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With the passage of the Charter School Amendment in Georgia, Amendment 1 on the ballot, now is the time to plan and look ahead. While I did not support the amendment because I believe we need to invest in improving our public schools, using tax dollars to innovate the teaching and learning environment, I do…
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Educators from all over the country, many in higher education, are writing about the state of affairs in faculty evaluation in K-12 schools. The current edition of Phi Delta Kappan is devoted to teacher evaluation. While I have not all the articles in this edition, I intend to make my way through them to continue my quest…
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Read these statistics and see what you think about President Obama’s desire to provide our schools with a rich set of resources to improve STEM education in our public schools. These statistics come from the National Math and Science Initiative research. Our need to improve STEM or STEAM is critical: Only 29 percent of American…
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Michael Fullan writes about capacity building being one of the four most important drivers for leading change in an educational institution. The other three drivers are instructional strategies, collaboration, and systems thinking. Fullan writes, what is required is to build new skills, and generate deeper motivation. Fullan explains that capacity building is about encouraging and…
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Georgia voters will be trying to wade through the rhetoric and politics to cast their votes on whether to support a new process for evaluating and approving applications for charter schools. We have seen a fast and furious attempt from parties on both sides of the issue to gain the advantage. We have seen deceptive…
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