The Turning Point (Again?) for Seattle Schools
Deja vu all over again (with apologies to Yogi Berra). It's sometimes good to have been tracking this district for a long time. Basically, it's about institutional memory and its usefulness. Sometimes, it is frustrating, exhausting and frightening. All at once. I am speaking of the Board retreat going on today in reference to institutional memory. I could have sworn that if I shut my eyes, then quickly opened them, I would see the ghosts of staff past sitting around that table. Maria Goodloe-Johnson (that ghost comment is not in reference to her passing), Susan Enfield, Carla Santorno, even Joe Olchefske. Because those are the people I thought might have been channeling through staff today. I often wish there was a new person in the audience, a casual observer who I could question and ask, "What did that sound like to you?"