It is worth a thought. Is it time to shrink Central Office staffs? I think so. I think many need to go right back into the classroom where they can carry out the very policies which they are implementing. There are some serious questions posed by Mcmul Claud in this […]
Category: Organizational Structure
Should central office employees be required to return to the classroom during each school year?
I think people across this country are sick and tired of dealing with central office employees who dictate practices to their kids’ schools and then have zero accountability when their policies fail! They just disappear when scores flop as a result of their interventions. And let’s be real, most of […]
If you are gonna talk the talk…
You better walk the walk. In other words, if I walk down the street looking for a candy store, see a candy store sign, and go inside…and find a hardware store. That is a false advertising. The store just wants to lure you in with a false store front. Every, […]
Parents: What do you do when faced w/ aggressive assessment calendars by public schools?
I think that is a question many of us are asking in Kingsport lately. What do you do when your local school system exchanges developmentally appropriate, experiential instruction for canned instruction which is almost entirely founded in test prep and critical thinking is jettisoned? What do you do when you […]
People don’t leave jobs, they leave bosses.
The title of the video below is “Rock Bottom.” It is apt title and well worth your viewing time, Educator customer service needs to be at the top of the list of things we need be addressing this BOE election cycle. Our best principals understand and work at this every, […]
What can we learn about learning from Steve Jobs?
If today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?…Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool that I have ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything…all external expectations, […]
What Makes a Great School?
I have been a student, a teacher, and the parent of a student. My family has earned degrees which range from business to education to medicine to engineering. We value great education. Here are some things we look for when selecting great schools: As a youngster, I had the privilege […]
A Devotion: I Corinthians 13
This verse has been on my mind recently. I was once asked to write my Philosophy of Education. It was embarrassingly slick w/ lots of buzz words from that era. But if I had to rewrite it, I would simply reference I Corinthians 13 – all of it. No matter […]
Kingsport Needs a XC Course
We need a cross country course in Kingsport. All of our other sports have stand alone places to train and play. XC needs its own. Our middle schools and high school runners have a tough time finding enough grass to run on. They are left having to run city and […]
The Feuerstein Method and the Power of Teaching Thinking
If there is a common theme in this blog, it is innovation. Part of the goal of this blog is to go past what we are currently doing in education, and explore what comes next. How are we going to teach? How are we going to enable students to learn […]