I don’t have 30 years of experience in public schools. I’ve never been a principal and I’ve never ran a school. But I have a few ideas that, I think, make some sense. There are others like me – young and full of passion with bright ideas designed to actually improve teaching and learning...

Have you ever worked in an environment where you didn't know your job description, or where your job description always constantly changed because you kept getting new responsibilities added to it? How about a place where you were always blamed for things that went wrong, even after the chain...

Yesterday morning, one of the first things that I did was I turned over to my wife who was laying next to me and I told her happy birthday. She smiled back at me and after that, I went to my cell phone and texted one of my good friends to see if he was still going to the jewelry store and...

Yesterday, as I often do on Saturday mornings, I woke up and went to the barbershop. Yet yesterday was a bit different than usual. Growing up, my dad took me to Andre’s Barbershop located on Federal Street in Camden, NJ. I have been going there my entire life. Me personally, I am an animal...

Remember a few years ago when Whitney Houston was in the heights of her “crack-capades” with Bobby Brown and she was interviewed by Wendy Williams and she said the infamous line to Wendy, “crack is wack… I don’t do crack!,” do you all remember that? Well, Charlie Sheen has had...

I recognize that when I have children of my own, it will be up to me and my wife to be the primary teachers/advisors/mentors of our children. There will be days where we become doctors, judges, construction workers and artists because the role of a parent is one that encompasses multiple...