I have been paying special attention lately to what I need to do to be a good leader and in order to do that, I need to reflect on the...

I have a 1-hour commute each day to work. I despise it more than words can describe. It is roughly an additional 10 hours out of my week...

I’ve been the Director of Innovation and Technology for two full years in my district and I’m a few months into my third. When I began my...

I’ve been watching my boys play football since they were eight years old. Actually, before that, if you include flag football. And in all...

I had flown down to St. Louis over the weekend for the #DigCitSummit and my layover in Chicago was met with a pleasant surprise. There...

The idea of divergence is occasionally envisioned as two paths diverging in the wood, perhaps thanks to our friend Robert Frost. However,...

Most of us know, in our heads, how social media can skew day to day life. We talk about this in relation to how our kids need to...

I am a Director of Innovation and Technology. That is my role title. For people who don’t know me in my “every day” position, that...

When I was a teacher, I did my best to ignore the talk of students in the grades below my own. At the beginning of the year, I would be...

In my district, the district administrators (with the exception of the superintendent and the business administrator) are all housed in...

Quite a few people I know focus heavily on data and research. They’re all about if things have been tested out and if they can be...

As I’m working on the mindset chapter for my upcoming book, it has been bouncing around my brain how I can incorporate growth mindset and...

I watched a video on Facebook yesterday about The Mengele Twins – a woman who was kept with her twin sister as a science experiment...

One of the topics that I speak about in my keynotes most often is teacher engagement. I feel that the level of engagement and efficacy we...

I am on Twitter because my friends are there. The ones who push my thinking and who I want to see what they are doing professionally...

I believe that it is human nature to want to trust people, but it’s definitely a feeling that when broken, takes a great deal of time to...

I was sitting in the car on my way to a doctor’s appointment this morning desperate, mentally willing my blood pressure to lower. I had a...

A few months ago, I wrote a piece called The Rules of Teacher Engagement which discussed teacher engagement and what it means when...

The world is finally beginning to wake up to the issues of mental illness and the far-reaching effects that it has on everyone’s life....

I truly believe that part of being an advocate for kids is believing that all of them, no matter what, possess redeeming qualities. I...