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By Dr. Barry Ryan, September 15, 2025 - In my August 11th article titled 'Higher Education Leadership in Times of Crisis," we established that higher education leadership today cannot be solitary work and that effective crisis response requires both internal and external counsel. Now that you've assembled (at least thought through) your cast of trusted…
Every organization talks about transformation, but the leaders tasked with making it happen often face a lonely road. Change agents are frequently stuck trying to move big ideas forward with few, if any, allies—while also serving as the go-to crisis managers when things go wrong. It’s a role that demands vision, resilience, and relentless energy,…
Have you heard of Horst Wessel? He was a 22-year-old member of the Nazi paramilitary who was assassinated in 1930 by two Comminists. After his death, his name became a propaganda prop for the Nazi party. Lyrics that Wessel had written were turned into the Nazi anthem and called "The Horst Wessel Song." I thought…
Jamelle Bouie is one of the best, most interesting opinion writers for The New York Times. As a subscriber to that newspaper, I signed up for Bouie's newsletter, which is where these thoughts of his appeared. Jamelle Bouie writes: Virtually every person of note in American politics has, rightfully, condemned the horrific killing of Charlie…
Moving Beyond Binary Thinking about Language in the Classroom The concept of academic language is most widely attributed to Jim Cummins, who introduced the distinction between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) in the late 1970s and early 1980s (Cummins, 1979). BICS and CALP have been canon in ESL teacher education during the four decades that followed. Amidst a global pandemic and the death of a black man under the knee of a white police officer, academic language was challenged by a new generation of scholars in 2020. A committee dedicated to Anti-Black Racism and
This series explores a rarely discussed strength of direct instruction: its power to motivate students. While critics often paint explicit teaching as boring or uninspiring, the truth is that its structure, pace, and design motivate kids better than any other system. There is a certain romance in education about the idea of “Productive Struggle.” The notion goes…