us. Georgetown University's Center for Education and the Workforce reports…

Higher standards and expectations are expected to facilitate the preparation for college and career.  As educators, we are familiar with what being prepared for college means. Students have to be prepared as skilled readers and writers, adept at mathematical thinking, able to function in an environment that expects them to be independently responsible for their learning, and have a level of maturity that supports the decisions they are asked to make. Students have to know how to live…