By Robert J. Harris Aug 17, 2017 Every year, thousands of experienced educators from school districts across the country retire from their teaching and administrative positions and are replaced with less experienced and less costly new hires. The difference between the expenditure on the salaries of the more experienced educators exiting the system and their... Continue Reading →

By Robert J. Harris July 13, 2017 For those of you early and mid-career Human Resources professionals, there will come a time in the very near future when you will likely be interviewing androids along with humans for job openings in your organization.  Below are the five most important questions to ask droids in your... Continue Reading →

By Robert J. Harris Jun 17, 2017 Every year, thousands of experienced educators from school districts across the country retire from their teaching and administrative positions and are replaced with less experienced and less costly new hires. The difference between the expenditure on the salaries of the more experienced educators exiting the system and their […]

By Robert J. Harris Jun 22, 2017 Beginning in the month of June, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season will be upon us. Accordingly, weather forecasters along the U.S east coast will be sharing their predictions about each storm’s magnitude, its tracking, and its duration. Based on these predictions, property owners in the storm’s direct path... Continue Reading →

By Robert J. Harris June 15, 2017 Most educator compensation systems provide teachers with incentives to continue their learning by granting them pay increases for graduate credit earned for additional coursework. In theory, this model is a win-win: teachers make more money and school districts have more well-trained teachers. In most cases educators leverage this... Continue Reading →

By Robert J. Harris June 9, 2017 As this school year comes to a close, school leaders from across the U.S. will have the opportunity to demonstrate their edudexterity. By definition edudexterity is a school leader’s ability to effectively lead a school organization of today while simultaneously implementing a strategy of exploration for the schools of... Continue Reading →

June 6, 2017 As an engagement gift from some of our friends, my fiancée and I received tickets to the Red Sox home opener against the Yankees. We’re both hard-core Red Sox fans. As luck would have it, she wasn’t feeling well enough to attend, so we decided to rent a robot to go in... Continue Reading →

By Robert J. Harris Jun 2, 2017 I have long-advocated for the deconstruction and redefinition of the roles of teacher. By critically evaluating the functions teachers perform, school leaders might find new ways to re-purpose valuable resources to improve the quality of the learning experience for both the students and the adults who attend and... Continue Reading →

By Robert J. Harris May 30, 2017 The other day, I saw a post on LinkedIn that happened to catch my eye. The post contained six black and white photos of garages. However, these were no ordinary garages, they were the garages where the founders of Apple, Google, Amazon, Harley-Davidson, Disney and Mattel started their... Continue Reading →

By Robert J. Harris May 25, 2017 While some wellness advocates encourage employees to seek work/life balance, others maintain that for an individual to fully actualize in both work and life, they should strive for work/life integration (the concept of work/life integration places emphasis on the totality of a person’s experiences rather than as the... Continue Reading →