ABSTRACT
Why would a senior manager leave a comfortable post with the State Department of Education to enter the rough, real-world seas of school reform? This is what my colleagues queried me about when I became Director of The Florida State University School (FSUS) in 1997. My intuition told me that educational reform needed to be sown and nurtured at the school level to be successful. From this conviction, my vision compelled me to assume a new mantle of leadership, one where I hoped to lead major K-12 educational reform effectively, applying both comentoring and technology methods. This chapter relates my vision and initial reform forays into foggy crossings (see Figure 18.1).
