Ahead, Behind, or Beside

Ahead, Behind, or Beside

  There are moments when you need to walk ahead of everyone else, forging the path, leading by example, expanding the vision, and showing the way. At times, you may…
Learning Experience Design

Learning Experience Design

  How do you go about designing learning experiences for students? What sorts of things do your consider? How do you design for student passions? Don't just plan lessons. Design…
Be A Leader Today

Be A Leader Today

  The other day, I was in the office when one of our Preschool Students was being dropped off. I overheard the following exchange between parent and child: Parent: Who’s…
Who Am I?

Who Am I?

  I’m the quiet kid who sits in the corner with his hoodie pulled tight. But who am I? You’ve never seen me interact with any of the other students.…
Can’t Don’t Won’t

Can’t Don’t Won’t

  We often hear the words can’t, don’t, won’t from many in education. Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators. Don’t do that. You can’t do that. I won’t do that. I’m not…
Learner Agency

Learner Agency

  What happens when we switch our classrooms from being centered around our wants and needs to centering them around the wants and needs of students? We simply allow our…
Giving Up

Giving Up

  What do you do when you finally want to give up? When you have exhausted all possibilities? When no one is working with you toward a goal? When others…
PDIY

PDIY

  Are you still sitting through staff meetings that are irrelevant to what you do? Are you still forced to sit through hour-long sessions where an outside presenter talks AT…
100 CCs of Obecalp

100 CCs of Obecalp

  I was recently listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast in which he interviewed Scott Belsky. Scott's father was a doctor in New York City emergency rooms and told his…
5 Ways to Better Analyze Data

5 Ways to Better Analyze Data

  We are inundated with data in education. Assessment results, student formative data, benchmark scores, progress monitoring data... The list goes on and on. However, if we don't know how…