Day 3 of #TheSecretSauce

Day 3 of #TheSecretSauce

  Welcome to Day 3 of the 12 Days of Secret Sauce! Today, we focus on Questioning Strategies and Techniques! Share your favorite strategies, resources, and ideas that make up…
Day 2 of #TheSecretSauce

Day 2 of #TheSecretSauce

  Welcome to Day 2 of the 12 Days of Secret Sauce! Today, we focus on Building Better Relationships with Students! Share your favorite strategies, resources, and ideas that make…
Day 1 of #TheSecretSauce

Day 1 of #TheSecretSauce

  Welcome to Day 1 of the 12 Days of Secret Sauce! Today, we focus on Making the Most of Your Time! Share your favorite strategies, resources, and ideas that…
Turnaround Times

Turnaround Times

  I’ve been thinking a lot about the decision making process. It helps that I’m in the middle of a book, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t…
Glimpses

Glimpses

  Our youngest learners had the start of their educational career interrupted by the events of the past twenty months. For students who were getting accustomed to kindergarten in March…
Change

Change

  Change can be incredibly difficult. It often challenges our beliefs. Or at least our beliefs about what we think we believe. Educators get a (sometimes deserved) reputation for not…
Winter Activities to Engage Students

Winter Activities to Engage Students

  At my school there are officially 17 school days between now and winter break. There are numerous activities happening during those days. We are limited in the number of…
Embrace the Criticism

Embrace the Criticism

  The reason that our teacher evaluation system doesn’t move teachers forward is that it usually borders on the generic. The give and take that should be happening between teacher…
Climbing Everest & Making Decisions

Climbing Everest & Making Decisions

  I was recently listening to the Decision Education podcast in which host Annie Duke interviewed Dr. Ken Kamler about his expeditions to climb Mt. Everest and extreme decision making.…
The Importance of Planning

The Importance of Planning

  I retired to the couch on Thanksgiving Night, with two leftover turkey sandwiches, and flipped through the channels before I settled on some back-to-back episodes of The Great Christmas…