Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Slide – How many decisions did you make yesterday that reinforced the status quo?

Scott McLeod

Dear school leader,

Please complete the following for the past day/week/month/year (choose one):

Did you make enough decisions in Category B? Didn’t think so. Now what are you going to do about it?

Yours truly,

The students

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