Category: Wisdom
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The opening question at our Schott Foundation governing board meeting stopped me in my tracks. It didn’t come from a superintendent or a consultant. It came from Kyle Serrette, a national education strategist with the NEA and someone who’s spent decades pushing for equity-centered systems change. He asked: “What have you failed at?” Let that…
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They show up during floods. They show up during wildfires. And if you’re really lucky, they show up when you’re holding a cardboard sign asking not to be tear-gassed. Yes, we’re talking about the National Guard—Trump’s most predictable tantrum accessory since Sharpie edits on hurricane maps. The National Guard is once again making headlines by…
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In the 1987 sci-fi thriller Predator, a group of elite soldiers enters the jungle expecting a standard mission. What they encounter instead is a hyper-advanced alien killer—a being with cloaking technology, thermal vision, and a twisted code of warfare. The Predator doesn’t fight head-on. It tracks. It records. It studies. It waits. Then it strikes—one target…
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There’s an old proverb: “There is no honor among thieves.” I believe it is meant to warn that alliances built on self-interest rarely survive when power, money, or ego is at stake. In public policy, we’ve seen this play out time and again—especially in spaces where opportunism, not principle, is the glue holding coalitions together. When…
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Let’s be honest about something uncomfortable. Racism is still on fire in America. On June 1, 2025, Boulder, Colorado became the latest site of a horrific act of violence in America. At 1:26 p.m., a group of peaceful marchers—many elderly—were walking through the Pearl Street Mall in their regular weekly gathering. In broad daylight, a…
Cloaking Inequity 