News: Organizational Development

Essential Strategies for Education Leaders During Uncertain Times: Future-Proofing Your School(s) for Today’s Sweeping Changes

This Blog addresses the significant shifts in education policy and practice in the Trump administration’s first two months, and advises education leaders to implement eight "future-proofing" strategie...

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The “Charlie Brown” Reality of Race and DEI in Education: How the Trump Administration is Creating Fear by Using “Ready-Fire-Aim” Tactics

This Blog uses fifty years of Charlie Brown lining up to kick a field goal—only to have Lucy pull the ball away—as a metaphor representing President Trump and the U.S. Department of Education’s “Ready...

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Students’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss

This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...

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Education’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation

This Blog revisits the 24 Blogs published this year, re-organizing them into four themes as part of an education-focused “Year in Review.” A brief analysis of these themes is provided relative to wher...

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School Improvement Requires Changing Thinking, Not Just Changing Programs: The “Moneyball Thinking” Needed in Education

Using the movie “Moneyball” as a metaphor, we suggest that many districts and schools are locked into antiquated data analysis and school improvement thinking. We advocate that they use “Moneyball Thi...

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Delegating Duties and Decisions in a Shared Leadership School: Avoiding Staff Reservations or Resentment

This Blog discusses the significant benefits of having a Shared Leadership structure and process in every school across the country. The structure is defined by seven research-to-practice components e...

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