It is... our money and our risk, not theirs.
Denis Bakke, President, to Imagine Schools developers, directors and principals (Sep. 4, 2008)
We cannot condone theft, but we can sympathize with the laid-off father who intends to steal groceries, motivated by the need to feed his hungry children. Denis Bakke hardly [...]
Research has consistently shown that the quality of school leadership has a significant impact on student learning and teacher retention. Yet all too often principals enter the profession without having developed the instructional leadership skills necessary for success.
In an effort to change this situation, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and [...]
The best thing about Education Secretary Duncan’s interview with Education Week was his endorsement of a fundamental value of public education - "creative insubordination." When dealing with some of his best principals in Chicago, Duncan learned that the best thing he could do was to [...]
For the past few years, state representatives John Legg and Will Weatherford have spent one afternoon sharing their thoughts about education policy with Pasco County principals, and asking for opinions to bring back to Tallahassee.
This year, the two lawmakers -- each of whom chairs a key [...]
BROOKSVILLE — Central High School will soon have its next principal – and so will three other Hernando schools.
Joe Clifford, currently principal at J.D Floyd K-8 in Spring Hill, will take the empty seat at Central left by Dennis McGeehan, interim superintendent Sonya Jackson announced in an e-mail to district [...]
Those inside the school reform bubble are pretty much solely focused on things like Race to the Top, mayoral control, and the like. But everybody else out there -- teachers, principals, parents -- is probably focusing on more mundane (immediate) issues like H1N1 and the gang rape of a teenage girl in Richmond, [...]
