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It stands to reason that equality is not a goal of the educational systems within this country. By their defined purposes that Kozol and Weber postulate, educational systems are designed to ensure that inequality is the served purpose. However, Thomas… Continue Reading →
It doesn’t take a lifetime of intense research to see the inequalities in the public school systems that stem from socioeconomic circumstances. I took a drive one day and just looked around Santa Fe. First, I drove through the East… Continue Reading →
White America isn’t about ethnicity or race or economics. It’s about power. White America doesn’t gangs or guns or drugs. I believe, wholeheartedly, that White America fears people of repressed circumstances learning enough to become individually or collectively strong. Through… Continue Reading →
Without any doubt, one of the biggest frustrations in life for me is watching people fill roles for which they aren’t qualified. Especially if those roles have a leadership component, I watch the unqualified struggle with the requirements of the… Continue Reading →
For me, leadership is a personal goal that I hope to one day reach. I don’t mean that one day I want to be the CEO of some company or another; I mean that I want to affect someone’s life… Continue Reading →
Empowering approaches to leadership challenge the leader to become a teacher who teaches followers how to lead both themselves and others. Approaches such as those found in, Creating leaderful organizations: How to bring out leadership in everyone, by J. Raelin stipulates that… Continue Reading →
Leadership requires community: there is no leader without a follower and there is no leader without a sense of service towards that follower, “Creative leaders accept as a law of human nature that people feel a commitment to a decision… Continue Reading →
The best definition of power I’ve ever come across is that power is a knowing and active participation in change. Many times, a person who ends up addicted to a substance really had no clue what he or she was… Continue Reading →
When I was little, I used to sit on the floor and watch my Grandma sew. She’d guide the fabric with expert skill until pieces of cloth became dresses that would rival those hanging in fancy stores. But, what was… Continue Reading →
I’ve always liked Pygmalion, the legendary sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory so realistic; he fell in love with her. He secretly wished and believed that she was real until one day, Cupid kissed his statue and brought… Continue Reading →
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