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Seize the Paintbrush!

It is Monday morning and I can’t wait to go to work. I know that may …

5 Countries Later, the Fight for Services Continues

Five Countries Later, the Fight for Services Continues

When you are expecting your child and when they arrive into this world, the thought doesn’t …

There’s an important factor we must consider about knowledge and education – it’s how we use, question, test, and apply knowledge that really matters.

3 Reasons Why Your Kids Should be Practicing Mindfulness

Many of us think that if our kids have enough knowledge about how the world works …

As I consider the extent to which those insights become a part of my pedagogical repertoire and the indelible mark left on me by my students, I am also left wondering - can I truthfully call what I do teaching and what my students do learning?

Towards Colearning

At the conclusion of each course, semester or school year, I reflect in awe at how …

Teaching in 2020

The Silver Linings of Education in 2020

Lysol wipes, masks, toilet paper, hand sanitizer: all things that are not new to education but …

In essence, observations have been done to teachers, not in collaboration with them. And that’s where we are, a system designed to improve teaching and learning inadvertently inhibits trust, and therefore, risk-taking and innovation.

There’s a Better Way to Evaluate Teachers: Trust-Based Observations

The teacher observation process is supposed to improve teaching and learning, but it’s not. Research says …

I created the Woodside High School Athletic Leadership Program which is designed to afford student athletes the opportunity to give back to both the school and community at large, and make an impact which reaches beyond the athletic fields.

Building a Youth Leadership Program: The Woodside High School Story

According to the National Alliance for Secondary Education and Transition, youth leadership is the process that …

Globetrottin' ADs Student Athlete Leadership Conference

Globetrottin’ ADs Student Athlete Leadership Conference

A unique international event focusing on International Schools Student Athletes! Including amazing keynote speakers Sebastien Bellin …

American International School in Vienna, Austria, is First International School to Earn Level 1 Status in NFHS School Honor Roll

American International School in Vienna, Austria, is First International School to Earn Level 1 Status in NFHS School Honor Roll

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (November 3, 2020) – The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) is …

Using the Systems/Structures/Devices/Skills device to explore what good teaching looked like in brick and mortar and what subtle changes can be made to ensure quality encounters online.

The Instructional Coach “Intentionally Pursuing Mastery”

Caution! Instructional coaching is big and there is a lot to learn. Go about it like …

So many fun topics out there!

Can We Learn Languages Remotely? Oui!

Remote teaching is filled with both numerous challenges and an endless list of creative possibilities, but …

7th Grade students work on virtual reality school tour in Lake Forest Country Day School’s Innovation Lab.

Oh, the Humanities: The Benefits of Makerspace Facilitation by a Non-STEM Teacher

Robots slowly moving across tables. The strangely maple-scent of PLA plastic melting to form 3D prints. …