If You’re a Teacher Thinking About Moving, There’s 8 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself (and Your Heart) Before Making the Decision

5 Ways To Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is In Building Supportive Relationships with Your Students

Relationships, relationships, relationships! We know that having positive, trusting relationships in their lives this is the number one indicator of student success... Then why don’t we double down on relationships? We push the curriculum. Many of us are getting students ready for the first assessment, then the next assessment, and then we change our instruction…

October is National Principals Month – 9 X 5 Unique Ways to Celebrate Your Principal

In my experience, I believe the hardest job in education is the principalship. For those of you in education, you know I am right. Principals are in the trenches with staff and students, consistently communicating with the community and parents, and they are the filter of all situations. The decisions principals must make are always…

How the Pandemic Has Taught Us to Get Back to Basics and Embrace the Concept of Total Wellness

24 Future Forward Ideas: The Final Installment in Our 4-Part Series Exploring Practical Strategies for Better Teaching Based on What We Are Learning in the Pandemic. Part 4 of 4: What We Know to Be True! At this point, we all recognize that the pandemic brought to the forefront a lot of background issues that…

Powerful Educational Technology Solutions That Will Outlive the Pandemic

24 Future Forward Ideas: Part 3 in a 4-Part Series Exploring Practical Strategies for Better Teaching Based on What We Are Learning in the Pandemic Part 3: The Power of Being Flexibly-Virtual When educational leaders transitioned to virtual offsite learning last year, some of the implications of what it meant to hold class remotely…

How The Challenges Created By COVID Will Be Good For The Future Of Education

24 Future Forward Ideas: Part 2 in a 4-Part Series Exploring Practical Strategies for Better Teaching Based on What We Learned in 2020-21 Part 2: Reasons to Be Positive About the Future... In part one of this series, we started looking at what it might mean to return to “normal” after a pretty strange and scary…

Before We Rush to Get Back to Normal, Let’s Think About Which Part of Normal is Actually Worth Getting Back To

24 Future Forward Ideas: A 4-Part Series Exploring Practical Strategies for Better Teaching Based on What We Learned in 2020-21 Part 1: Before We Rush to Get Back to Normal... “In a rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth getting back to.” -Author and life…

Ever Wonder What Your Teacher Benefits Are Really Worth?

Your Complete Guide to Understanding What Your Healthcare Coverage, Pension and Other Teacher Benefits are Worth in Real Dollars. Even if you’re not a teacher or planning to be one, it’s not likely you missed the big national debate about teacher compensation over the years. Public opinion on education spending is complicated. And no wonder!…

Top 6 Reasons Why 2020-21 Was the Worst School Year Ever… and Why Next Year Will Be Better

Never has a school year given us so much to gripe about… and never has summer break brought such a feeling of sweet relief. In the past week since school closed, it’s been nothing but sunshine and margaritas as I slip into the bliss of morning hikes, beach days and barbecues till late August. At…

Top 10 Pieces of Advice I Wish I Got As a Graduating Senior

Giving a graduation speech or any speech can be stressful. In fact, it’s the number one fear out there! A recent National Institute for Mental Health survey showed a full 75% of people said it’s the thing they dread the most. Public speaking ranked even higher than death in some surveys! I may not be…

If You’re a Teacher Thinking About Moving, There are 8 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself (and Your Heart) Before Making the Decision

Here I sit in the hospital thinking about how many times I have been here. Staff at the hospital know me from frequent trips here over the past twenty years. My dad turned 90 this past week and I can’t thank the Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Montana enough as I believe he has been…

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5 Ways To Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is In Building Supportive Relationships with Your Students

October is National Principals Month – 9 X 5 Unique Ways to Celebrate Your Principal

How the Pandemic Has Taught Us to Get Back to Basics and Embrace the Concept of Total Wellness

Powerful Educational Technology Solutions That Will Outlive the Pandemic

How The Challenges Created By COVID Will Be Good For The Future Of Education

Before We Rush to Get Back to Normal, Let’s Think About Which Part of Normal is Actually Worth Getting Back To

Ever Wonder What Your Teacher Benefits Are Really Worth?

Top 6 Reasons Why 2020-21 Was the Worst School Year Ever… and Why Next Year Will Be Better

Top 10 Pieces of Advice I Wish I Got As a Graduating Senior

If You’re a Teacher Thinking About Moving, There are 8 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself (and Your Heart) Before Making the Decision

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