What’s Your Purpose? By [email protected] December 13, 2015 Uncategorized 3 Comments For the teachers and school administrators out there, I encourage you to seek out a young, first-year teacher in your building and ask them the following question: “How’s your school year going so far?” After they give you the standard, “Good, everything is going […]

After reading my previous post, “The First Bite of the Elephant,” some of you may have thought to yourself, “Rob, what’s the big deal? Haven’t you been arguing for Congress to reauthorize ESEA for years? Why are you being such a Debbie Downer?” Well, let me say this for clarification. I am very happy ecstatic that […]

The final version of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has swept through Congress and was signed into law earlier today by President Obama. Since NCLB was apparently still leaving children behind and Race to the Top was pushing too many to the bottom, I guess a new name was probably in order. I suspect […]

By [email protected] December 8, 2015 Uncategorized 2 Comments I am a big fan of “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams. He has a gift for dissecting the layers of absurdity and senseless bureaucracy that insulate much of corporate America. Reading about the daily antics of Dilbert, Wally, Alice, and the pointy-haired boss does more than make us […]

By [email protected] December 5, 2015 Uncategorized 9 Comments This past Friday, Jenks Public Schools hosted its annual Legislative Luncheon at the Dr. Kirby Lehman Math and Science Center. This well-attended event is an opportunity for local parents, teachers, and school administrators to speak directly with key legislators about important education policy issues prior to the upcoming […]

The opening salvos have been fired in advance of the looming battle to establish Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) in Oklahoma next year. According to the editorial writers at The Oklahoman, this school voucher initiative is a no-brainer, open and shut, no if, ands, or buts, slam dunk idea. In fact, their preemptive shot across the bow includes this […]

By [email protected] November 9, 2015 Uncategorized 4 Comments I was recently privileged to take part in a national interview on standardized testing for this month’s edition of Principal Leadership. This magazine is a monthly publication of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). In this title article, Testing in Flux, senior editor Michael Levin-Epstein […]

Well, I’ll Be Darned! By [email protected] October 25, 2015 Uncategorized 8 Comments I’ll be darned. Somewhere in the midst of my most recent blogging frenzy, somebody lurking out there in the interwebs pushed my site over the 1,000,000 page view milestone. If it was you, thanks! That’s AWESOME! Of course, the first person I face-timed […]