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Leadership
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.
EdTech
Solutions to Charter Bottlenecks
The number of charter schools continues to expand nationally by about 500 school per year, but growth rates have been dampened by school district push back and the fiscal crisis.
EdTech
The Flexibility to Better Serve Students
12 more schools join Denver's autonomy zone called Innovation Schools
Personalized Learning
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.
EdTech
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.
Personalized Learning
A Letter to Principals About Levers
Principals have seven historical improvement levers: culture, goals, instruction, materials, hiring, parents, and partners. Blended learning is an emerging lever that creates new degrees of freedom
Personalized Learning
Charter Schools Model the Future
Charter schools are useful models of performance contracting, nonprofit school governance, and soon many will feature well designed blended learning programs.
Personalized Learning
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.
Leadership
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.
Personalized Learning
Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) May Be the Most Important Advocacy Group in America
Education is the issue that will most determine this country's role in the world and DFER is assisting state by state that will determine the quality of education in America.