As I’ve often said in previous posts, I have been so fortunate in my career to work in multiple areas in education. I’ve been a teacher,...

A friend of mine recently told me that a lot of what I say sounds good “in theory”. When I was a classroom teacher, I often read the...

I had just gotten home and was sitting eating dinner when my kids started complaining about their homework. My kids hate school. Every...

I work on a school calendar. My year goes from September to June (I think July and August are in there somewhere), therefore when I...

Education has so many buzzwords at any given time. We take these words, throw them into goals that we create, revamp our mission & vision...

I think that we oftentimes have expectations of students that we, as adults, would not do ourselves. Many times, we file this under the...

Teachers are busy. No doubt. There are a million things going on around them at any given time. While trying to live in the moment, they...

I’ve joked before in posts about living my entire life outside my comfort zone, but it’s true. It’s where I’ve found the most rewarding,...

A few weeks ago, my friend George Couros wrote a blog post called No Shortage of Road and reading it made me smile because I could really...

I always felt like one of my strengths as a teacher was that I always had high expectations for my students. I never lowered expectations...

I have taught and read the Innovator’s Mindset several times. I read it the first time for me, the second time for a book study for my...