What if public schools weren’t just evaluated—but trusted?
That’s the goal of 8 Weeks to Trust: a course for school leaders, families & communities to rebuild trust through shared language, honest dialogue & real stories.

www.brave-ed.com/8-weeks-trust

Texas is releasing A-F labels for schools and lots of folks have questions and should. For all of you in Texas (and this has application elsewhere as well) I hope this can serve as a resource for fighting the good fight. edcontrarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/q-re...

My latest blog: Getting accountability right and retaking public education. Please post and repost at will.
edcontrarian.blogspot.com/2025/03/gett...

NAEP scores are out. Here's what we should all take from them, and it probably isn't what most people think. edcontrarian.blogspot.com/2025/01/once....

A thought: if public schooling was the most trusted institution in America, we’d be having a very different national dialogue about it. For thirty+ years some folks have been sowing distrust just to get to this point. This is the dialogue they wanted. Don’t let them have it.

For anyone new to our work, my last book say it all. The Accountability Mindset is available here. www.amazon.com/Accountabili...

I've been @bravEdjt over on another platform for a long time, but it stopped being useful. If you followed bravEd there, care about the future of public education, or want to know how to build trust in our schools, please follow me here.