By Charles Sosnik “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”      –George Santayana   This is one of my favorite quotes, but with so many variables happening today, I am finding it difficult to place things into context. As a student of History, I find a certain amount of comfort ...

  By LeiLani Cauthen What’s to become of learning from what we have learned during the COVID-19 crisis? It’s a struggle for anyone who sees patterns to communicate them adequately. One always sounds like they are spouting gibberish and insanely trying to predict the future. Actually, predicting the future always relies on some basic things ...

  By Tamara Fyke   Yesterday I was part of a strategy meeting with a Nashville non-profit that provides school-based services.  The team includes a mix of working moms and single women who are working as university professors, school counselors, teachers, and non-profit leaders.  We reviewed the work in progress and talked about the coming ...

  By Charles Sosnik   Do you remember how it felt to be a teenager? You yearned so much for independence as your hormones and emotions were careening throughout your body like a Bally pinball machine. You were so self-conscious, worrying about your clothes, your acne and what the other kids thought of you. And ...

By LeiLani Cauthen Schools, Districts and companies selling to them have questions, and forebodings. There are two lines of thought: In the Fall, things will get back to normal. Then in about eighteen months, budget cuts are coming for K12 everywhere, with the exception of approximately $13.5 Billion coming in the new CARES Act stimulus. ...