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Dear colleague, With all due respect to Simon Sinek, why isn’t the best place to start in the classroom. It’s the place to linger, sure. It’s the place to point many dozens of creative and passionate and argumentative mini-sermons per semester, absolutely. But it’s not the place to start. Instead, start with WHERE. Teachers and […]

Dear colleague, Brene Brown has this line that I love, and I heard it in a talk so what follows is perhaps a paraphrase: “There are two kinds of people in the world: crazy people who know they are crazy and crazy people who do not.” To Brown, what makes a person sane is grappling […]

Dear colleague, Some time ago, I was listening to some professional development, and I noted something — it was all aimed at my head! The presenter’s working theory seemed to be that if I’d just think and understand correctly, then all would be well for me, and my life would be better ever after. And […]

Dear colleague, A few years ago, a principal I was helping with a yearlong PD program on the Five Key Beliefs texted this to me after a session: The first thing I did was look up what it meant — I, like the principal, didn’t know. I discovered that it meant getting something to come […]

Dear colleague, Just a quick share for you today. I made this one-pager (front and back) for some PD client schools last year but forgot to share it here on the blog. Sharing it now in case you’d like a simplified reference to the core strategies and graphical thinking tools found in my book, The […]