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My friend Dr. Lawrence Kohn, partner at Leadership Partners LLC, recently wrote an article titled “Why are They Wearing Lead Parachutes? It’s Not Their Fault.” In the article, Kohn refers to “Personal Leadership Resources,” seven traits that help school leaders provide “functional parachutes” for their teachers and staff instead of toxic “lead parachutes” that will…

ABPTL is back! Happy New Year! Before the holidays my friend Dr. Lawrence Kohn, partner at Leadership Partners, LLC, posted an article titled “Why are They Wearing Lead Parachutes? It’s Not Their Fault.” In the article, Dr. Kohn writes, … “We all know the metaphor, ‘lead parachute.’ A ‘lead parachute’ is not a practical or…

Last week The 74 online published an article focusing on 14 ideas that changed the way we looked at our schools this year. Let’s take a look at some of these ideas through the writing of The 74’s Kevin Mahnken: “Student absenteeism is out of control – You could spend a lot of time simply…

Today we recognize the release of a U.S. Department of Education report titled “A Nation At Risk” forty years ago. Last week, The 74 online published a retrospective that highlighted a recent Hoover Institution report detailing the breadth of the reform efforts the landmark report inspired. The 74 writes, “Forty years ago, the release of…

This week we continue to highlight articles from The Best of The 74, with a bit of commentary added in. When I worked in schools, I always thought we referred too many kids to special education. To put it another way, why wouldn’t all kids receive the same personalized services when it came to their…

This week we continue to highlight The Best of The 74, with a bit of commentary added. Back in October, 74 reporter Chad Aldeman wrote that, “Objectively speaking, it’s a weird time to be talking about layoffs in schools. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021 had the fewest layoffs in public education in…

It’s Friday! Here’s your News Roundup. Texas Superintendents Say Lack of School Safety Funding May Lead to Budget Cuts (The Texas Tribune) Legislative mandates. Ugh! The Texas Tribune reported this week that the Texas Legislature adjourned without approving increased funding for school safety even though that same legislature passed new safety mandates (after the tragic…

The 74 online just released their top 2023 articles. Over the next two weeks, eight of those articles will be presented here, with commentary added. In May of 2023 John Bailey, and advisor to the Walton Family Foundation, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a fellow at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, wrote an…