Mission Creep Happens

Creeping is natural in nature. It also happens organizationally. Mission status checks help to assure mission and work fidelity or point to the need or a new mission. Continue reading

My Yesteryear Peers Are Gone. What Do I Do Now?

Many teachers find a kindred group of colleagues in their first year of teaching who become career-long personal and professional friends. This group helps to define a teacher’s school culture. When your peer group has retired or left the school, a teacher faces an essential career question. Continue reading

The Full Monty

The extras a teacher brings to the daily life of a child make school more than class time and create a full education for a child’s life time. Continue reading

All Politics Are “Just Down The Street”

Central truths cannot be forgotten. If all politics are local, then “Sally down-the-street” is a school board’s measure of the effects of their decisions. Continue reading

Remote Education: Conditional Not Optional

State governments made exceptions to public education regulations due to health emergency crises. Remote education was an allowable option. In the absence of a health emergency, remote education should be conditional not optional. Continue reading