2022 HML Post Archives

HML Posts for 2022

September 20, 2022

1. Public Education- Imperative for Democracy by Berliner and Westheimer
2. Why Even the Best Charter Schools are Fundamentally Inequitable by Steven Singer
3. The new political races: state school superintendents by Juana Summers
4. Public schools aren’t for just children or parents, but society as a whole by Adam Byrn Tritt
5. Five Tricks to Maximizing Meetings
6. Five Habits That Keep Your Brain Young by Jessica Stillman
7. The power of Young Professionals Embracing the Changing Membership Landscape on the Association Universe site.
8. Recent Supreme Court Decision and the Implications for Public Schools by Derek Black and Jessica Levin
9. Seven Predictions For The Future Of Education by Aric Mitchell
10. High-Performing Teams Don’t Leave Relationships to Chance by Ron Friedman
11. The Cartoon of the Week
12. The School Leader’s Special Topics
13. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

September 13, 2022

1. Trust in teachers is plunging amid a culture war in education by Hannah Natanson
2. How to Give a Killer Presentation by Chris Anderso
3. Recent Supreme Court Decision and the Implications for Public Schools with Derek Black and Jessica Levin.
4. Can We Have an Honest Conversation About Phones In the Classroom? on the  A.J. Juinali site.
5. Redesigning University Principal Preparation Programs: A Systemic Approach for Change and Sustainability by Rebecca Herman
6. 20 Ways to Connect with an Audience for Lasting Influence on the Garner site.
7. 3 Reasons Why the Whole Team Needs to Be Part of Your PR Strategy by David Martin
8. Virtual charter schools see enrollments rise by Valerie Strauss and Carol Burris
9. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting by Roger Schwarz
10. PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools on the Kappan site
11. Thanks, But No Thanks: Why Teachers Don’t Want to Be Administrators by Elizabeth Heubeck
12. The Best Leaders Follow These 13 Rules of Cross-Functional Collaboration by Lisa Dziuba
13. The Cartoon of the Week
14. The School Leader’s Special Topics
15. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

September 6, 2022

1. School Superintendents Head for the Exits by Greg Toppo
2. Recent Supreme Court Decision and the Implications for Public Schools: A discussion with Derek black and Jessica Levin.
3. What Teachers Make. by Taylor Mai
4. 10 Steps Schools and Districts Can Take to Address New and Ongoing COVID-19 Challenges by Jennifer A. Bland
5. Strategies revealed for effective delivery of K-12 online education by Laura Oleniacz
6. A solid transition process helps new leaders chart a clear course forward by Joshua Starr
7. The New Superintendent’s Entry Plan and Checklist. (Click here to download the checklist.)
8. Back to school means back to fighting far-right attacks on education. By  Ben Jealous
9. School cellphone rules: Why they’re such a difficult call for districts by Matt Zalaznick
10. Is It Time to Say Farewell to the Beloved Status Meeting?  by Bilal Aijazi
11. Classroom Grades Show Learning Better than Standardized Test Scores by Steven Singer
12. The Failure of American Public Education by John Hood
13. School Is for Hope by Gabrielle Oliveira
14. What is a school for? on the New York Times site.
15. The Cartoon of the Week
16. The School Leader’s Special Topics
17. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

August 30, 2022

1. Recent Supreme Court Decision and the Implications for Public Schools by Derek Black and Jessica Levin
2. Americans Increasingly See Political Polarization Overtaking Public Education by D.J. Tuccille
3. Teacher ‘pay penalty’ hits new high by Valerie Strauss
4. Majority of Adults Don’t Trust Educators to Handle Sensitive Topics by Kevin Mahnken
5. A profession in crisis by Teresa Preston
6. The chance has arrived for a rebirth of our schools by William Mathis
7. Sweden’s experiment in school privatization by Filippa Mannerheim
8. 5 Effective Ways to Build a Winning Team by Lynn Power
9. Being an Introvert Doesn’t Make You a Bad Leader. It Just Might by Sofia Laurell
10. Empathy isn’t enough. Why inclusive design principles unlock what leaders need by Katie Schlott
11. In Uncertain Times, the Best Strategy Is Adaptability by Michael Mankins
12. College football’s new era of greed by Brian Wakamo
13. Book banning in U.S. schools has reached an all-time high by Christian Thorsberg
14. The Cartoon of the Week
15. The School Leader’s Special Topics
16. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

August 24, 2022

1. Recent Supreme Court Decision and the Implications for Public Schools by Derek Black and Jessica Levin
2. My Incredibly Short Career as a Brain Surgeon and Some Thoughts About Teaching by David Berliner
3. Staffing, attendance, behavior: 7 big issues facing schools this year by  Kalyn Belsha
4. America’s Censored Classrooms on the PEN America site
5. The Great Charter School Scam by Carol Burris
6. Parents of highly successful adults—here are 4 phrases they never used when their kids were young by Margot Machol Bisnow
7. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire
8. What Do We Mean by Liberal Education? by Wilfred McClay
9. How to Make Your Ideas Come to Life by Gary Genard
10. The Best Advice for New Teachers, in 5 Words or Less: 2022 Edition by Marina Whiteleather

August 16, 2022

1. Some Excellent Books by Some Great HML Members
2. Equity-Based Leadership: Leveraging Complexity to Transform School Systems by Joshua Starr
3. Let’s Share Our Ideas About Educational Leadership by Louis Wildman
4. City Schools and the American Dream: The Enduring Promise of Public Education by Pedro Noguera
5. Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
6. Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Cellphones in Schools by Emily Boudreau
7. Your teacher shortage stories are all wrong by Sy Doan
8. The Plan To Devastate Public Education in America by Brynn Tannehill
9. Public Broadly Supports School Security – But Not Armed Teachers and Staff from the PDK Annual Survey
10. Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change minds by Beth Daley
11. 4 Ways to Communicate with More Empathy by Joel Schwartzberg
12. Don’t Grade Schools on Grit by Angela Duckworth
13. Later start times present new challenges for school leaders by Ashleigh Panoo
14. Rise and Shine: How school start times affect academic performance by Jennifer Heisel
15. Top Tips for Persuading Others by G. Richard Shell
16. Your Nominations for 2023 League Awardees
17. Why it’s so hard to change Your mind by Malcolm Gladwell
18. The Cartoon of the Week

1. Some Excellent Books by Some Great HML Members
2. Five Mistakes Most Public Speakers Make
3. To meet the changing needs of small school districts
4. Florida Debates If School Superintendents Should Be Elected or Appointed
5. The Necessary Art of Persuasion
6. States Crack Open the Door to Teachers Without College Degrees
7. America faces a catastrophic teacher shortage
8. 5 best practices as schools brace for monkeypox
9. A Simple Way to Introduce Yourself
10. Us vs. Them and the paradox of education
11. Rules for Persuasive Dissent
12. Your Nominations for 2023 League Awardees
13. The Promises of Charter Schools
14. The Cartoon of the Week

1. The Assessments We Use: Information for a Revolt by David Berliner
2. Vigilant Leaders: Paying Attention to What Matters Most
3. How to Stay Cool When You’re Put on the Spot
4. California’s crack-of-dawn school ban could set a national trend
5. The Business Side of School Success:: What Superintendents and Other School Leaders Need to Know
6. Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge by Henry Giroux
7. 4 Non-Negotiables for Starting a Successful Podcast
8. CNN Special Report: Deep In The Pockets Of Texas
9. How Administrators Can Help Prevent Teacher Burnout
10. Formulating a Successful Grow-Your-Own Teacher Residency Program
11. Become a better listener by doing these 3 simple things
12. How to Improve Your Website’s Navigation
13. How to Work Smarter
14. Thanks, But No Thanks: Why Teachers Don’t Want to Be Administrators
15. The Cartoon of the Week

1. The Comingling of Neoliberal Ideology, Methods, and Funding in School Choice Politics and Research
2. State of the Superintendent — High Job Satisfaction and a Projected Normal Turnover Rate
3. It’s Time to Reimagine Employee Retention
4. Supreme Court Decision Paves Way for Public Funds to Flow to Religious Schools
5. The Four Steps to Creating Lasting Change in Any Area of Your Life
6. State Ranking by Education
7. 17 Tricks Emotionally Intelligent People Use to Avoid Awkward Conversations and Get Along With Everyone
8. Arizona’s Teacher-Prep in the Classroom: College “Enrolled” Is Good Enough
9. Teachers Share The Main Differences Between Students Then And Now
10. Try these 5 supremely simple strategies to solve any problem from disagreements to projects
11. Want to Raise Successful Kids? Neuroscience Says Do This
12. The Six-month Plan for Success: An Overview of the superintendent’s 6-Month Entry Plan
13. Sex ed was in trouble before Roe v. Wade’s reversal. Now the curriculum matters even more by Nadra Nittle
14. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

April 26, 2022

• Top 10 Skills of 2025: What They Mean For Facilitators and Learners by A.J. Juliani
• 4 kinds of regret — and what they teach you about yourself by Daniel Pink
• Why do rural districts prefer four-day weeks? by Anna Merod
• The culture wars’ next frontier: Public libraries by Annie Gowen
• ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens by Matt Richtel
• How the Right can lose the education argument by Daniel Buck
• Kennedy v. the Bremerton School District on the Americans United site
• Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools by Carol Burris
• More than 765 Charter Schools Have Closed in Three Years by Shawgi Tell
• The Top 10 Signs of Nervous Body Language by Gary Genard
• What research has been conducted on the effectiveness of different types of elementary school configurations? on the Institute of Educational Science
• Enrollment plummets at colleges, especially among men by Nina Shapiro
• Lessons Learned from Strategic Plan Failures
• The Horace Mann League Podcast Series
• Cartoon of the Week
• The School Leader’s Special Topics
• Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

1. Lessons from the Insurrection: Will the Center Hold? by William J. Mathis
2. Why is a Gates-Funded, Anti-Union, Charter Advocacy Group by Steven Singer
3. Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Harm Done by Federally Mandated Testing by Jan Resseger
4. Create a Growth Culture, Not a Performance-Obsessed One by Tony Schwartz
5. The incredible shrinking wall between church and state by Michelle Boorstein
6. Is empathy something you can learn? by Art Markman
7. 5 Key Habits of Great Leaders by Samantha Madhosingh
8. A glimpse at How Education Will Possibly Look Like in 2050 by Rachel R. Hill
9. “It’s Not a School Problem: An Interview with Diane Ravitch” by Jake Silverstein
10. The Best Advice for New Principals, in 6 Words or Less by Marina Whiteleather
11. The Six-month Plan for Success: An Overview of the superintendent’s 6-Month Entry Plan
12. Sex ed was in trouble before Roe v. Wade’s reversal. Now the curriculum matters even more by Nadra Nittle
13. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. Collaborating on University Principal Preparation Program Redesign: A Summary of Findings for University Principal Preparation Program Providers
2. What Makes a Great Administrator Retreat
3. 4 Major Types of Educational Leadership
4. Why You Should Put a Little More Thought into Your Out-of-Office Message
5. 6 things that will make you healthier and help you live longer
6. 21 Soft Skills for Leadership Success
7. Two Questions to Ask Before Setting Your Strategy
8. Does keeping students with the same teacher for multiple years boost outcomes?
9. What Your Email Sign-Off Says About You
10. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. The Supreme Court and Education: Key Rulings That Impact Schools
2. Supreme Court Is Eroding the Wall Between Church and State
3. Lawyer: Kennedy’s attorney fees in the prayer case could run into the millions
4. 3 Reasons Your Audience Isn’t Buying From You (Even If They Love You)
5. Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
6. Great Leaders Are Confident, Connected, Committed, and Courageous
7. Privatizing Schooling and Policy Making: The American Legislative Exchange Council and New Political and Discursive Strategies of Education Governance
8. 6 Tips for Education Leaders Working Toward Equitable Schools
9. Scrutinizing the School Choice Equity Ethos for Black Parents
10. What Your Email Sign-Off Says About You
11. 10 Landscape Composition Techniques for Breathtaking Photos
12. Should You Be Drinking Water First Thing in the Morning? Here Are 6 Healthy Perks
13. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. Public funds can’t be excluded from religious instruction
2. Supreme Court Strikes Down Maine’s Exclusion of Religious Schools From Tuition-Aid Program
3. Supreme Court OKs use of public money for religious education
4. Dismantling the wall between church and state: The case of public education
5. U.S. Supreme Court Releases Two Decisions Related to Public Education
6. SCOTUS sides with football coach in school prayer case
7. The Biggest Disruption in the History of American Education
8. Small Actions Make Great Leaders
9. 5 Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Job
10. (Download free) Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
11. The Principles of Learning: It All Starts With Attention
12. (Download free) 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass

1. 9 Essential Soft Skills For Leadership Success
2. The Leadership Skills That Matter Most
3. Educators are the most burned-out professionals in the U.S.
4. What a Systematic Review of 32 Evaluations Says About the Impact of School-Based Law Enforcement
5. Is There Still a Public for Public Education?
6. Necessary But Insufficient Why Public Schooling Alone Cannot Equalize
7. The Bipartisan Rejection of ‘School Choice’
8. How to Make Meetings Less Tedious and More Engaging
9. 6 Strategies for Making a Good First Impression During Business Meetings
10. 8 Communication Styles Every Leader Should Know
11. Solomon’s Paradox: “pragmatic reasoning that helps people navigate life’s challenges
12. The Resilient Educator / How to Coach Resilience in Leaders
13. When five shrinks to four: Assessing the four-day school week in rural locales
14. (Download free) Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
15. The Principles of Learning: It All Starts With Attention
16. (Download free) 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
17. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series
18. The School Leader’s Special Topics

1. Public education, democracy, and the future of America by Peter Grier
2. Too Wordy? — 7 Ways to Speak Concisely!  by Gary Genard
3. Getting the Most Out of Your Website A Step-by-Step Guide to Greatness on the Growth Zone
4. You’re Telling a Story With Your Deck, Right? … Right? by Gary Genard
5. Red Flags to Watch Out for in a Job Interview by Rebecca Zucker
6. Leadership void: Why districts are struggling to find new superintendents. by Matt Zalaznick
7. Research Matters / Building the Implementation Bridge by Dale Lewis
8. 7 Ways to Cultivate a Climate of Belonging on the Emergenetics
9. HML President Promotes Public Education
10. School Shootings Are Too Common, but Schools Are Still Relatively Safe by Aaron Kupchik
11. Opinion:  I’m a Texas teacher. Here are all the things I’m asked to be by Madeline Vosch
12. (Download) Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
13. Tips to Improve your Zoom Metings
14. (Download) 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
15. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. Every public educator refuses to come back to their schools in the fall unless . . . by David C. Berliner
2. A Resolution to Cause Action on Legislation to Restrict Access to Assault Weapons by Jack Mckay
3. Students Should Refuse to Go Back to School by Gal Beckerman
4. A Disturbing New Pattern in Mass Shootings: Young Assailants by Glenn Thrush
5. How to Respond When an Employee Quits by Rebecca Zucker
6. Here Are 9 Things That Make a Good School by Shawntas Barnes
7. These 4 principal PD strategies are backed by decades of research by Matt Zalaznick
8. What’s Your Listening Style by Rebecca D. Minehart
9. Democracy’s Wobbly Cornerstone. Seeking to be the “Great Equalizer” by Jeanne Oakes
10. Images that Might Say More than Words
11. How to respond sensibly to the Uvalde shooting by Dale Chu
12. (Download) Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
13. (Download) 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
14. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series\

1. Every public educator refuses to come back to their schools in the fall unless . . . by David C. Berliner,
2. You. This is your fault. By Christine Emba
3. Responding to Tragedy on the ASCD site.
4. New scapegoat for mass shootings: ‘Culture’ by Paul Waldman
5. Attributing mass shootings to mental illness is not just incorrect — it exacerbates stigma by Lauren B. Simonds
6. The Mythical Great Equalizer School System: Exploring the Potential to Make It Real by Kevin Welner – Reviewed by James Harvey
7. School of the Future on the PBS site.
8. Haven’t Networked in a While? Here’s How to Jump Back In by Dorie Clark
9. Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters? by Linda Darling-Hammond
10. How to Be Clear and Powerful when Presenting Your Ideas by Gary Genard
11. Images that Might Say More than Words
12. The guide to writing an opinion article by the Washington Post Staff
13. Confidence is not the problem by Angela Duckworth
14. Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
15. 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
16. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. With Plunging Enrollment, a ‘Seismic Hit’ to Public Schools by Shawn Hubler
2. What Biden should say to charter school supporters now attacking him by Valerie Strauss
3. How Charter SchoolShapeTheir Enrollment by Kevin Welner.
4. Why Virginia Gov. Youngkin is wrong about student NAEP scores by James Harvey.
5. The Great Equalizer of the Conditions of Humanity by Peter Smagorinsky
6. What is the ‘great replacement’? by Dustin Jones
7. Think You Have a Great Idea? Ask These 6 Questions to Gain Perspective by Sabina Nawaz
8. To Come Up with Better Ideas, Practice Paying Attention by Bill Taylor
9. Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success by David Berliner
10. 5 Mistakes You Need to Avoid When Selecting a Video Tool for Online Learning on the TechSmith site.
11. School Librarians Are Disappearing: Here’s Why They Shouldn’t by Nikki DeMarco
12. Staff shortages and increased school funding create a conundrum By Erin Albanese
13. Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
14. 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
15. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. Assistant Executive Director Appointed – Dr. Jeanne Collins
2. Investigating school leadership at a time of system diversity, competition, and flux by Steven John Courtney
3. Stumbling Blocks that Get in the Way of Strategic Planning by Graham Kenny
4. What you should know about Plyler, the case protecting undocumented students’ education rights by Matt Barnum
5. 9 most effective strategies for boosting teacher morale by Matt Zalaznick
6. Should School Sports Prioritize Participation Over Competition? by Ariel Gans
7. Stressed Superintendents in a Time of COVID by Emily Boudreau
8. How to Ask for Feedback from an Interviewer by Marlo Lyons
9. The Fragmentation of Education Governance and the Promise of Curriculum Reform reviewed by Simone A. Fried
10. “What’s Not to Like About Private Schools,” by Jack Jennings
11. End the Birthday Bias by Pablo A. Peña
12. Is Charter School Teaching Similar To Or Different From Teaching in Regular Schools? by Larry Cuban
13. Ranking of states for beginning teacher salaries, average teacher salaries, and spending per student by Matt Zalaznick
14. What research has been conducted on collaborative leadership?
15. Are we paying attention to the right things? by Joshua Starr
16. Possible futures: The policy changes we need to get there by Linda Darling-Hammond
17. How to become a better listener, according to science by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
18. Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
19. 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
20. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. Assistant Executive Director Appointed – Dr. Jeanne Collins
2. Investigating school leadership at a time of system diversity, competition, and flux by Steven John Courtney
3. Stumbling Blocks that Get in the Way of Strategic Planning by Graham Kenny
4. What you should know about Plyler, the case protecting undocumented students’ education rights by Matt Barnum
5. 9 most effective strategies for boosting teacher morale by Matt Zalaznick
6. Should School Sports Prioritize Participation Over Competition? by Ariel Gans
7. Stressed Superintendents in a Time of COVID by Emily Boudreau
8. How to Ask for Feedback from an Interviewer by Marlo Lyons
9. The Fragmentation of Education Governance and the Promise of Curriculum Reform reviewed by Simone A. Fried
10. “What’s Not to Like About Private Schools,” by Jack Jennings
11. End the Birthday Bias by Pablo A. Peña
12. Is Charter School Teaching Similar To Or Different From Teaching in Regular Schools? by Larry Cuban
13. Ranking of states for beginning teacher salaries, average teacher salaries, and spending per student by Matt Zalaznick
14. What research has been conducted on collaborative leadership?
15. Are we paying attention to the right things? by Joshua Starr
16. Possible futures: The policy changes we need to get there by Linda Darling-Hammond
17. How to become a better listener, according to science by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
18. Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
19. 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
20. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1.  The Globalization of Education Privatization by Antoni Verger
2. Oligarch Money to Privatize Public Schools by Tom Ultican
3. Key Takeaways From Praying-Coach Case by Mark Walsh
4. What the Best Presenters Do Differently by Carmine Gallo
5. Banned PowerPoint in Meetings by Carmine Gallo
6. When NOT To Use Powerpoint by Phil Cooke
7. 10-20-30 Rule of a PowerPoint Presentation by Guy Kawasaki
8. Top 10 Reasons School Choice Is No Choice by Steven Singer
9. In Times of Crisis by Bill Mathis, reviewed by James Harvey
10. Time to Reform the Federal Charter School Program by Diane Ravitch
11. Starting a New Job as a Career Professional by Marlo Lyons
12. Five Tricks to Maximizing Meetings on the Smartdraw site
13. Culturally Proficient Professional Learning to Enhance Learning Transfer: Guidance for Superintendents by Corinne Brion
14. The Superintendent’s 6-Month Entry Plan Edited by Jack McKay. Contributions by Martha Bruckner, Charles Fowler, Gene Sharratt, Larry Nyland, and John Erickson
15. What Great Principals Really Do by Jason A. Grissom
16. Communication E-Kit for Superintendents by Rich Bagin
17. 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education by David C . Berliner and Gene Glass
18. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

1. Top 10 Skills of 2025: What They Mean For Facilitators and Learners by A.J. Juliani
2. 4 kinds of regret — and what they teach you about yourself by Daniel Pink
3. Why do rural districts prefer four-day weeks? by Anna Merod
4. The culture wars’ next frontier: Public libraries by Annie Gowen
5. ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens by Matt Richtel
6. How the Right can lose the education argument by Daniel Buck
7. Kennedy v. the Bremerton School District on the Americans United site
8. Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools by Carol Burris
9. More than 765 Charter Schools Have Closed in Three Years by Shawgi Tell
10. The Top 10 Signs of Nervous Body Language by Gary Genard
11. What research has been conducted on the effectiveness of different types of elementary school configurations? on the Institute of Educational Science
12. Enrollment plummets at colleges, especially among men by Nina Shapiro
13. Lessons Learned from Strategic Plan Failures
14. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series

April 19, 2022

• Superintendents Come and Go by Larry Cuban
• Kennedy(football coach) v Bremerton School District
• Suits Challenging Book “Banning” May Be Better Politics than Law by Joshua Dunn
• Rightwing Money Escalates School Wars by Alan Singer
• A Profession in Crisis: Findings From a National Teacher Survey by Holly Kurtz
• The Science of Choking Under Pressure by Alyson Meister
• What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali
• The Cycles of the Superintendent’s Career edited by Jack Mckay
• How to Respond to an Unreasonable Request by Rebecca Zucker
• The homeschooling surge continues despite schools reopening by Carolyn Thompson
• The Gates Foundation and the Future of U.S. “Public” Schools by Philip E. Kovacs.
• Top 5 Charter School Myths Debunked by Steven Singer
• Ten Rules For Your Photographic Life by Jason Row
• Top 10 Tips to Make Your Hybrid Event a Success by Encore Global.
• Efforts to inject right-wing politics into schools spell trouble for education by The Editorial Board
• The Horace Mann League Podcast Series
• Cartoon of the Week
• The School Leader’s Special Topics
• Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

April 12, 2022

• Assistant Executive Director Vacancy
• The Future of Education by Miriam Plotinsky
• These 5 challenges are chipping away at the optimism of principals by Matt Zalaznick
• Another Point of View: Bureaucratic gremlins attack charter schools by Will Marshall
• This may be the most perilous National Library Week we’ve ever celebrated by Ron Charles
• Social and Emotional Learning and Whole Child Approaches in K–12 Education by Linda Darling Hammond
• Own the Speech and Your Performance of It by Gary Genard
• If Standardized Tests Were Going to Succeed, They Would Have Done So By Now by Steven Singer
• Change Is Hard. Here’s How to Make It Less Painful by Erika Andersen
• What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali
• Four things to know as SCOTUS weighs the coach’s prayer ritual by Naaz Modan
• The Cycles of the Superintendent’s Career edited by Jack Mckay
• The Horace Mann League Podcast Series
• Cartoon of the Week
• The School Leader’s Special Topics
• Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

April 5, 2022

1. Assistant Executive Director Vacancy
2. The Future of Education by Miriam Plotinsky
3. These 5 challenges are chipping away at the optimism of principals by Matt Zalaznick
4. Another Point of View: Bureaucratic gremlins attack charter schools by Will Marshall
5. This may be the most perilous National Library Week we’ve ever celebrated by Ron Charles
6. Social and Emotional Learning and Whole Child Approaches in K–12 Education by Linda Darling Hammond
7. Own the Speech and Your Performance of It by Gary Genard
8. If Standardized Tests Were Going to Succeed, They Would Have Done So By Now by Steven Singer
9. Change Is Hard. Here’s How to Make It Less Painful by Erika Andersen
10. What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali
11. Four things to know as SCOTUS weighs the coach’s prayer ritual by Naaz Modan
12. The Cycles of the Superintendent’s Career edited by Jack Mckay
13. The Horace Mann League Podcast Series
14. Cartoon of the Week
15. The School Leader’s Special Topics
16. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

 March 22, 2022

• An Invocation for Most Occasions by Stan Olson
• A lesson in hypocrisy — what’s really behind the ‘parent choice’ movement by Liz Willen
• Violence against educators was cited as a factor in the desire to quit or transfer by Kara Arundel
• How to Solve Problems by Laura Amico
• Learn to Trust Your Intuition When Making Tough Decisions by Melody Wilding
• Equity and Equality in the Public Schools by Hammond and Starr
• The End of Public Schools? 5 Community School Concerns by Nancy Bailey
• Too Many Americans Don’t Understand What Happens in Their Schools by Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara
• How to Steer Clear of Groupthink by Jennifer Mueller
• This is what happens to your brain when you give and receive compliments by Stephanie Zossa
• The Horace Mann League Podcast Series
• Getting Beyond “Stuck” on Equity in Schools by Evan Gutierrez
• Schools primed for ‘militant teacher strikes’ over post-COVID pay, benefits, and respect by Erin Richards
• Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy Edited by Berliner and Hermanns
• Is educational leadership (still) worth studying? An epistemic worthiness-informed analysis by Linda Evans
• Did charter schools game the system? Many cashed in on forgiven PPP loans they didn’t actually need by Carol Burris
• Some Questions a Superintendent might ask in the Interview ProcessBrian Benzel, Collins, and McKay
• The School Leader’s Special topics and Archived Posts (Updated)
• Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

March 15, 2022

1. Teachers Want More Online, On-Demand, and Targeted Professional Learning Opportunities by Kristal Kuykendall
2. We know principals are important, so why doesn’t anyone want to be one these days? by Elina Alyeva
3. What Is Education For? by Sir Ken Robinson
4. Smacked by the invisible hand: the wrong debate at the wrong time with the wrong people. by Dan Laitsch
5. How Supportive Leaders Approach Emotional Conversations by Sarah Noll
6. Let’s Dump the Obsession With Standardized Testing by Larry Ferlazzo
7. 3 Practices That Set Resilient Teams Apart by Keith Ferrazzi
8. Can You Learn Leadership Presence? YES! by Gary Genard
9. Too Many Americans Don’t Understand What Happens in Their Schools by Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara
10. How to Steer Clear of Groupthink by Jennifer Mueller
11. This is what happens to your brain when you give and receive compliments by Stephanie Zossa
12. Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy. Edited by David C. Berliner and Carl Hermanns
13. Getting Beyond “Stuck” on Equity in Schools by Evan Gutierrez
14. Some Relevant Cartoons to Make Your Day!
15. The School Leader’s Special topics and Archived Posts (Updated)
16. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

March 8, 2022

• District Leaders See Mental Health of Students, Staff As Top Concern by Kristal Kuykendall
• The New Superintendent’s Six-Month Entry Plan on the HML site.
• Rural America shrinks over a decade for the first time by Reid Wilson
• Teacher Shortages Take Center Stage by Desiree Carver-Thomas
• Nearly half of the public schools were impacted by staffing shortages, resignations by Naaz Modan
• Self-Conscious as a Speaker? — How to Calm Your Nerves and Gain Confidence by Gary Genard
• What It Now Takes to Hire a Superintendent by Stephen Sawchuk
• Smash-and-grab education reform by Dale Chu
• How to Interrupt Someone’s Workday — Without Annoying Them by Elana Feldman
• How Effective Leaders Use the Personal Pronoun “I” by Art Petty
• Best Practices for Using Pronouns in the Workplace and Everyplace! by Stephanie Eagan
• Equity and Equality in the Public Schools Podcast by Darling Hammond and Starr
• Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy. Edited by David C. Berliner and Carl Hermanns
• Some Relevant Cartoons to Make Your Day!
• The School Leader’s Special topics and Archived Posts (Updated)
• Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

March 1, 2022

• The New Superintendent’s Six-Month Entry Plan on the HML site.
• Four Questions Every New Superintendent Should Ask by Jonathan Travers
• Podcasts for Next Year: What’s Important to you? What’s on your mind? by Bill Mathis
• Scientists Finally Did a Study to See If Taking 10,000 Steps a Day Actually Matters. Here’s What They Found by Jessica Stillman
• Investing for Student Success: Lessons from State School Finance Reforms by Linda Darling-Hammon
• Beating back book bans: How to keep a challenge from becoming a crisis by Matt Zalaznick
• Read the Books That Schools Want to Ban by Emma Sarappo
• Agile Doesn’t Work Without Psychological Safety by Timothy R. Clark
• How the Stoplight Review Method Helped Me Cut Dozens of Meetings by Jeff Steen
• The Horace Mann League Podcast Series
• Whether charters are public or private schools on the NYC Educator site
• Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy. Edited by David C. Berliner and Carl Hermanns
• Some Relevant Cartoons to Make Your Day!
• The School Leader’s Special topics and Archived Posts (Updated)
• Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents