This week, millions of student’s will head back to school. While our education system is under tremendous fire, it is the time of year for all of us to remember the saying ‘if you can read this [blog], thank a teacher’. For ten months of the year, our children spend almost 60% of their waking […]
I recently did an inventory of the computers that I have owned over the past thirty years and it was an enlightening experience. If you haven’t done this, it is worth taking 15 minutes to go through it and think about how the technology has impacted your life. For me, it started in high school. […]
This past week I was honored to be able to speak at the Council of Chief State School Officers’ (CCSSO) ‘Future of Learning’ meeting in New York. In attendance were a number of State Deputies and thought-leaders from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) and not-for-profit educational organizations. I found it invigorating spending time with this group of […]
Get ‘em Ready… Over the past 20+ years I have been fortunate to have been able to work across both the K-12 and Higher Education sectors as an educator, administrator, and service provider. The one thing that is common among public schools, charter schools, for profit schools (HE & K-12), private colleges and public colleges […]
… and the 15 ¢ Newspaper It was 1978. I had used part of the payout from my weekly newspaper route to purchase Meat Loaf’s hot new album ‘Bat out of Hell’ (vinyl that is). Every day after school I would hop on my purple Puch moped, stuff my papers in my blue newspaper satchel […]
Peter Drucker is one of my favorite thought leaders. I have read much of his work but the one thing that I keep coming back to is a paper he wrote that was published in the Harvard Business Review in 1999 entitled ‘Managing Oneself’. When I first read the article I thought ‘this is intriguing’. […]
I remember my first day in the classroom. It was a sunny, hot, late-August day. Students filed in, racing for the newest of the 8086 machines in the room. This was before there were networks – these babies were smoking hot monochrome’s (green screen and orange screen) with 5 1/4″ floppy’s – some with dual […]
When I was a little kid I loved Johnny Cash. Recently a latent synapse fired and I started thinking about the song ‘One Piece at a Time’. This was the story of a man who had a job in a GM plant building Cadillac’s. He decided that the best way to have a Cadillac was to take a […]