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What’s your compelling reason?
Although this commercial is a few years old, and it is a scotch commercial, it is a beautiful story. Seriously, take the time to watch it. If you watched this, you might be crying. Over a scotch...
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Investing in the Future
In the last six weeks, I have had the privilege of speaking at 30 different events. I have been humbled by a number of amazing educators I have had the opportunity to connect with and learn from over...
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3 Crucial Elements of Being a Change Agent
As I have voraciously read books on “change”, and have had many conversations on the topic, these are three big takeaways that I always try to focus on. Show and model change in yourself. It is easy...
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Two Things That All Parents Want for Their Children
I have been using the above to really help my focus in workshops with not only parents but educators, to get them on the same page. You often hear many educators say that parents want the same...
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Restart Vs. Repeat
Working with about 500 educators today, in a full-day workshop, a high school student who was there to help out with the day, asked if he could sit in and listen. I offered the invitation to all of...
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Your Best “Classroom Management” Strategy
Eric Sheninger tweeted this out recently: Kids aren’t distracted because of devices. They are distracted because of the task, lack of relevance, and no real accountability. — Eric Sheninger...
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Helping Someone Get Better or Showing Them You Are Better?
I often share a story about a situation that could have gone pretty bad, but because of the leadership of one student, it turned around. Here is the story below: From this experience, I learned the...
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Relationships, Risk-Taking, and Innovation
I was pleased to read this quote from a recent article, “Google spent years studying effective teams — and one trait stood out,” which stated what was most important to the success of teams: What...
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Purpose-Driven Learning
Seeing tweets, over and over again, regarding the villainization of “worksheets,” (I know I have been guilty of this as well) I tweeted the following: Teachers… If you give a worksheet in your class,...
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5 Points To Get Across in a Teaching Interview
I applied for a job at a historical park when I was in university, and I was excited about the opportunity to be a tour guide and share some of the history with visitors. Eager to get the opportunity,...
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The Myth of the “Laggard”
A question I often get in workshops is how to deal with “laggards” or “resisters.” The first thing I wonder when I hear regarding this question is, do the people they are talking about seeing...
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Keep Your Head Up and Keep Creating
You know that session you led at that conference recently with the 99% positive reviews? Which review do you remember the most? The 99 that were awesome or the one that was a bit mean? I was having...
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We All Need a Champion
My dear friend, Jimmy Casas, wrote a fantastic book titled, “Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.“, meant for leading schools, not school leadership only. I haven’t read the book for...
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3 Reminders For the End of the School Year
The end of the year can be a stressful time for educators, both work wise and emotionally. As a principal and teacher, there was always this “I forgot to pack something for my trip” anxiety that I had...
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Building Ideas Together
I loved this post by Becky Schnekser, titled, “Instead of thinking of ways it won’t work — try thinking of ways it could.” This part stuck out to me: So here’s my challenge to you. The next idea thrown...
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3 Ways We Can Learn from Past Success
The notion of “embracing failure” has become one that has become very popular in education over the last few years. To me, the semantics matter. “Embracing” is not the right term and does say...
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Arguing to Find the Middle
I saw the title for this post, “How to Win Every Argument” and first thought, “This article could be great for the work that I do, often trying to convince people to do something different than they...
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I have been spending a lot of time thinking about arguing and how we challenge one another. Challenging ideas is essential, especially in the context of education, but how we challenge others is as...
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3 Reminders for the Beginning of the School Year
It is such a pleasure to work with schools at the beginning of the year. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to hopefully push thinking on what is possible for the upcoming school year, while...
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3 Important Factors in Asking Better Questions
It seems like every day I’m blessed to work with teachers and administrators who are doing incredible things with and for students and are providing opportunities that I could not dream of when I went...
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