My phone rang. My cell. I was in the program office at school. It was late September 2009. I was busy. Program changes had just finished. I was teaching 3 classes, but each one different. Algebra. Geometry. Combinatorics. There was…

Over the years, I’ve worked with scores of principals and assistant principals who have had remarkably different management styles. While I firmly believe that teachers are overmanaged even in many positive working environments, I’ll be the first to admit that…