For thirty seconds of advertising, it costs three million dollars.  Two minutes and our school’s entire annual budget would be covered including compensation for all 100 employees for a whole year.  But we would have to persuade GM, Doritos and Coca-Cola to pick up the tab.   Here’s the contrast ...

I spoke with our students this past week with some comments on Martin Luther King, Jr.  This past Tuesday morning, they watched and listened to his historic speech of August 28, 1963 with 250,000 people in attendance.  And, as one of our Principals said, they showed up without the ...

Paul Wenninger lives, writes and teaches in Albuquerque, NM. He was an SFLC Fellow in April 2010. The Ideal. In a very predictable manner television can deliver a full array of drama, action, romance, irony and opinion. If we like the personalities we generally approve and feel stimulated ...

Tom Rosenbluth is the Head of the Middle School, Francis W. Parker School. He recently attended the SFLC Seminar, Deciding to Lead. In this article he writes about the gap between the ideal and the real in his work in a middle school environment and the role of chaos ...