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Published on April 23, 2020, LinkedIn As educators, parents, and students have scrambled over the past couple of months to figure out how to move school online quickly and at
In usually frosty Siberia, the temperature hit 118° last week. In British Columbia and across the northwest U.S., the “heat dome” broke records by orders of magnitude. If we haven’t
Once again, the world is leaving schools behind. A recent Microsoft study revealed an astonishing trend across 30 countries: Over 40% of the 30,000 people surveyed said they were thinking
If there is any good news that has come from the last 16 months of disruption in schools it may be that a small but not insignificant segment of students
It happened to me in 2002, that moment when I knew my role as a teacher had to start moving away from a content expert to a connector. It was,
Being called “educated” is an interesting label, isn’t it? It’s so absolute, with nary a whiff of nuance. Dive into the definition and you find the word struggles to go
From the “Sometimes You Read Something That Makes You Want to Scream ‘THIS!’ Department” I give you Sean Michael Morris: “This is the right of agency. It does not give
Let’s get right to the point: Everything you do in your school tells a story. Every curricular decision, every hire, every budget line item, every communication, every policy — every
New rule: Whenever we talk about learning, we should distinguish between learning in the real world and learning IN SCHOOL. For example, the work of John Hattie is cited daily
When you think about a “successful” student or a “successful” school, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Might it be high test scores? Acceptances to prestigious universities? A