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…
Your Routines

Your Routines

  You work to build routines and implement easy to follow procedures for students at the beginning of the year. Consistent routines can be a great help for students who…
Great Writers Write

Great Writers Write

  Seth Godin was once being interviewed and was asked this question: What is your actual writing process? He challenged the question by explaining that the writing process is irrelevant.…