With Universal Basic Income, what might be possible for public schools?

This week, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey pledged $1 billion for the purpose of addressing immediate coronavirus needs and then, longer term, supporting initiatives related to girls’ health and education and universal basic income (UBI). He’s tracking the donations on this public Google spreadsheet, which, at the time of this writing, 67 people are …

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Three Pillars for Coaching Educators

Superintendents, school leaders, instructional coaches, and experienced teachers must support and develop talent to improve student experiences and outcomes. One avenue for addressing this need is to establish coaching partnerships. How might one create conditions for these learning partners to engage in productive and fertile processes that generate their own momentum? What follows are three …

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Fighting Fire With Arson: A Response to Yale Professor Robert J. Schiller’s misguided but not unexpected piece on the housing bubble, titled “Infectious Exuberance” and appearing in the July/August 2008 Atlantic.

Shiller believes our two recent “epidemics of financial optimism” (the dot-com and real estate bubbles) could be followed by a more disastrous financial epidemic if “irrational pessimism and mistrust” manage to spread from the lips and fingertips of sourpuss chicken-little financial pundits to the wider population. According to the author this third epidemic is easily …

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