January 16, 2023 At my last dentist appointment, the hygienist did a couple of novel things: she cleaned my teeth differently—with air and water—and she also checked my blood pressure.
January 9, 2023 During 31 years in the independent school world (35 if you add the student experience), visiting over 100 schools was one of my favorite activities. I always
January 5, 2023 Like most students over the past 100 or so years, I learned to write essays by rote repetition of the lifeless five-paragraph formula: introduction leading to a
December 21, 2022 If you learn quickly, you are smart. If you learn slowly you are … dumb. This is the message we send to students every day in schools
August 25, 2022 Sometimes you just need a good ol’ crisis to shake things up, to get things moving. It’s like the story of the frog you put in tepid
June 28. 2022 Time is money. Time is luxury or luxury is time. As babies, time is our own; we dictate the rules: We decide when we want to sleep,
April 22, 2022 “How do you know when you are learning?” This is a question important to answer, especially in its more nuanced form: “When you are learning, how does
Heather Clayton Staker is the co-author of the Amazon bestseller Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, as well as The Blended Workbook and the popular report How to Create