April 20, 2023 After a two-hour drive due north from the Hartford, CT, area, one exits the highway and winds through the hills to Saxton’s River, VT, the home of
April 19, 2023 Honestly, it’s tough to be a perfectionist writing about perfectionism. Wait, let me rephrase that: a recovering perfectionist writing about perfectionism. See, there it is—correcting myself to
April 18, 2023 A common complaint from teenagers especially is the cry “It’s not fair.” This could be referring to the length of lunchtime, world hunger, or ocean pollution. So
April 12, 2023 Agile classrooms differ from traditional classrooms by focusing on the ownership of learning. In an Agile classroom, students take responsibility for their learning by being given the
April 11, 2023 Our third year of operation at UP Academy was 2020-2021. If you are an educator you may have just gotten goosebumps thinking about that year. It was
April 10, 2023 How can the science of emotion empower us as school leaders? “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
April 5, 2023 Before Seth Godin’s famous marketing book, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, hit the market, we were first treated to the concept of the purple
April 3, 2023 What do we owe our kids? What do we, the people who consider ourselves adults today, owe our kids, all of our kids across the globe, in
March 30, 2023 As the government passes an extra $50 million injection to civics education, I wonder how we take advantage of this opportunity to ensure that every student actually
March 29, 2023 Building Character When the Covid-19 pandemic began, it was difficult to find an article about adolescence that didn’t mention the uptick in anxiety among young people, including