High Schools as Daycare

High Schools as Daycare

THE UNINTENDED MISSION US VOTERS GAVE OUR SCHOOLS.  There are fifty million students in the USA. Surveys by Gallup discovered that 55% of high school students are “psychologically disengaged from school work.” Please read that sentence twice. That’s...
Good Schools = Prosperity

Good Schools = Prosperity

Once you have read this post please forward it to your state governor’s office. Improving school performance is one of the best investments a governor can make to improve the economic well-being of their state. If all fifty states had improved their student outcomes...
Creative Destruction

Creative Destruction

MANAGING CHANGE: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AS THE ENGINE OF CONTINUOUS INNOVATION. If we want our schools to improve they must be organized for constant change. “For a hospital—or a school or any other community organization—to discharge its social function we must be able...
Cognitive Writing

Cognitive Writing

COGNITIVE WRITING. There are two components to writing; no matter whether it is a report, essay, letter, memorandum or something more ambitious such as a proposal, thesis, a plan or even a book – Message and Style. The message is by far the more important of the...
Why Do Teachers Matter?

Why Do Teachers Matter?

If you are a Teacher, or a beneficiary of Teaching, you intuitively know its importance and value. But have you ever systematically analyzed Teaching’s strategic purpose; its top-most goal? You might well ask why should I understand the top-most goal – the strategic –...