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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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Game Strategy & Decision Making
I watched a small group math lesson in which students were playing a game trying to build the largest number. The idea was to spin a spinner and use…
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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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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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Deciding Who’s Going to Decide
In Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling rule #12 is, “Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th -get the obvious out of the…
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Immediate Decision Making
On a daily basis, I make a ton of decisions. Some of them are important to big picture decisions that impact many. These often require taking in a lot of…
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What’s for Dinner?
What’s for dinner? It’s a common question in some households. And often the answer is a refrain of “I don’t know. What do you want?” It can be hard to…
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Data Driven versus Data Informed
Buzzwords in education come and go. One of the more popular buzzwords over the last dozen years that continues to be used is “data driven.” While participating in interviews…
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Two birds. One stone.
My daughter had her spring concert at school last Monday. It was an evening concert beginning at 7pm that lasted nearly an hour. After the concert in the auditorium,…