Growing your PLN is one of the most powerful things you can do for your own professional learning. Period. But, I find that people don’t...

When I taught I used to joke about how I wished I would have kept a book all along about putting together words that I never thought I’d...

We are beginning to recognize the value of balance in education. Finally, people are starting to understand that handing yourself over...

I often get asked how I re-engaged back into loving education. And I do love it. Like everyone, I have difficult weeks. Loving what you...

Recently, one of my favorite teachers in the high school approached me about students starting student managed social media accounts for...

Yes, I know I had the phone the wrong way. 🙂

Tomorrow one of my favorite students ever leaves for the Air Force. He has spent the last couple of summers working for our department....

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 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,...

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...

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

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...