The Mike Kirst Biography Project

11/16/2022

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09/09/2020

Mike Kirst Biography Project:
Tenth Installment: "Let's Get Personal” :
From Fraternity to Paternity Episode
You may know about Mike Kirst the education policy expert, But you need to see and hear this installment to fully understand and enjoy ‘the whole guy’:

This episode spotlights Mike’s early Dartmouth fraternity years, the start of his family, and his meeting and courting his wife Wendy. You’ll enjoy finding out more about Mike, ‘the whole guy.”

05/03/2020

Mike Kirst Biography Project

Welcomes Its 800th Subscriber

"Fascinating recapitulation of the origins of Mike’s career," writes former President of the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), Mike Usdan, about the seventh installment of "Conversations With and About Mike." Click here:https://bit.ly/3c0pJ59

As of the writing, in the spring of 2020, nearly all public and independent schools in this country are closed due to the coronavirus global calamity. How and when American schools will reopen, and who will make that decision, are widely debated, prompting us to recall Mike Kirst’s most widely read book—Who Controls Our Schools?: American Values in Conflict.

In this installment, we explore how early in his studies, Mike began to formulate this question and eventually answer it in a way that explains its complexities—which will help us to understand better the “Who’s in charge of American schools” question in this pandemic era.

As the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, federal, state, and local officials in the U.S. are not only arguing over what to do but also over who has the authority to do it. As of the writing, in the spring of 2020, nearly all public and independent schools…

03/10/2020

Mike Kirst Biography Project (Click mikekirstbiographyproject.com/)

The Mike Kirst Biography Project offers a timely virtual learning opportunity to hear how a leading Stanford academic and longest-serving President for California’s State Board of Education worked with Governor Brown and others for a half a century exemplifies the theme of AERA's online conference: “The Power and Possibilities for Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholder Collaborate.”

“If only the rest of us could begin by building on what Mike has already learned.”

Thomas Hatch,
Co-Director, National Center for Restructuring Education,
Schools & Teaching Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University.

“Conversations With and About Mike” is an innovative, engaging multi-media approach for telling the story about one American’s most important education reformers this past fifty years and continues to do so. Each installment makes Mike’s story come to life through carefully selected audio and video clips from influential policymakers, researchers, commentators, and educational leaders, including Mike himself. Click Mike Kirst Biography Project (Click mikekirstbiographyproject.com/) to learn more.

02/15/2020

An Invitation to Learn the Untold Story of an American School Reformer
The Mike Kirst Biography Project ©
"Perhaps more than any genre, nonfiction has been changed by the Internet, which turns biography or history book into a series of fascinating leads."
The New Yorker. September 2, 2019
I hope you enjoy this sixth installment of "Conversations With and About Mike." (Click here: https://mikekirstbiographyproject.com/sixth-installment-early-influences-part-1/)
I'm currently publishing regular installments of "Conversations With and About Mike": an innovative, engaging multi-media approach for telling the story about one American’s most important education reformers this past half-century. Each installment makes Mike’s story come to life through carefully selected audio and video clips from influential policymakers, researchers, commentators, and educational leaders, including Mike himself.
Thomas Hatch, Co-Director, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools & Teaching Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, writes this about the initial installments of “Conversations With and About Mike”: “I've really enjoyed the installments of Mike's story so far. Thanks for all your work on this. If only the rest of us could begin our work by building on what Mike has already learned.”

Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you would like to be included on the free subscription list for past and up-coming installments or learn more about the Mike Kirst Biography Project©: https://mikekirstbiographyproject.com
Onward,
Dick [email protected]
Dick Jung: Experienced leader and published author in public and independent school education for more than three decades: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-jung-a8010710/
Author: “Conversations With and About Mike” https://mikekirstbiographyproject.com

We hear first-hand in this installment about the earliest influences on Mike Kirst’s personal development and his more than half-century-long contributions to reforming American education. We'll first hear Mike talking about growing up in Reading, Pennsylvania and important personal insights about...

01/01/2020

The Untold Story of an American School Reformer
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Stanford University’s Professor Emeritus and longest-serving President of California’s State Board of Education, Mike Kirst, has perhaps done more to reform education policy in America than anyone in the past half-century.

"Conversations With and About Mike" employs an innovative multi-media approach that makes Mike’s personality, life, and accomplishments come alive through carefully selected audio and video clips from influential policymakers, researchers, commentators, and educational leaders, including Mike himself.
Thomas Hatch, Co-Director, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools & Teaching and Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, writes this about “Conversations With and About Mike”: “I've really enjoyed the installments of Mike's story so far. If only the rest of us could begin our work by building on what Mike has already learned.”
Dick Jung: Experienced leader and published author in public and independent school education for more than three decades: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-jung-a8010710