March 2014 – FiscalShare

Month: March 2014

The Mystery of the Black Box

The black box is usually associated with tragedy. However, this post is not about airplane accidents. It is about wasted opportunities and undefined steps. There is a cartoon that shows a blackboard full of calculations. The calculations on the left hand side are, presumably, Step One and those on the right hand side must be Step Three. Between

March 19, 2014 Short URLblack box, business, Management, mission, planning, strategyHuman Resources, Procedures and Practices, Uncategorized, Working Together

The Case Against Books

Textbooks, that is. I’d like to make the case that textbooks and memorization of content are at the heart of much of what is wrong with primary and secondary education in the US. I came to the United States at the age of 21. Of course my elementary and secondary schooling is now decades old and things have surely

March 4, 2014 Short URLbest practice, California school districts, education, government spending, primary and secondary education, public schools, school, school finance, schooling, student success, textbooksPublic Schools, Uncategorized

Parental Involvement: Cause or Correlation?

I was in a meeting about student success. We had broken into groups, and the question of parental involvement came up. “Were your parents involved in your school?” I half-whispered to a fellow director, born and raised in Hong Kong. “Not at all” she said. “Not mine either” said I (born and raised in another

March 3, 2014 Short URLachievement, achievement gap, best practice, California, California school districts, education, parental involvement, parental participation, public education, Public Policy, school, school district, school districts, school meeting, student engagement, student success, successPublic Schools, Uncategorized

Where Things Come from and Where They Go to

How much do we really think? Here’s an example. Toilets are a vital component of world health, yet we rarely give them a second thought. For us, they are just there when we need them. Just like almost everything else in our secure western world. The truth is that complex interconnected systems deliver food, energy, clothing, consumer

March 1, 2014 Short URLchildren, contect, critical thinking, critical thinking skills, education, education reform, einstein, job, leftie, nut job, politics, poverty, radical, reform, republican platform, subversive, system, systems thinking, teacher, Texas, thinking, training, workflowUncategorized

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The Mystery of the Black Box

The Case Against Books

Parental Involvement: Cause or Correlation?

Where Things Come from and Where They Go to

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