Sunday, May 26, 2019

Indistar: Taking the Creativity Out of School Improvement Through Standardization and Imposed Conformity

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"The problem with conformity in education is that people are not standardized to begin with." Sir Ken Robinson, Creative Schools...
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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Shouldn't Real Leaders Invite Criticism of Their Ideas for Improvement Rather Than Jump to Buy-In?

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John Ralston Saul’s book, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West , captures so well a “postmodern-postructural” idea ...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Pro-Innovation Bias in Education: Any Old Innovation Will Do and Adventures in Educational Fadsurfing

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As wave after wave of educational reform has hit our educational shores, one thing becomes very clear: the field of educational leadership ...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Why Educators Need to Recognize Social Media's Structural Flaws and Algorithmic Radicalization Potential

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Social media has become a problem. I was once an avid user of it, and now, after all the political events of the past two to three years, i...
Friday, April 19, 2019

For Ed Leader Success, Perhaps Our Answers Aren't Found in John Maxwell or Jim Collins

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In reading Fenwick English and Lisa Ehrich's book Leading Beautifully: Educational Leadership as Connoiseurship,  I was reminded of a c...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Achieving High Performance by Recipe-Following: Truth or Fairy Tale?

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Educators, and I would add business leaders love fads and leadership gurus. While I don’t know personally the data regarding how much mone...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Twitter (And Other Social Media): Our Ego-Inflation and Self-Promotion Device

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Have you really thought about the nature of social media? Most of us use it. I've even praised it, but lately I have begun to really exa...