Weekend’s greetings, CharterFolk. I’m coming to you on a Sunday again, a function of continued day-job intensity keeping me full of other work in Charterland, which, like work on CharterFolk, I love and feel privileged to do. And it looks like those responsibilities might stay this way indefinitely. So seeing that football season is starting
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Caprice Young, Ed.D., President, Education Growth Group. I provide Caprice’s bio below. Dr. Young is an experienced transformational executive and superintendent with proven leadership in board governance and C-level roles. Raised in a foster family, she has committed her life to improving
Good morning, CharterFolk. As some of you may be tracking this summer, California has made a big change affecting education for millions of students. Apparently, the research is unequivocal. Schools start too early. Before we had the Covid epidemic, we had another one. The teen-sleep-deprivation pandemic. One so severe, as the American Psychological Association described
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Jose Perez and Joe Nathan. A Plea to Build on Students’ Strengths and Change the World Whether it’s high school students successfully challenging their state and bringing millions to students laid off because of the pandemic, or elementary students designing and building
Good morning, CharterFolk. Thank you to so many of you who reached out to express appreciation for our CharterFolk Chat with Howard Fuller. For those of you wanting a transcript of the discussion with Howard, you can access one here. As ever, people were full of favorable responses to Howard’s comments. Several included thoughts about
Good morning, CharterFolk. I’ll get a quick post off to you today amid a rush of other work happening this week. There’s certainly a lot of news in Charterland. The breadth of the enrollment crisis in big cities is really beginning to register now. As is the breadth of the teacher shortage, with some districts
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Dean Johnson, the President of the Quality Schools Coalition. I provide Dean’s brief bio below. Prior to founding Quality Schools Coalition, Dean co-founded and served as Executive Director of Crossroads Charter Schools, a network of three schools in Kansas City serving 1,100
Good morning CharterFolk. Great to see Howard forging on as he always does. I’m delighted to share that Howard has agreed to do another CharterFolk Chat in August (following up his last one from September of 2020) giving us another chance to hear his latest musings and learn about his most recent goings-on. Next, I
Good morning, CharterFolk. I start today with an apology. Last week we encountered a challenge with our IT platform which shut down our distribution of emails literally midway through getting a post out to you. About half of you received last week’s column on time, while the other half had it show up five days
Good morning, CharterFolk. It was great to see so many of you at conference this year, and I do admit to being quite touched by those of you who went out of your way to approach me in person to thank us for our work here at CharterFolk. It’s encouraging to know that our efforts