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The Opportunity for K-12 Students in Public Schools: Teaching Leadership via Cable in the Classroom and via the Internet

Concept Paper  by Herb Rubenstein President and Founder, Growth Strategies Inc. Introduction The focus today in K-12 education is reading, writing and arithmetic. Teaching to the “standard,” be it history, grammar, foreign languages, math or science is seen as the … Continue reading

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Are Schools Really A “National Security Threat”

The recent Klein/Rice Panel on Education concluded in March, 2012 that our Pre K – 12 schools are so bad, they are a national security threat. Do you think this is so? Also, what do you recommend that we do … Continue reading

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Responding Intelligently To The Cheating Scandals

Pre-K – 12 education in the United States is under attack from many fronts.  Budgets are being cut across the nation.  Teacher turnover and teacher cutbacks are on the rise.  Class sizes are getting larger. Standardized tests are changing the … Continue reading

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Cheating: A Failure of Ethical Leadership in Education

Ethical leadership has been legislated in the business sector and is enforced by numerous government agencies.  But what about ethical lapses in education. And, for that matter, what about criminal activity by teachers and principals – how do we deal … Continue reading

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Why Are Teachers Not Trained in Leadership?

We ask this question because clearly many of the job duties of a teacher are leadership duties and require leadership competencies.  We are dumbfounded that so few teachers are trained in leadership either in their training to become a teachers … Continue reading

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It is not Teachers VS. Principals:

Everyone in education has witnessed wars between teachers and principals.  Sometimes teachers are right.  Sometimes principals are right.  However, whenever a teacher and a principal go to war, the students and education in general, becomes the biggest loser.  We are … Continue reading

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Why Can’t Teachers Delegate?

Every time we train teachers in leadership, we find that teachers are not trained in the art of delegation.  Cynics might think that teachers are at the bottom of the totem pole in education and they have no one to  … Continue reading

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Teachers Are Leaders:

Going back to Robert Fox’s seminal article in 1956, Teaching Is Leadership, it is clear that we have come a long way in education and in the wrong direction.  In 2011 teachers are not viewed in the profession, by themselves, … Continue reading

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Teachers are School Site Leaders, Too!

I agree with much of Frederick Brown’s blog submission on leadership improvements needed in schools (February 9, 2011, Learning Forward, www.learningforward.org). However, I do want to add that principals are not the only “school site leaders.”  In our book Leadership … Continue reading

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