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Workforce Readiness: The Tripe Behind the Hype

As amazing as it seems, impossible to contemplate, baffling to ponder…American business leaders agree that our graduating high school students are incompetent (actually "deficient" is the word that they use).

Treating (Teaching) Children "Equally" is Unfair

You hear these statements all the time…

Teacher Leadership: Business Models or Modern Alchemy?

Modern educational "theory" (which we advise that you sip in small doses) [See our article, Plan Simply -- Build a Simple Plan: Loose the Ideology] seems to stem more from psychology or business theory than from educational knowledge.

Zen and the Art of Classroom Management

Classroom management can be balanced, insightful, mindful and effective...leading to harmony, happiness and peace of mind.

Hassle-Free Assessment: Pipe Dream or Reality?

The goal of assessment is to keep the teacher on track, to ensure that the instructional presentation is clear and effective...to ramp up, revamp, tune up, and fine tune instruction.

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: A High-Stakes-Test-Objectives-Driven Classroom

Teachers who teach a High-Stakes-Test-Objectives-Driven curriculum, driven by fearing-for-their-jobs principals and an aggressive and odious benchmark testing program; do not realize that they are gambling with their students' future.

Professional Development: Fast-Track to Empowerment or an Energy-Sapping Seat-Time Rut

By whatever name or disguise, professional development, In-service, staff development or training, this seat-time ritual is ubiquitous in school districts at the start of each and every school year.

Incentive Pay Proposal in Texas

The Dallas Morning News ran an online story on June 12, 2006 that should chill the optimism of any Texas educator.

http://tinyurl.com/ecp4z

The headlines were, "Incentive Pay Enters Classroom."

Bilingual Programs: Short Shrift as Usual for a Double-Barreled Opportunity

There is a need for quality Bilingual education in many countries including the United States.

But, the delivery of quality, useful, benefiting-our-country learning to our children gets bogged down, side-tracked, subverted and "short-shrifted" by the bureaucracy, just like most other programs.

The Stripes, Spots, and Yellow Streaks of School District Stakeholders

Project managers like to tout their skill in building buy-in among the stakeholders of a project.

Stakeholders are those people who have a stake in the project's success. These people could be anyone who touches (or is impacted by) the project in any way.