I am attending the Missouri School Board Association’s annual conference and I am a bit overwhelmed by the volume of quality information being presented. I have been attending this conference as an exhibitor, presenter or participant since the mid 1990’s, and the last couple of years have been the most relevant that I have experienced. […]
I just had the pleasure of sitting in on the Sunday Service at August Gate church. I put a new sound system into their building this week, and wanted to be there for the first service. It was a great opportunity to see community being lived out by really wonderful, committed people with a united […]
In 2009-2010 our local school district went through an extensive process engaging 44 members of the community in building a Comprehensive School Improvement Plan(CSIP). This process, required for accreditation, can either be an investment, creating a substantive and useful tool as it was for us, or simply another bureaucratic pile of paper sitting on a shelf. What […]
Why the Excitement regarding the Early Childhood Center? I have been asked on a couple of occasions why this new facility is such a “big deal”. I can only answer this directly from my perspective and anecdotally from what others have said in meetings, discussions, and planning. Suffice it to say I feel it is one […]
I have learned to assess educators in my life by a simple but powerful criteria. Are they good for kids or not? The subtlety by which behavior is not good for kids was brought home to me by an experience I had in my professional development. I have a pretty full plate. Trying to finish […]
Social networking is now the norm for a majority of Americans. I have talked about some of the relational and social implications of this previously. Living life in the cloud is very convenient, there is a lack of intimacy that is almost numbing. People say things online they would never say in person, and this […]