With AI all the rage in April 2023, educators are pretty quickly creating resourcesarticles, blog posts, podcasts even books! I see an important connection between engaging lesson plans, artificial

Im a big fan of just right. Goldilocks started it, and Im continuing it. After two separate conversationsone with my Leadership Coach Aimee Giles and another with the EduAwesome human John EickI

You know that feeling when you have a really good lesson? You got the plan, students are in the zone, and the thing they create is just awesome! For me, those lessons are a lot like cooking scallops.

When you put two things together, magic can happen. Obvious examples like chocolate and peanut butter might come to mind. Similarly, teachers can make two objectives and combine them into a tasty less

Device-free time can be magical in a classroom (and at home). Lots of learning happens without devices. Lots. But what does a school like when you cant imagine it without devices? Without the abilit

I am not impressive to my fourth grader, nor are most (all?) of the things I share with her. But there are some extraordinary, dare I say magical, things that exist in the world that did not exist wh

As my phone auto-played a song this morning, I was vividly reminded about the hour we spent in 2002 at Orange Whip Recording Studio with the band Bad Astronaut trying to find the one perfect lyric. Th

As school leaders, how do we have a high impact on our schools culture without adding another thing to teachers plates? Wheres that sweet spot where you get high impact with low effort? My answer t

Ive learned so much this year in my leadership coaching with Aimee Giles. Weve talked a lot about my valuesimagine the islands from the movie Inside Out thats what weve created, and what we use

What is good teaching? Its complex. Its not easily replicable. Lets listen to an MxPx song, and hear why that song accomplishes its goal, but why my songs dont.