I read (or reread) 141 books last year, which I believe is a record for me, at least since my childhood years. Does some of ...

Fall 2025 Commencement was fun. I continued in my Faculty Marshal role. This time I was in charge of the doctoral students.

Welcome to the resource page for the free 4 Shifts Protocol (formerly known as trudacot), a discussion protocol intended to help facilitate educator conversations about deeper learning, greater ...

Leadership Day 2010 - The final list! Adventures in Online Synchronous Communication What I've been up to: Silver Lining for Learning My thoughts on a proposed social media policy for… Should we get ...

I had a conversation with a parent a few weeks back during which she said something like this: My husband and I are worried about how prevalent screens are in our children’s lives. We are striving to ...

Leadership Day 2010 - The final list! Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit AI in the classroom: Building digital citizenship… STEM-oriented problem-based learning Social-emotional learning in middle ...

I have read or revisited a number of education books in recent years as I’ve been visiting innovative, deeper learning schools all around the world. I could recommend many, but I keep returning to How ...

1. Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. Note the huge spike in January 2022 due to the Omicron variant. Also note that the National ...

I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT from OpenAI. Below are a few prompts and the responses generated by the artificial intelligence (AI) of ChatGPT. Be sure to see the last question below! Your ...

There is a prevailing conception that students must learn facts and procedural knowledge BEFORE they can then engage in so-called ‘higher-order’ thinking skills. Educators, parents, policymakers, ...

[Disclaimer: Kim Cofino is a friend of mine and I highly respect her work!] Kim and her team have identified and curated a fantastic set of resources. The Coach is designed to be a 12-month experience ...

If you didn’t know, I’m a huge baseball fan (Go Twins!). This year I’m particularly excited because I have not one but TWO fantasy baseball leagues. Woo hoo! We don’t play for money. Just bragging ...