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Amy Lore
Aug 27, 20242 min read
What Does a School Board Member Do?
A school board member has three jobs. First, we hire, fire, and manage the Superintendent. Second, we provide financial oversight, and...
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Amy Lore
Jun 21, 20232 min read
More than Free Will: A Review of Ian Rowe’s "Agency"
Rowe, Ian. 2022. Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover their Pathway...
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Amy Lore
Feb 7, 20232 min read
Board Seeking Boss: First Steps in a Superintendent Search
(This was submitted to the Terre Haute Tribune Star and the West Vigo Times February 7, 2023.) The hiring and management of the...
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Amy Lore
Nov 4, 20223 min read
Lean In without Burn Out: Three Strategies to Stay Sane
I am a wife, a mother, a public servant, a full-time employee, a volunteer, and a church member. I am supposed to eat healthy, exercise...
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Amy Lore
Oct 17, 20222 min read
Why is the Fourth Grade So Important?
I recently had a conversation with a friend who works in higher education. We talked about enrollment rates and programs that are...
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Amy Lore
Sep 13, 20222 min read
Prove It: The Value Proposition of Higher Education
(This article ran as a Letter to the Editor in the Terre Haute Tribune Star on September 21, 2022.) Following the July 22 article citing...
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Amy Lore
Sep 8, 20222 min read
Terre Haute Needs a Hero
Like many of the inner-city kids in Terre Haute, I attended Chauncey Rose Middle School. We often called it “Raunchy Toes,” an...
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Amy Lore
Jun 29, 20222 min read
Vigilance on the Road
Vigilance is everything. When you are traveling for work, mind in a million meetings and exhausted from driving and plane hopping, it’s...
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Amy Lore
Apr 8, 20222 min read
Six Degrees of LBJ: CTE Edition
When I want to know more about a federal program, I do two things. I follow the money, and I play my favorite game: Six Degrees of LBJ....
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Amy Lore
Mar 9, 20223 min read
A Cake No One Wanted: What I Learned about Professional Value by Messing Up
When I was in graduate school, I worked part time in the bakery of my local grocery store. I did two tours of duty there, decorating...
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Amy Lore
Feb 1, 20224 min read
The Strain of Regularity and Gridlock (no fun at home, but appealing in the halls of Congress)
Is Congress regular? It occassionally extrudes laws and leaves them in a pile for the bureaucracy or judiciary to implement, clean up, or...
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Amy Lore
Jan 24, 20224 min read
A Zoom with a View: Six Strategies for a Stand-Out Virtual Space
Like the countless hoards of thought workers living through the pandemic times, my daily schedule is peppered with virtual meetings. This...
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Amy Lore
Jan 14, 20224 min read
American Broadband
In a rural Indiana diner, I sat across the table from a seasoned, semi-retired government worker who posed the question, “what is left to...
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