The Superintendent's Chair

Personal reflections about education as seen from the Superintendent's chair.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

This heartache will stop hurting - eventually

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As I was driving home from watching the Novi High School girls' soccer team play a Division One State Semi-final game, listening to song...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Waffles, Pop Tarts, and Starbursts: Navigating a new world

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While I like to think of myself as young, there are times when I feel old. This, for example, makes me feel old. And this . . . ...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Undervaluing our students

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Jimbo Fisher is the head football coach of the Florida State Seminoles. Last season he earned $3.7 million dollars. This is not a ran...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The knuckleball and innovation in schools

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RA Dickey is a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. He throws the knuckleball. While a member of the New York Mets RA Dickey won the CY Y...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Do we expect more from technology and less from each other?

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Sherry Turkle gave an interesting TED talk in 2012 about the rise of technology and the fall of human connectedness. It is worth 19 minutes ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Distracting ourselves to death

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A random tweet on a random Tuesday makes me think that we pay too much attention to "what" we are teaching and not enough attentio...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Dear Novi Students: Meet my Uncle Gordon

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Dear Novi Students, You probably have never heard of, never been to, and don't know much about Vinita, Oklahoma. Guy Fieri, celebrit...
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