It’s #ROGUEtober
It's #ROGUEtober! That means I've got ten brand new copies of ROGUE Leader: Make the Rules, Inspire Others, and Take Control of Your Own PD Destiny to give away!…
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What Else Can We Do
We’re back. And it’s normal. At least everyone keeps telling themselves that. Twenty one days into the new school year, and I was excited as I entered the building…
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Nothing Planned
I recently had to check the calendar app on my phone to see if a new event was a conflict with anything else on the schedule. I picked up…
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What’s Age Got To Do With It?
I recently listened to the Revisionist History podcast episode Outliers, Revisited. In the episode, Malcolm Gladwell investigates the privilege that athletes and students have based on their birth dates.…
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Forest First
We often have the problem in education of not being able to see the forest for the trees. We often focus on very minute details and forget our larger…
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Bounded Flexibility
Freedom and flexibility often scare teachers. It’s the fear that freedom equals chaos. WL Gore, the manufacturing company behind Gore-Tex, promotes the idea of bounded flexibility, freedom within constraints.…
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Decide What’s Important
As educators, we recognize the amount of tasks that come across our desks each day, not to mention the number of decisions that we must make on a regular…
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Be Intentional (when it comes to Classroom Design)
I never really gave classroom design much thought. As a teacher, I made some conscious decisions about the classroom, but it wasn’t something that was important to me. And…