Publications Issue All Student-Centered Learning DesignsEducator Talent PathwaysOutcomes That MatterAutonomy and Shared Power If Kids Don’t Want to Learn, You Probably Can’t Make ‘Em Meeting Notes • October 2001 Jack Frymier sums up a lifetime of experience in teaching: If students want to learn they will. If they don’t, you probably can’t make ’em. Motivation is individual. Education is failing in the relationship between teachers and students. Motivating students is a teachable skill: It just isn’t very often taught where teachers are trained. National Meeting on Teacher Ownership: Concept and Implications Meeting Notes • October 2001 Visitors look at a chartered school in Minnesota that has no employees, as well as no courses and no classes. Notes of the discussion at a national meeting at Hamline University in September 2001. The Case for Decentralized Management Meeting Notes • January 2001 Notes from a workshop on school-based management. Ron Hubbs, former chairman and CEO of a major insurance company, tries to explain to superintendents why it really is better to let people closer to the working-level make most of the decisions. There’s an astonishing response from one superintendent present. Professional Control of Practice: Physicians and Teachers Meeting Notes • March 2000 The medical director of a big multi-specialty hospital/medical group—in which the doctors are employees—describes how the professional and ‘business’ decisions are divided between physicians and managers. Ted Kolderie’s notes from a conversation with Dr. George Isham. Is the biggest challenge perhaps right in the classroom? Meeting Notes • November 1999 Jack Frymier suggests, in a conversation in St. Paul in 1999, perhaps where education is failing is in the relationship between teachers and students. This is where ‘improvement’ has to focus. Milwaukee As a Site for Education-Policy Change Meeting Notes • September 1999 Milwaukee has been the most interesting site for education policy in America, though not for the reason (vouchers) usually cited by the media. Howard Fuller and others-involved tell the story of the struggle since the 1970s. Albert Shanker: The Importance of Incentives and Rewards in Education Meeting Notes • May 1991 Albert Shanker said in 1991, before school choice and chartering, “People in other fields dislike change too. But they have to do it. We in education don’t. For us nothing is at stake.” The absence of an internal impetus for change leads us to prescribe “mandates.” But why not find what is blocking change inside K-12, and fix that? Mike Strembitsky and Site-Management in Edmonton Meeting Notes • December 1990 Over 25 years ago a ‘discontented teacher’ who became superintendent gave Edmonton, Canada what might be the most-decentralized arrangement in North America. But Edmonton is different than American cities, and Mike Strembitsky’s model does not transplant easily. Measuring Quality in Health Care and Education Meeting Notes • June 1986 In health care, as in education, there is pressure to increase revenue. In K-12 this results from a need to improve quality; in health care, from a need to expand access. Like clinics and hospitals, K-12 districts seeking additional revenue like to say “my cases are tougher.” Walt McClure describes techniques for measuring quality that show major differences in effectiveness among the ‘producers’. Professionals and Administrators: Two Models of Organization Meeting Notes • May 1983 Notes from an evening with a group of teachers, and the partners in a law firm and a medical clinic. The discussion about the relationship of professionals and administrators, in law and medicine, compared to the relationship of teachers and principal in a typical school, is fascinating especially with regards to authority and pay. Post navigation ← Previous 1 2 3 Next → Stay In Touch Get updates, new publications, fresh analysis, and event invitations in your inbox. First Name Last Name Email Address State What do you want to receive? Monthly newsletter (once per month) Blog posts by email (about two per month) See past newsletters in the archive.