21st Century Collaborative

How ironic right? So typical of leadership today (crazed with busy) that I am writing my leadership day post a day late. Indicative for sure of why we are not moving along faster in our leading of transformational change. We are so busy and overwhelmed with the work that who has time to change? For [...]

‘SO, DID THEY HAPPEN TO MENTION…?’ – A Poem about ‘Underperforming’ Schools, about Turning Around & Turning Out- They say that the tests scores are too low, Did they mention my students are hungry? that the school is underperforming and must be Did they say many have no fathers at home. “turned around,” that all [...]

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. – William James It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique. – Phillip [...]

Laura Varlas wrote an interesting piece in ASCD “Caught in the Middle” July 2010 | Volume 52 | Number 7 Called- Looking Within: Teachers Leading Their Own Learning She had me at her opening line, “The most powerful and ample resource for change in education is teachers’ own expertise. Yet, teachers are regularly overstepped when [...]

A good friend told me that he heard another friend whining about how he wished educational bloggers would get back to blogging from the heart. It struck a cord with me. While I am anything but a Chicken Soup for the Soul kind of blogger– (more emotion than substance in posts) I do think there [...]