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#GeniusHour: our promise to students that their passions matter What are your hopes and dreams for this school year? Many teachers ask students this question at the start of every school year. It sets the stage for awesome learning to follow. Posing it to students and...

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...

This is a guest post written by Jodi Okun (@JodiOkun), founder of College Financial Aid Advisors and host of the #CollegeCash Twitter Chat             I am excited to be this week’s special guest. As Jodi and I talked about a topic that...

  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....

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...

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash The life of a teacher requires a big investment in the well-being of others. As a teacher, my drive to and from school every day was filled with scenes from the school day and thoughts about whether my students were truly...

As adults, each of us has a chance to make a positive and impactful difference in a child’s life. But in order to do this, we must carefully consider this question: What matters most to our children? Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash For 20 years I have been posing this...

5 New Updates From Clubhouse We Love! Clubhouse updated their app this past Sunday and there are some awesome new features I wanted to share with you! 1. Invite people to your club: Want to share your club event with your friends, but they aren’t on the Clubhouse app...

Digital Literacy Is About Power and Privilege This post was co-authored by Nora Moran, a student at Northern Highlands High School in New Jersey. April 14th is Leaders for Literacy day, a movement started by the International Literacy Association in 2015 to bring...