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So, You Want to Run for the School Board?

It’s Time to Focus on District Leadership

The Farm Progress Show Definitely Paid Off

A Proposal to Help Our Test Score Problem

The Case Against a “Standardized Curriculum”

When Decatur Makes National News It’s Never Good

The Keys to Effective Schools

Hiring for Hard to Fill Teaching Positions

No RTI - WTF!

What Informs Your Decisions?

Different Day, Same Struggles

Plan B – We Don’t Like it Either

This Has Not Gone Well for Anyone

5,375 Reasons Not to Build a New Dennis School

A $79.6 Million Update

Time for a Reorganization

First Principles for a New Administration

Ban Cell Phones from Decatur Public Schools… Now

Absenteeism in Decatur Public Schools

AP Classes: Are We Sure?

It’s Time to Face Reality

Wading into the Weeds

Decatur’s Teacher Retention Problem

The Role of the School Board

Thoughts on our new Superintendent

The Last School Board - A Review

District 61's Very Own "Infrastructure Bill"

Fastbridge Score Recap – Fall 2021

Teaching to the Test – Is it What We Want for DPS?

Time for One High School?

Just a thought...

An Open Letter to Young Teachers Considering Quitting

DPS61 just won the lottery! Or did they?

Summer School Subterfuge

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