In schools, observations and evaluations of teachers and principals can be a contentious event rather than a productive process. Watching someone teach or facilitate a meeting changes the event being observed. Observing something, for the most part, involves the conditions of the observed to change. For example, how a teacher interacts with students may be different if a supervisor is watching. This can be a good difference or a bad difference, but it is different. The same goes for…

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 the first time this weekend, has a big, difficult goal on its hands. As the Common Core takes hold in classrooms and national concern grows about income inequality, the test is supposed to be…

This 3 Minute Read from FastCompany Magazine heralds the philanthropy  of tech stars and celebrities who…

Teachers are known within their community.  Reputations are built child to child, parent to parent, event to event.  All of us know taxpayers who advocate for public employees to live in the districts and communities where they work. But, we also know how valuable a bit of privacy can be when grocery stores and doctor's offices and restaurants become only an extension of the office for those who see us and want to talk to us or about us. In a majority of cases, teachers are part of the…

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Few professional development offerings are designed to help leaders and teachers develop their trustworthiness and to develop their ability to trust each other. It is not something that may come across one's desk or in email. If it did, it might not be something that feels as urgent as scheduling standardized tests, analyzing data, or preparing the budget. However, trust remains one of the accelerators of change, and the foundation of healthy relationships.…

 Education reform is easy???

Aren't you thinking, how could that possibly be? Aren't we told every day in the media and professional literature that the public schools are a tragic mess and the only solution is vastly more money?

 Think about it for a second. That is a very self-serving view of the world. If schools can't be readily improved, then the people in charge of the schools can't be criticized or blamed for anything that is…