Sunday, March 25, 2018

Educational Leadership, Business Management and Becoming Witch Doctors

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Wooldridge (2011) describes four charges against the discipline of management that also have some truth to them when thinking about the dis...

What Do Education Leaders Really Learn from Business Leadership and Management Gurus?

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"...Management theory is an immature discipline, unusually open to charlatans, or semi-charlatans, and congenitally prone to fads....
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Arming Educators: A Bad, Smelly Idea That Won't Go Away

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NOTE: I originally published this post when the calls to arm educators began after Sandy Hook. It seems with every school shooting, the knee...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Expanding Education Leadership Innovation and Imagination by Valuing Art and Literature

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I am going say something direct to those think the arts, literature, and even philosophy are frivolous and "impractical" for 21st...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Why Earn a Doctoral Degree When NC Legislature Does Away with Doctoral Pay?

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I’ve asked myself the question about why would I get a doctoral degree as an educator when our NC Legislature voted last summer to end pay ...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Building a Better Teacher Through VAMs? Not So Fast According to Mark Paige's Book

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As a part of my research explorations, I stumbled across a relatively new book published in 2016 about the problems with using value-added m...

Using VAMs to Determine Teacher Effectiveness: Turning Schools into Test Result Production Factories

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"But VAMs have fatal shortcomings. The chief complaint: they are statistically flawed. VAMs are unreliable, producing a wide range of ...