INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY
In 1966, UNESCO proclaimed Sept. 8 as International Literacy Day, to remind people around the world of “the critical importance of literacy for creating a …
We Can’t Cut Our Way to Better Schools
The Hard Choices Districts Must Make Before Scarcity Becomes the Strategy All across the country, school districts are involved in a very important and impactful …
They Don’t Have to Follow You
Why Being Right About the Vision Isn’t Enough to Lead People There There is a humbling truth about leadership that I continue to learn: You …
Redefining Setbacks: Finding Purpose in Life’s Delays
Learning to Trust the Places in Life We Cannot Yet Explain I have spent a significant portion of my life always trying to get somewhere. …
The Weight We Agreed to Carry
Leadership Is Not About Avoiding the Hard Decisions—It Is About Being Worthy of Making Them There is a weight that comes with leadership. Not the …
The Seduction of Significance
When Leadership Stops Being About Service One of the greatest dangers in leadership is not failure. It is success. Not because success is inherently bad. …
The Cost of Silence in Education Leadership
The Conversations Every School Leader Knows We Need—But Too Few of Us Are Having Leadership is often defined by the decisions we make. The budgets …
Borrowed Time
The Leadership Position Was Never Ours to Keep One of the most humbling realizations of my career is this: None of the offices I have …
The People Who Hold Us Together
Why Every Leader Needs an Affinity Group It is well documented, anecdotally and otherwise, that leadership can be remarkably lonely. Those who have read my …
Schools Didn’t Create the Literacy Crisis. But We May Be Helping Sustain It.
What if the greatest threat facing American education isn’t declining reading scores? What if it’s that we’ve stopped expecting students to think deeply at all? …