Sir Don Allen (MN)

Doctor of Urban Education and Leadership (May 2026) St. Paul, MN. Hemophila A Advocate; Charter School Advocate. Creator of: Theory Of Corners/LEAD Framework

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

Do better. @NAACP https://t.co/RvpjBO47xL

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

@Wikitube911 @profpennpodcast Hilarious!

[Parys @ParysSmith_]

Two Stars ⭐️
#Juneteenth

[Mark Gilson 🌱 @markwgilson]

School Board: Robbinsdale (@ISD281)
When: June 2026
Topic: Bond Referendum

Board member Helen Bassett assumes a disproportionate number of white people responded to the survey, implying that would discredit the survey results?🤦‍♂️

The survey showed a dramatic 27-point drop in resident satisfaction with school facilities in just six months.

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

See you next Saturday! @RevTChristopher

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

Coming soon; Open letter to MPS.

[News Talk 830 WCCO @wccoradio]

Dave Osmek, former Senate president and GOP delegate, says he's leaving the Republican Party following a controversial state convention: "I cannot be part of this any longer," said Osmek, pointing to voting issues, and the Chauvin moment of silence.

https://t.co/AB0tp11hpa

[Jerry Macken @jerrymacken]

Rosemount was cost a school record, All-State honors, and chance at a State Championship due to a bad call. The Edina runner tries to throw a shoulder at a runner that had passed them, joust his baton, and then flops out of bounds when losing his balance. Rosemount was charged with “impeding the runner” and was DQ’d. Edina was awarded a rerun. The Rosemount coach was told the call cannot be appealed. How is this fair or just? When you have video at the State Meet, why is it not used for making decisions that have this big of impact?

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

@usbank some lazy bankers at the Roseville branch.

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

I am critiquing MTSS from a systems perspective, one important point is that MTSS was originally designed as a student-support framework, not as a comprehensive organizational change model. That distinction is often why I argue that frameworks such as Adaptive Systems Alignment (ASA) are needed: they focus on changing the adult systems, leadership structures, operational processes, and organizational conditions that produce student outcomes, rather than primarily organizing interventions around students. MTSS asks, "What support does the student need?" ASA asks, "What system conditions created the need in the first place?"

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

MTSS asks, "What support does the student need?" ASA asks, "What system conditions created the need in the first place?" #nuancedleadership

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

If highly functional systems don’t evolve, we get what we get today.

During the research and writing of my dissertation, I uncovered and designed several new learning organization frameworks based on the demand from the data I sorted through. My Adaptive Systems Alignment, or ASA (Allen, 2025), is a next-generation school improvement framework that moves beyond intervention-driven models to align leadership, operations, instruction, behavior, family engagement, adaptive innovation, and communication into one coherent system. While MTSS focuses primarily on identifying and supporting student needs through tiered interventions, ASA addresses the organizational conditions that create those needs. Schools do not improve through more interventions alone; they improve when every system works together. ASA shifts the focus from managing deficits to building adaptive, high-performing schools. ©️2025

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

@roblevine82 Testing is so 1954.

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

My latest in the Minneapolis Times.

From the article:
“What has happened? The Twin Cities educational complex got trapped. The problem is not with children’s intellectual ability, creativity, or culture in Minneapolis and St. Paul. No, the real problem lies in the fact that many educational systems have not changed their industrial-era approach to schools while claiming to prepare the younger generation for a drastically different future. Schools still focus on compliance, attendance, and superficial graduation rates. How many students are actually ready for university, a professional career, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and independent thinking?”

https://t.co/6LGMaF0xFy

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

Cologne Academy earns association's 'Innovation' award https://t.co/zv2unnSOl0 via @hometownsource

[TheDivineMissM 🇺🇸🇸🇪🇧🇷 @LibertyMarieEP]

It's never ending. https://t.co/mIy8iYt4bp

[Sir Don Allen (MN) @DonAllen02]

Machiavelli (1532) described politics as it actually operated: fear, loyalty, image, force, manipulation, and public perception.

[WASP Society aka Bob Johnson @crazycorpsman22]

The required nonprofit grift. Kickbacks are 10% or more depending on the grant. @realMikeLindell @phillipcparrish
https://t.co/DKUK75ELzz

[WASP Society aka Bob Johnson @crazycorpsman22]

https://t.co/inmvy1HVis

[WASP Society aka Bob Johnson @crazycorpsman22]

The ngos and the u of m set up the models to control the advising of governance and decision making of a shadow government in conjunction with global governance models that were shipped to the un through harlan cleveland. His third try at world order?
https://t.co/IuwY10CYsS