As I write this, it is my birthday (April 12), and I was thinking about something that I heard while working out this morning. I thought a
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As I sit in my office, thinking about my blog post for the week, I’m listening to an album on my record player. It is probably not an artist you
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My dad passed away eight years ago this past week. I think about him all of the time, and although it is tough to think he never met my kids,
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I received this question from a new principal: “What are your thoughts on asking the right questions of middle school kids in what they want in their next principal?
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Some things I have been thinking about and questions I have been pondering. 1. When we talk about “learning” are we talking about the ability to do well in
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“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” Mother Teresa
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I was recently asked the following question about professional learning being delivered through online spaces: Do you think that educators are becoming so comfortable with online professional learning that
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When I discuss the characteristics of the #InnovatorsMindset, the first trait shared is that of “empathy” because it leads to all of the other ideas. Looking at the image below,
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Think of a time you received a compliment from a stranger, an acquaintance, or someone you know well. What was your reaction, and how long did it last? Did
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In 2018, I wrote a post titled “10 Core Values for Education” and came up with the following “10 Values” remixed from the values from Zappos. Here are the “values”
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