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Month: February 2015
Don’t Give a Pass to Failed Grading Systems
Considering the importance and consequences attached to student grades, you’d think that we would have a common professional understanding about what grades mean and how they work....
EdWeek: Districts rely on teacher leadership
We want to help lead, not be handed someone else's to-do list. ...
Business and Education Management Principles Intersect
There are business leaders and researchers who talk about building organizational culture around shared vision and values, around learning and personal growth. If we could get more of this type of bus...
Petrilli: Everyone should get out of everyone else’s business
I just wrote a long post for my EdWeek blog about National School Choice Week. There were a few tangential items I wanted to address that didn’t fit into that post. I already posted a short piec...
Teacher Driven Change on Display at Innovation Expo
I was blown away by the presenters who described how their union-based grants spurred partnerships among teachers, administrators, parents, businesses, community organizations and universities....
In Search of Meg Whitman and Charter School Transparency
Meg Whitman brings great organizational management experience to the Summit Public Schools Board of Directors - or at least, I assume she would, but I couldn't find any meeting minutes showing she att...
Charter Schools and Segregation
The concept of choice is hard to argue with - everyone likes choice, and it shouldn't only be reserved for the wealthy; the execution of that idea in policy is a challenging proposition fraught with r...