Does Money Matter? Turns out it depends on how you measure it. Or maybe even your politics.

The dark history that spawned our current education system has never totally escaped us.

This is a reprise of an April 14, 2017 blog. I've reprised after I saw (and responded to) the 3/6/18 "Rows of Desks" Tweet from SoD Demos

Administrator evaluation systems lack clear performance standards and rigor in design and attention to implementation.

Forward-thinking organizations often have transition or succession plans in place for their top executives.

I define the visionary archetype as someone who has the ability to foresee a compelling image of the future.

Building consensus for spending decisions across multiple stakeholder groups is among the greatest challenges education leaders face today.

Accountability is necessary…it just isn’t an effective lever for system-wide reform and sustainable change.

Scholars have long argued that school reform efforts ignore issues of power. As a practitioner I agree with that supposition.

Among the more interesting ideas my students and I are discussing in my current doctoral leadership class is policy coherence.

Superintendents alone possess the positional authority to access the power domains of all education partners.

It’s striking to me how useful research skills are for leaders, yet they remain largely undervalued in the leadership literature.

Kentucky is one of a handful of states where charter schools are absent, a quarter-century into the charter school movement.

My readers know that whenever I travel I make a point to learn about the local education system…whether I’m overseas or here in America.

This type of data is known as Big Data and it’s emerging in education too.

Bullying is an affront to the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination.

Click linkto view an article that appeared in the  September 25, 2017 edition of EDCAL, a publication of the Association of California...

At the classroom level, collecting and documenting evidence of students’ classroom performance is a fundamental component of formative...

Students doing research for the first time face many challenges.  Here are five big ideas that are important to process. Download a pdf...

If it is not, change is likely to fail. Many of my readers are aware of the lead boldly message that I regularly deliver to my education...