The Power of Noticing

The Power of Noticing

Keynote Speaker, Educator, Author, and Igniter of #YouMatter This weekend I re-watched one of my favorite movies, Shall We Dance. As cute as Richard Gere was in the movie (and boy was he) my attention centered on a moment in where his onscreen wife, Susan Sarandon...
A Linchpin Hierarchy

A Linchpin Hierarchy

  Do exactly what the boss says. Ask the boss hard questions. Tell the boss what your best choice among the available options is. Insist. Have co-workers and bosses ask you hard questions. Invent a whole new way to do things, something that wasn’t on the list....
A Daily Dose of Classroom Habitudes

A Daily Dose of Classroom Habitudes

As I wrote last May, Classroom Habitudes, published in 2008, is more popular now than ever, with book studies popping up every week and entire districts and even states full of teachers reading the book. To celebrate, we’ll be announcing an online course about the...