What is the International Baccalaureate Education Model?
Montessori, Waldorf, Harkness. There are a variety of alternative education models out there, with the success of each depending on the learning style of the child. While I went to one of their high schools, I had never considered the International Baccalaureate model...
Part IV: Arbitration
Inthis story I want to highlight the use of arbitration. I am no expert in this matter and I share below only based on my own experience. There is a reason that so many large corporate players make us sign fine print that binds us to arbitration. This saves our court...
Part III: Agency-Level Autoimmune Malfunction
How can the NYCDOE so blatantly ignore the rules while falsely substantiating charges to justify their general claims of my of being “loose with the rules,” an allegation they have failed to substantiate in front of an ‘impartial’ arbitrator? The answer is that they...
Part II: Incompetence as a Strategy
One great overriding example how how adult professional bullying is “fuzzy around the corners” as I previously wrote is incompetence. Despite an operating budget of over $25 Billion, the NYCDOE administration is well known for simple incompetence regardless of who the...
Part I: Introduction
Ina recent story I made mention of my wife and I fighting for my professional life against large counter-parties: the UFT ($180 Million) and NYCDOE ($25.6 Billion) banded together to revoke my principal license, without cause and against the expressed objection of my...
At Age 43, I Finally Learned How to Read
I am a high school principal in New York City. Well, kind of. But that’s not the point. The point is that after fifteen years in Education, I have known about the link between reading and writing because some of the best ELA teachers in NYC worked for me and they...
The Benefits of Early Childhood Education
I am torn when thinking of early childhood education. Children's’ experiences in their first three years of life are the most crucial to their longtime life outcomes. Ideally, all young humans would be allowed to spend those early years with one or more loving parents...
The Importance of Teaching Children to be Innovative
By the time a child has reached the age of 12, they’ve learned that it’s more important to get the right answers than it is to ask thoughtful questions. The current education system focuses on teaching kids how to produce correct answers, but not how to find and...
Racial Bias in Education
Students who experience a transformational educational experience usually do so because an adult in a school saw their potential well before they saw it themselves. The converse is also true. Teachers expect that 58 percent of their white high school students...
Why is the U.S. Education System Failing?
The United States spends on average $16,268 a year on each student. The global average is $10,759. Spending so much money on each student may make it seem like the U.S. is offering a better quality of education, but that assumption would be wrong. In fact, American...