News: Organizational Development
Preparing for Excellence This Coming School Year: Summer Planning to Strategically Transform Classroom Instruction (Part I)
Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to drive school improvement during the coming new school year. Focusing on improving classroom instruction, the Blog outlines seven research...
Read Full ArticleEssential Strategies for Education Leaders During Uncertain Times: Future-Proofing Your School(s) for Today’s Sweeping Changes
This Blog addresses the significant shifts in education policy and practice in the Trump administration’s first two months, and advises education leaders to implement eight "future-proofing" strategie...
Read Full ArticleThe “Charlie Brown” Reality of Race and DEI in Education: How the Trump Administration is Creating Fear by Using “Ready-Fire-Aim” Tactics
This Blog uses fifty years of Charlie Brown lining up to kick a field goal—only to have Lucy pull the ball away—as a metaphor representing President Trump and the U.S. Department of Education’s “Ready...
Read Full ArticleStudents’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss
This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...
Read Full ArticleEducation’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation
This Blog revisits the 24 Blogs published this year, re-organizing them into four themes as part of an education-focused “Year in Review.” A brief analysis of these themes is provided relative to wher...
Read Full ArticleSchool Improvement Requires Changing Thinking, Not Just Changing Programs: The “Moneyball Thinking” Needed in Education
Using the movie “Moneyball” as a metaphor, we suggest that many districts and schools are locked into antiquated data analysis and school improvement thinking. We advocate that they use “Moneyball Thi...
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