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.

Will Deyamport (Dr. Will!), educational technology expert and entrepreneurship guru, invited me to appear on his podcast and ...

It’s always gratifying to see your resources being used by educators. I’ve worked with the Bismarck Public Schools multiple times on leadership, vision, and instructional design for deeper learning ...

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 ...

This post from a school administrator came across my feeds this weekend: Looking for suggestions of a great speaker for the first week of PD– motivational– reconnecting with your “Why” for staff.

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, ...

Liz Garden, my co-Fellow for the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Center for Innovative Learning (CIL), and I had a chance to sit down at the NAESP / NASSP UNITED ...

Hey, y’all, I think I have this whole ‘AI in education’ thing figured out. Am I doing this right?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...