- When the mind is braced by the weighty expectations of a prepared work, the page of whatever book we read, becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant; the sense of our author is as broad as the world. There is creative reading as well as creative writing. ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:233
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Recent Posts
- LePage-King dustup has drawn us away from important policy debate
- Thought of the Day: Reactions
- Commissioner’s Update – March 26, 2015
- Encouragement
- LePage tax cut plan, based on disproven thinking, comes at a staggering price
- Surviving Friendly Fire: 8 Tips for Dealing with Unfair Criticism
- It’s All Urgent! Six Ways to Prioritize When Everything’s a Priority
- Commissioner’s Update – January 29, 2015
- Millions in public school funds on the line if Maine loses federal education waiver
- All six of Maine’s charter schools have student waiting lists
- Expenses up more than revenue in state K-12 budget proposal
- LePage’s ridiculous corporate tax giveaway will face legislative scrutiny
- LePage proposes under-the-radar corporate tax giveaway
- Washington State Democratic Party Committee Votes to Reject Common Core
- Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption
- The Reality Tale of Two Education Systems: One for the Poor, and One for the Rest
- Report recommending EPS changes now available
- More money for K-12, but costs rising
- Exposing K-12 Schools Achilles’ Heel
- The Role of the Community in Education
- Step By Step, the Journey Towards Freedom From Grade Levels
- The Abdication of Parenthood: A Cry For Help?
- 10 Wishes for Schools in 2015
- China’s Education Gap
- Education on Wheels: What are the Real Costs of Busing Too Many Kids to School?
- LePage Administration proposes public charter school funding fix
- Commissioner’s Update – January 22, 2015
- There’s no answer sheet for questions about how LePage’s tax reform plan would affect Maine schools
- Mind Over Marshmallows
- Pennsylvania: Watching Public Education Die in Delaware County
- “Schools in Context”: The Full Text of a Major Study Comparing the U.S. to Eight Other Nations
- How and Why Money Matters in Schools (one more time – updated)
- A Néw Bill to Abolish Annual Testing
- 3 Ideas to Revolutionize School
- How To Manage Systems
- $48/barrel oil. What do you mean we shouldn’t be happy about that?
- South Portland school officials worry LePage plan could cause local budget woes
- LePage flat-funds education in proposed budget riddled with cuts
- LePage’s push for school district consolidation: Incentives not penalties
- With tax cuts, LePage owes voters fiscal responsibility
- The Law of Diminishing Intent
- 10 Awesome Interview Questions to Really Get to Know Job Candidates
- Henry Ford’s Advice
- 8 Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers
- K12 Hopes to Open Virtual School in North Carolina, Despite Record of Failure Elswhere
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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Surviving Friendly Fire: 8 Tips for Dealing with Unfair Criticism
Leading with Trust Sooner or later…sooner if you’re in a leadership position…you will get wounded by “friendly fire”— unfair criticism from a boss or colleague. Friendly fire comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes it shows up in your annual … Continue reading
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It’s All Urgent! Six Ways to Prioritize When Everything’s a Priority
“Action expresses priorities.” — Indian statesman Mahatma Gandhi. As Scottish poet Robert Burns pointed out in his poem “To a Mouse” in 1785, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ … Continue reading
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