Arts & School Culture: More Than Friday Night Lights
We hear that organizational culture and climate can transform the workplace, in both positive or negative ways.
The Funding Challenge
Effective arts education programs across the country have garnered a mix of public and private funds to enable their success.
Be the Good News
Most news stories today are rather grim. Whether you follow cable, broadcast or social media, the world seems out of sorts.
Communications for Cause
Strategic communications is at the heart of advocacy success —the art of communicating effectively with targeted audiences in order to move decision makers through the use of mainstream, social, new and paid media.
Getting Started
Beginnings are hard. In advocacy work (as in life), sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start.
Cultivating Influentials
Let’s assume that most of us are not the final arbiters in making big decisions that affect our professional lives– unless you’re Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos, and I suspect that even they need to take their shareholders into account. We all need others for input and agreement to advance our vision and ideas. This is especially true in the education arena.
Coalition Jenga
Humans are social creatures. Biology, psychology, and sociology tell us so. It would then follow that we need others to help us be our best selves and do our best work. No rocket science here.