Saturday, June 23, 2018

False Promise of Social Media: Confessions of a Former SM Evangelist

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In some of my past blog posts, I’ve often talked about how social media fostered conversations and connections. I now confess: I’ve been wr...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Reading the Book "The Sun Does Shine": What Educational Leaders and Educators Can Learn from a Former Death Row Inmate

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"You don't have to be locked up to occupy your mind and your days trying to rewrite a painful past or undo a terrible tragedy or m...
Friday, April 20, 2018

NC Legislator Suggests Arming Educators: Gun Worship Continues in the Tarheel State

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In February, in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas, I posted my opinion about the idea of arming educators. ( Arming Educators: A Bad, S...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

How 21st Century School Leaders Can Tell If They Are Infected with "Metric Fixation"

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"Metric fixation is the seemingly irresistible pressure to measure performance, to publicize it, and to reward it, often in the face o...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Liberal Arts & Humanities vs Science,Math and STEM: What If Educational Leaders Are On Wrong Side of History?

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What if we as education leaders are wrong about all this hype about the supremacy of math and science as being the keys to our future and th...
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....