Creating a culture of numeracy
The following appears in the May/June edition of Principal magazine, all rights reserved: Schools that create positive perceptions about math instruction can boost performance, too. By Kim VerMerris...
View ArticleServing Those Who Serve
The following appears in the March/April edition of Principal Magazine, all rights reserved. -co-authored with Erica Natalicchio, school counselor Every year, half a million military children leave...
View ArticleLeading for racial equity
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not be neutral.” -Paulo Freire I think a lot about race. Not just because of recent events,...
View ArticleThank you, Mrs. Butler
A Three-Part Series (Part I) I was born in Virginia Beach the year that Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. My father was stationed there in the Navy. After he was discharged, we...
View ArticleIt took Faith
A Three-Part Series (Part II) In June of 1903, Black people living in the quiet community of Sykesville, Maryland petitioned the Board of Education to build a school. The Sykesville Colored School...
View ArticleThe Mayor of Sandy Point
A Three-Part Series (Part III) The small island nation of St. Christopher and Nevis (St. Kitts) sits 257 miles southeast of Puerto Rico in the leeward island chain of the West Indies. St. Kitts is...
View ArticleSocial justice education matters for all students
An edited version of this response was printed in the March 12th edition of the Capital Gazette. In James Braswell’s March 8th editorial, readers were given a partial history lesson to argue against...
View ArticleYou might be a resilient leader if…
The last few years have shaped school leaders in numerous and unexpected ways. We have been challenged to support our schools during unprecedented times. The skill set that defines a principal has...
View ArticleLeading for the early years
The following, co-written with Judith Walker, appears in the March/April 2022 edition of Principal magazine. Over the last 20 years, local, state, and federal officials have gradually come to recognize...
View ArticleReinvention
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…”...
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