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Highlighters, Hair Color, and Happiness: Reflections on The Seed by Jon Gordon

I frequently highlight books while I’m reading them. I love to take a fluorescent highlighter and mark up quotes that have meaning to me...

Choosing my #OneWord2018 was challenging for me. As I reflected on 2017 and considered the possibilities of 2018 several words came to...

“Wait, What?” – 5 Essential Life Questions #Beloved In a Harvard School of Education graduation commencement speech, Dean James Ryan...

School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It by Steve Gruenert & Todd Whitaker The authors state, “This book is...

2017 – My Year of Living Audaciously I have been listening to Hamilton: The Musical a lot recently. In the parking lot, before I enter...

Recently I had an opportunity to listen to the Ditch that Homework presentation by Alice Keeler on the Ditch that Textbook Digital Summit....

Recently I had the opportunity to listen to Paul Solarz, author of Learn Like a Pirate, on the Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit. Solarz...

I just finished reading Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. I wished this book had been written years ago. ...

I recently read Tribes: We need you to lead us by Seth Godin. Godin defines a tribe as “a group of people connected to one another,...

My Risky Business: Don’t Get Ready – Get Started A few days ago, I had the opportunity to listen to Noah Geisel on Ditch that Textbook...

*Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess

*Lead Like a Pirate by Shelly Burgess & Beth Houf

*The Seed by Jon Gordon

*Kids Deserve It by Adam Welcome & Todd Nesloney

*Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School by Mark Barnes & Jennifer Gonzalez

*Creative Schools by Ken Robinson

*School Culture Rewired by Steve Gruenert & Todd Whitaker