Tell me: Are you a glass half full or glass half empty kind of guy or gal? I think we can all agree that what the world needs now is a lot more glass-half-full perspectives.

It’s crazy: One of the top and most important positions in any school system is that of the treasurer/CFO, yet this person is typically the most unseen and perhaps, even, underappreciated. In reading the tea leaves for 2022, the role is only gaining in importance and is increasingly on the radar...

Spring break marks the final stretch for schools and the fourth quarter is upon us. There’s no time for a seventh inning stretch now. Because before you take that well deserved sigh of relief, here are nine tasks you should try and do in the last nine weeks of school to end the year on a positive...

It’s said that tough times reveal our truest selves. How can anyone disagree with that? In education, the past two years have revealed our public educators as innovators and creators. 

Leadership. Is what we learned about it dated when navigating work and life in the 2020s? And how do we mentor leadership in others, especially when they are finding themselves in the forefront of a public crisis. This includes principals, teachers and school board members – all those who are now...

Advice on whether company executives should have their own social media presence seems to waver. But after the last two years of polarization on COVID-19 topics and contentious board races, it’s more important than ever for school superintendents to establish and foster their brand in this space. 

The Great Resignation. The Big Leave. The Great Upgrade.

Help is here! Valuable Lessons that Will Make 2022 Great

Over the holiday break, my Twitter feed blew up with superintendents everywhere tweeting out the latest Newsweek article about the “Great Exodus” of superintendents from public education. Why? Because they know it and they feel it: To their very core. 

When it first came out — and for a time following its debut — social media was fun. Given how negative it has become, though, it can be hard to remember those days.

Imagine it, some Monday morning you hit your Facebook app on your phone and ... nothing. What? Nothing? How can that be? Well, it happened - Facebook and Instagram went down. For SIX hours! 

When someone wants to talk about the financials, it is all too easy to use a spreadsheet as the starting off point. Said another way: A bonafide snoozefest.