School Building leader: Thinking about next year’s opening faculty conference and/or the new school year’s professional development (PD) activities topics? “Scaffolding”: A term commonly used in education; but unfortunately, not so commonly practiced. This article is a good/short faculty discussion … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2017
The Strange Fruit of Entitlement
First of all, why is Serena William’s name even in John McEnroe’s mouth? Did she call him a name; or talk bad about his tennis game to some reporter? This idea that you feel so free to insult the greatest woman tennis player in history (who happens to be Black); and in the midst of her pregnancy. What lack of a sense of relevance, loss of public attention, and decency deficiency, informs your brain that the proper thing to do is to attack this great woman now? And this coming from the most immature and petulant of all professional tennis players. Clearly we have entered, and are presently wallowing in the indecent muck and mired age of Trump. Mr. McEnroe should engage in some good public service works, and hire a good publicist, who can help bring his name back into the public conversation, but in a more positive and productive way.
School District Governance: Is There a Third/Different Way?
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One Good Response Deserves Another! My response to a response about the response I posted to a NYC schools mayoral control article. First of all thank you_____________, for your thoughts. My response-delay was because I wanted to give your comments … Continue reading
If you choose to make a deal with the devil, just make sure you have on your asbestos underwear!
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“Alex Jones releases secretly taped audio of Megyn Kelly Interview”—The Hill Oh boy, this is about to get real interesting! First, school shootings-murders should never serve as financial profit making opportunities. And acts that produce the suffering of innocents, can’t … Continue reading
Somehow I always find myself marching in the opposite direction of the “parade”
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The 2017 NYC Puerto Rican Parade… This is one of those moments when I really admire the principled spirit of a Nelson Mandela; who always said (and lived); that the struggle was always bigger than himself; bigger then any one … Continue reading