Education Rebel @ Work

What's in a First Name

Great piece earlier this month from Jodi Glickman in the Harvard Business Review on how we give up power when we choose NOT to address each other by first name. I immediately thought of teachers and other adults and how they speak to each other in schools. I think she has a point.

In one of the districts I work with, the superintendent has set a “first-name only” policy among her staff. Weird that it has to be such a policy, but right on for recognizing and addressing a problem.