Principles of Principals

Lies.  That's a heavy word.  But I mean to get your attention - after reading, I invite you to decide if they're lies or if you've just been mislead ...by the billions of tax-payer dollars. I recall reform-based 2 hour meetings and 300+ hours of Learning Observation Instruments (LOI's).  Never you mind the looks of terror on my colleagues' faces when they forgot to enter them; neigh dear reader...the looks of horror on my staffs' faces when they came in for the post-observation final score.  They wanted to know one thing, "How did I do?". I had just wrapped up my 9 yr. old daughter's parent-teacher conference.  15 minutes of "here's how she's doing" followed by "thanks, see you soon."  In my son's words, lame sauce compared to what they could be. Anyhow, I ventured home, and massaged a sweet headache. I kept thinking about what they said about the red folder.  The red folder.  Not about concepts or proj...

On Evolving Leadership Styles in Education, Then and Now In 1936, Kurt Lewin published Principles of Topological Psychology .   In this seminal work, he posited the heuristic equation B = f(P, E) where B is denoted as a person’s behavior as a function of P, or a person ’s E, meaning environment .   The pioneering formula gave rise to the notion that an individual’s present situation was gravely important when considering their behaviors, more so than one’s past.   When Dr. Lewin and his colleagues wrote on patterns of aggressive behavior and used elementary-aged student groups for analysis, it may be beneficial to consider the present circumstances of those children’s lives and the lives of the authors and how it informed their behaviors during the experimentation, documentation and publication of the results.   This will advise both the revolutionary notions they put forward, and the between-war industrialization of the world’s major powers.   I...