By Charles Sosnik   About a week ago, the world changed. It’s a new reality for everyone, especially those of you who are working from home for the first time. The most important thing you can do is to establish an office. Ideally, it should be in a separate room in your home, someplace ...

  By Charles Sosnik Kudos to the team at FETC. Like many of you, I am a veteran of nearly one hundred education conferences and events over my lifetime. In just this past year, I found myself in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and Miami. All great cities. All great events. As I get older, I ...

  By Charles Sosnik   I think it was the immortal Drew Carey who said, “If life beats you down long enough, sooner or later life will get tired.” Or said another way, Illegitimi non carborundum. That’s Latin for “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” If you are one of the 30 percent of ...

  By Charles Sosnik   It’s not often that we get good news from Washington D.C. As the seat of our nation’s government, we are inundated with stories about in-fighting and partisan politics. Even the school system, D.C. Public Schools, has traditionally been a political hot bed with far too many politicians weighing in. In ...

Please note, this is writer’s opinion. By Charles Sosnik Whether you have kids in school, work for a school or simply watch the news, you know schools are dealing with a lot. They are going through a very difficult time, trying to modernize and keep up with the technological world around them. Schools are dealing ...

  By Charles Sosnik   It’s as if schools are sitting on the deck of the Titanic, playing music as the great ocean liner descends into the murky depths of the North Atlantic. As the band plays on, their music is filled with our day-to-day challenges. We are engulfed in issues like superintendent firings, metal detectors ...

  By Charles Sosnik   It hardly even registers anymore. Google and YouTube agreed to pay $170 Million for violating child privacy rights. There was a time when that might have meant something. But news of tech companies breaking laws and paying massive fines really have no meaning. Or at least, no consequences. A couple ...

  By Charles Sosnik   When I first met Michael Covitt and he told me about his film, “333,” I just had to ask: “What’s a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn doing in a place like this?” The place I was referring to was Mali, a small country in Africa which for hundreds of years was ...