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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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7 Tips for Improved Parent Teacher Conferences
Let parents set the tone. Ask how they think the year is going first before sharing. Show them that their input matters.Increase the role of the child. Decrease the…