ONE RAINY CHRISTMAS DAY WE MAY DISCOVER OUR GIFT

It is a rainy Christmas Day in San Diego and I am not thinking about gifts as much as I am thinking about how children are gifted…
And how we have tried so hard for so long to defy NCLB’s gravitational pull toward the homogenization of our curriculum by stubbornly celebrating the multiple intelligences…
And how we [...]

7 HEISMANS AND THAT PICTURE FROM UCLA

 
 
It’s not a great picture.  At least artistically speaking. There are eight of our students and only Brandon even looked at the camera.  The lighting, such as it is, is purely accidental. If you didn’t know the subject you would click past it and move on. 
But we can’t.  We know the subject.  And we know how they [...]

WHO LETS THE BULLIES WIN?

On Thursday we made the disturbing discovery that some of our 6th graders are engaging in the most heinous kinds of bullying, hazing, intimidation and battery.  Some of it is of a sexual nature.  And they have taken it to extreme lengths.
Counselors, teachers, administrators, and local police met with our students and parents this past week and we assured [...]

ONE QUESTION I’VE NEITHER RESOLVED NOR RECONCILED

  Why twitter?
 
 ”kriley19…is standing in Vons reading the ingredients of chorizo…”

 
  I rest my case.
 
 
 

A LEATHER BLANKET ROUGHLY CUT IN THE SHAPE OF AFRICA

I am approaching the six-month anniversary of my very first blog. For those of you who were the early pioneers of this vigorous enterprise… let me first salute you, then ask your patience while I share three personal discoveries that are having a significant impact on how I think about leadership and my [...]