Thought Leaders

In November, I attended a Zoom meeting with one of our P-TECH students who had a rough first semester. The student is capable of much greater academic success than what he had demonstrated.  In turn, each school employee softly admonished the student...

The journey of life is filled with valleys, which prove to be the classroom to prepare us for the battles we will face. On August 29, 2014 at 2:58 p.m. I watched as my wife of nearly 24 years take her last breath and pass into the arms of our Heavenly Father. At 44...

Jumping into your time machine for the 20thCentury, you might want to recruit General Motors or Saturn for a 5,000-person factory. In the 21st Century, you might seek Tesla or Amazon for the same objective. But do you really want to instantly inject a herd of...

My Granddad had a great influence on my life. He and my Grandmother raised two boys during the depression, and it resulted in him becoming what some would say “a very hard man”. His motto was “Better well done than well said-let’s get to work!” I remember...

Leaders have the responsibility of trying to make things better. Almost always, it’s a heavy lift. H ere’s one of my favorite definitions of leadership: The craft of moving others by influencing them to do things they would not do of their own accord, or at a...

“Love, Serve, Lead…#FindYourJoy”, this is something that I have thought about a lot over the past few years.  I have always touted myself as a servant leader, and still believe that my intention is to be a servant leader.  As I continue my readings...

About ten years ago this March, the FISD board took a chance on a young administrator with zero years of superintendent experience and I appreciated the confidence the board had in me to take on this great responsibility of leading such an amazing...

Influence is an interesting dynamic. We can think of it as the act of impacting some sort of outcome through unobvious and often indirect means. The Earth is a physical body, yet it influences weather patterns, seasonal changes, celestial bodies beyond itself. The Sun...

“Clarity of vision will compensate for uncertainty in planning. If you are clear and confident about the destination, you can handle a few detours along the way. If you are unclear about the destination of the journey, even the most sophisticated, well-thought-through...

I recently read The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America by Anthony Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, & Jeff Strohl (2020). My top takeaways: Educational separation and sorting, by race and class, begins in kindergarten. College...