Currently

last updated 12.09.24

Reading:

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (2024)

The American School: From the Puritans to Present (2018) by Spring

Listening to Portrait in Jazz by Bill Evans Trio (Riverside, 1960)

Walking about 6-10 miles a day. 

Playing tennis. 

Working on professional projects in Colorado, DC, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Texas.

Nurturing a coalition of strategic partners focused on rural school improvement including state policy makers and administrators, university and research partners, funders, and nonprofit organizations. 

Advising superintendents in three rural Colorado school districts on strategic comprehensive system-wide turnaround initiatives.

Developing a learning organization serving small and remote rural school district superintendents. 

Coaching the executive team of a national literacy nonprofit to implement strategic plan.

Leading a full-day retreat for a very cool public charter network in Washington, DC. 

Guiding an exceptional leadership team in a public charter school in Washington, DC to improve summer programming.

Teaching EDIS 7035 (Professional Knowledge in Education Systems) and  EDIS 7825 (Family and Community Engagement in Schools) at University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development.

Leading the Booker Prize Book Club at Peoples Book in Takoma

Listening to The Archers