Friday, August 16, 2019

Why I've Turned Down All These Requests for Paid Posts

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Over the years I have received many requests for 'paid blog posts' asking me to promote this product or that particular program. I c...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Next Time Some Ed Guru Starts Spouting About Knowledge and Skills Students Need for the Future: Change the Channel!

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"The idea that education is best served by standardizing method, content, goals, and evaluation procedures leads to another consequen...
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...