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The Art of Balancing Execution & Innovation
Every school needs an execution agenda to improve the quality of instruction around an adopted curriculum. Every school needs an innovation agenda. Finding the right balance is the art of leadership and the product of dialog.
Good Work: Trustees For A Slice of America
My home town hides its poverty all too well. But a group of committed leader take ownership, and act like trustees.
Alan Blankstein Addresses 200 Public Education Thought Leaders
Author Alan Blankstein addressed more than 200 public education thought leaders in New York at the annual Leadership Conference of the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) and the Public Education Association (PEA) today about high-debate issues surrounding public, private and charter schools.
Good Work: Confidence on a Mission
Leadership is immensely difficult on the practical level, but simple emotionally—you must care, and care so deeply that you are not willing to accept present conditions.
The Flexibility to Better Serve Students
12 more schools join Denver's autonomy zone called Innovation Schools
Good Work: What You Leave Behind
We each have the chance to leave something very special behind. Perhaps best of all is reliable hope; it is hard to build, difficult to maintain, easy to destroy, but the most valuable gift that can be given.
More urban school districts adopt portfolio reform strategy
Building a portfolio of options--new and improved schools--is the only viable strategy for vital urban education. It's a great strategy for leveraging community resources and targeting specific needs/geographies.
Good Work: Conferences
This week I’m skipping ISTE and going to Hawaii to read, write and think with a few less of those ‘prefigurations’ that worried Thomas Moore.
Good Work: Love and Hope
Reforms of the late 90s seem quaint compared to challenges that school districts face today. The fiscal crisis adds a whole new layer of challenge to American education leadership.
A New Normal Summit
The New Schools Venture Fund Summit took place this week in San Francisco and had more tech, more digital learning, more focus on productivity and more people. Yet, there are still a few things that I would like to see before the next summit.