Bide Your Time

Bide Your Time

  It’s hard to keep your head in the clouds when the dark sky rolls in. It’s easier to duck and hide until the storm passes through. While it seems…
Keep Making Mistakes

Keep Making Mistakes

  There’s a big difference between making a mistake versus being careless. Making mistakes means you are putting forth your best effort. Being careless means you are not putting forth…
Generosity as Leadership

Generosity as Leadership

  At the beginning of the year, I was hoping for a complete return to somewhat normal practices. After nearly two months, I’ve found that we may never get there.…
Everyday Talk

Everyday Talk

  If you try to engage in conversations every day, hopefully you’ll learn something important. Maybe it’s a nugget of information that you didn’t know this morning. Maybe it’s something…
Actual Writing

Actual Writing

  The goal of any good writing instruction should be actual writing. I watched a strong lesson on figurative language last week. Students were able to easily identify several examples…
Luck

Luck

  Sometimes you can wait on luck. And sometimes, you can create your own luck. And if you create it often enough, then you’ll never need to wait on it…
Students Who Love to Talk!

Students Who Love to Talk!

  Do you have that student who loves to talk? It doesn’t matter when or where, but it constantly seems like the student has something to share. It may or…
Intent Versus Impact

Intent Versus Impact

  It’s easy to have an intended meaning. Or sometimes an unintended meaning. It’s much more difficult to have a consequential impact. Just remember that impact is always greater than…
Conventional Wisdom

Conventional Wisdom

  I’m reading the book Big Data Baseball, about the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates and how they used the influx of data and specific information to change their fortune as a…
A Moment

A Moment

  A month into the school year, and it feels like we are operating at break neck pace. It only seems that way because we are. Everything has taken on…