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Share this article Once I was working with an entire class of freshmen at the beginning of a school year, and one of the kids made so...

Share this article We recently had a full PD Day for teachers in our building and wanted to do something special to start off the d...

The focus of traditional education has mostly been on knowledge .  The focus has been on learning more information. But now we have mor...

Whether you're a teacher or a principal, or have another role as an educator, you probably have interactions on a daily basis that in...

Students who are in trouble almost always have a good reason for why they did what they did. Sometimes a student will admit fault and tak...

Earlier this summer our district leadership team spent a day of training together around the Clifton Strengths Assessment . It was really...

"How did you become a Chicago Cubs fan?" I asked the question to a Cubs fan I was visiting with recently. And I wasn't be...

How do you respond when students don't exhibit the behaviors you would like to see? Do you tell   students they need to change? Do yo...

Reflection is important for growth. But we have to be intentional about it. Our reflection is meaningless unless we do something with it....

Teaching is a challenging and exhausting profession. No one can understand what it's like until you've experienced it. You make...

Most of what is learned in the traditional approach to school is not adaptable learning. It is discrete learning. It's focused on a ...

I'm a big advocate of positive and productive change. If one thing is certain, it's change. There will be change, and we must ad...

In Future Driven , I wrote about how educators often want something that can be implemented quickly. We want something we can learn on T...

You have a choice when it comes to your attention. You give it to things you value, the things you find interesting or rewarding or helpf...