The Art of the Start – Free Guide
As an educator I know first hand what an art it is to teach, and I know first hand how important and powerful it…
Category: Random Thoughts
Finding Your Metaphor For the Year
I want to take some time to talk about a recent free guide we created called Finding Your Metaphor for the Moment. When I…
Making Collaboration Transparent with Kanban Boards
Today, I want to explore the power of making collaborative learning transparent. What do I mean by that? Well for any of you who…
Creating Momentum From Mistakes
I am excited to talk about one of my favorite shifting schools resources. If you follow us on social media, you may have seen…
Fishing for Questions In our Classrooms
Today we’re going to focus on a resource we used in several of our trainings last year, we call it the “Let’s Go Fishing…
A Year in Review 15-16
I haven’t made much time to blog this semester…..OK….this year. But what a year it has been! I am currently writing this sitting at…
Doing The Work
If learning something new was easy everyone would do it. One of the reasons I love working with school districts and teachers over a…
The power of disconnecting
I sit here….on a piece of driftwood wondering where this log came from. For sure somewhere here off the Washington coast…I think. For two…
Google I/O: The machines are learning
I always look forward to Google’s I/O conference to see where the future of technology and innovation is headed and today, once again, didn’t…
We have a choice, They don’t
“We have a choice, They don’t†I’m stealing this quote directly from Ben Sheridan. Not sure if he’s the one that came up with…