Tag: schools

I’m back, hoping everyone had a restful and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. And now on to Christmas! I see a lot of vacant buildings that would make outstanding learning centers, places for young learners to meet with their learning coaches to create and act on personalized learning plans that improve reading, writing, problem-solving, and character development…

It’s estimated learning loss over the past five years (after the 2020 pandemic) will cost the American economy over $90 trillion dollars in future growth. The 74 recently posted an article (11/10/25) that highlights research from Stanford University researchers that shows America having an average of 6% higher gross domestic product every year for the…

There’s so much negativity around artificial intelligence and its impact on the world. I found some evidence last week that AI might not be all bad. EducationWeek published an article titled “How Chatbots Can Help Train Teachers.” (10/20/25) In the article it opens with a story of a Albuquerque, New Mexico education technology resource teacher…

A big reason the United States Department of Education was opened in the 1980’s was to insure that public education students received the proper civil rights while attending school. Many states, mainly in the South, had a dismal record of protecting students’ civil rights prior to the federal government becoming involved through our Department of…

I went to a Minnesota Orchestra concert this past weekend. The next day I attended a master class on conducting by the Minnesota Orchestra music director Thomas Sondergard. Sondergard was born and raised in Denmark, is a trained percussionist, and directs the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. As I was watching Sondergard’s master class, I noticed…

When we ran our personalized learning lab school over 10 years ago now, we didn’t separate our special education learners into a separate group like most traditional schools do. Since every young learner possessed their own learning plan, including special learning accommodations specific to each learner, the difference between special education kids and the rest…

Awhile back, I shared that I attended a meeting where the two guests were community organizers in Chicago, Illinois. Specifically, those two were focused on rehabilitating broken neighborhood schools, specifically Dyett High School, a campus located in the Bronzeville section of the Windy City. Their remedy to revitalize one of the worst high schools in…

I remember reading research on New York City’s most successful small schools many years ago. What the study found was that those schools had one thing in common – they all had a compelling theme that served as a magnet making young learners want to attend. Ideas for new learning organizations come to me almost…

“One of the things that I do appreciate about it is, for the most part, nearly every adolescent in America right now has access to some kind of digital wireless device connected to the internet. And in some ways, if we think expansively about what it means, we are probably one of the most literate…