Louisiana creates coordinated care system for state’s youth

Louisiana is bringing together four child-serving agencies to form a Coordinated System of Care (CSoC) for youth with behavioral health needs, state officials announced last week. By combining efforts from various state agencies, the state hopes to save money, reduce duplicated efforts across agencies and increase the overall outcomes of the children they serve. InRead… Read more »

Crowdsourcing Legislation: Massachusetts Net Neutrality Bill and LexPop

The drafting of a new Massachusetts bill concerning net neutrality will be crowdsourced on the LexPop.org Website, according to a March 6, 2011 post on the LexPop blog, entitled “Co-Creation of Laws: It Starts Now”. According to the post, Massachusetts State Representative Tom Sannicandro has agreed to introduce the bill once it has been drafted.Read… Read more »

Handbook of Online Learning

The Handbook of Online Learning provides an overview of e-learning well grounded in academic theory and research.Some e-learning handbooks provide essentially a cookbook step-by-step guide to using a particular software package the teach little about education, whereas others are so full of pedagogy jargon that they are all but unintelligible. This work is at theRead… Read more »

Social Media Tips for Professionals

My thanks to Steve Dorfman, President of Driven-to-Excel, Inc. for an excellent interview on the subject of Social Media Tips for Professionals. For further insights from Steve on this topic, please see his slide deck which was presented at the Maryland Leadership Breakfast last May (see also my prior blog post) Any feedback on thisRead… Read more »

Set Your Compass On “Service”

I’ve told this story before, but it bears repeating. Many years ago, my good friend Phyllis Preston (currently at the Federal Aviation Administration) introduced me to her father, Ed Preston. I knew Ed had worked for the federal government for many years; so as I shook his hand, I asked, “Ed…where did you work?” HeRead… Read more »

Goodreads Review: The Art of Non-Conformity

The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau My rating: 3 of 5 stars Perhaps because I’m an avid reader of Chris Guillebeau’s blog, I didn’t get as much out of this book as I thought I would. It’s still a good book,Read… Read more »

Texas anti-bullying legislation: a state comparison

As anti-bullying legislation begins to be introduced in Austin, it is interesting to look at what other states have done in the area comparatively. Anti-bullying legislation is relatively widespread throughout the United States, with 45 states having passed measures. Hawaii, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota are the 5 states that do not haveRead… Read more »