Good day, CharterFolk. I swear. Sometimes I struggle to make sense of things. Have you seen this one? A wealthy woman in San Francisco who is trying to get rid of public pickleball courts in her area … … owns a mansion on the market for $36 million that … … literally … … has
Weekend greetings, CharterFolk, We’ve had a lot of outreach this week in response to our Community Update from Tuesday. I appreciate so much your encouragement and warm wishes. CharterFolk does seem to be on a pretty great trajectory these days, but we wouldn’t be making anywhere near the progress that we are, were it not
Good day, CharterFolk. I hope your week is off to a great start. On Friday the CharterFolk Board of Directors met. I’d like to make this post a Community Update letting the readership know about important developments happening here at CharterFolk. News includes the following: Let’s take them in order. 11 New Board Members Join
Good day, CharterFolk. I’ll get on to the final “401-Level” of Free, Public, Open to All in my next post. In the meantime, there are some “signs of the times” articles in the edusphere I’d like to highlight. Let’s get to them now. Signs of the Even More Greatly Disconnected Times Long-time readers will remember
Good day CharterFolk. I start off acknowledging some incongruities here. I said I’d get a post off to you about how our 201, 301 and 401-Levels of work related to Free, Public and Open to All can all be integrated. But my regular work has really spiked, cutting majorly into my time. And this post
Good day, CharterFolk. We are excited to announce that tomorrow you will be seeing a new feature here at CharterFolk, a quarterly post we will be calling “CharterFolk on the Move” which will be compiled by Mollie Mitchell. Old time ed reformers will remember that Mollie, a highly respected executive recruiter who founded The K12 Search
Good day, CharterFolk. Open rates here at CharterFolk stay in the 45% to 50% range, which in comparison to industry benchmarks remain encouragingly high. I thank you all for your continued support. And we keep seeing new growth in readership coming to CharterFolk. New organizations are signing up for organizational subscriptions. We’re also having several
Good day, CharterFolk. I start off today sharing my sense that we may be turning a corner. Turning away from a time when many of us in charterland wanted to downplay our charterness in order to accentuate our publicness, toward a time when we realize that we have to embrace both our charterness and our
Good day, CharterFolk. I’m working on a couple longer “eat your vegetables” pieces on advocacy matters which I’ll post over the next week. Meanwhile, let me get this shorter one out to you today about some recent articles in ed world which provide a backdrop for our work. By now you guys know I have
Good day, CharterFolk. Let’s get straight to today’s post. Remembering Rick Piercy I start today sharing the sad news that we’ve lost a great one this week. I wrote about Rick and the Lewis Center a couple years back. Rick was the crazy kindergarten teacher who dreamed of teaching science more creatively. So he built