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...

So many times in education I think we gravitate toward one idea or teaching strategy and hold onto it like it’s the only way to do...

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I am absolutely hooked on the book The Body Keeps Score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD. It is...

Because of my upcoming book The Fire Within: Lessons from defeat that have ignited a passion for learning, I am asked a lot about...

The other day I was working with the administrative team at a school district near Chicago. We were dissecting the Hierarchy of Needs for...

My first try at a video blog.

I was in the grocery store the other day and I did something that I very rarely do, I picked up a magazine and read the cover. I’m...

This is a post in the Core Beliefs Series. To read the introductory post, click here. In other words, relationships are the most...

This is the second post in the series. You can find the first post on defining your core beliefs here. There has been a lot of discussion...

A while back, I created a post called What is the point in blogging  where I referenced the development of my core beliefs. Very quickly,...

I have been spending a great deal of my time talking about the mental health of educators and students. Maybe it’s because so much of my...

Since beginning my administrative position, I am responsible for more professional development days and have been attempting to provide...

I was Voxing with my good friend Zac Leonard and we were discussing one of their more recent topics on #EdTechAfterDark: teaching...

In preparing for a keynote, I had come across this video where teachers were asked to write a letter to themselves as a first-year...

Educators are nice people. We are taught to be positive and complementary and to give feedback that people can feel good about. What we...

So many times we talk about teacher engagement in the form of how engrossed they are in their professional learning. However, as I’ve...