RattleBag and Rhubarb

Social Media and School Leadership

Lorrie Jackson recently interviewed me via email on the topic of heads of school and their use of social media.…

14 years ago

The Price

Thanks to my Twitter feed I saw this short BBC news piece about recently discover aerial photographs of the battlefields…

14 years ago

The Five-Step Solution

So here - as promised - the Ned Hallowell five-step solution for happiness and all that ails us including schools…

14 years ago

The Spreadsheet Solution

The NYSAIS heads conference is always valuable and 2010 was no exception. I usually hear NAIS president Pat Bassett in…

14 years ago

High School Climate Report: More grim than glee

Bullying, violence, discrimination and the ethical climate of high school. Charles Blow wrote about what he termed the Private School…

14 years ago

Childhood Is Another Country: Children Are Not Miniature Adults

Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…

14 years ago

Connect Joy to Learning

I  rewrote Seth Godin's blog entry for today: Organizing for joy. I hope he doesn't mind. The word "joy" made…

14 years ago

Break out of the Box

Prior to the industrialization of education, the education model was centered around a single-room school house consisting of one teacher…

14 years ago

We asked…they told: 100% feel safe in school

100% of PDS high school students agreed with all of these statements on the HSSSE : I  feel safe in…

14 years ago

HSSSE 2: “The shape of these bubbles is oppressive.”

This is the second post reporting on the results of the survey we administered at PDS  last spring: The High…

14 years ago