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What is agency?
Similar to the second blog in this three-part series, which clarified the term “next generation literacy,” this post clarifies the meaning of a word: agency. We adopted the word agency from Peter...
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When the Going Gets Tough
Recently, Kim sat at the kitchen table while her eleventh-grade son, Matthew, ate breakfast and chattered on about this and that. He landed on the topic of oral presentations in school and said,...
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Thinking in the New Year: A Note from Jan
One rainy day last year, while staying at a condominium at the beach, I took my two youngest sons to the indoor pool. There were two older women in the heated pool alone, deeply engaged in talking...
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Thinking in the New Year (A Note from Kim)
The beginning of January is one of my favorite times of the year. The process of reflecting on the past year and thinking about what I want to do differently or better to improve some aspect of my...
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Are you among the 1%?
Not surprisingly, as we develop goals and plan for 2017, we are reading about goal setting. In 5: Where Will You Be 5 Years From Now?, Dan Zadra has blown us away with research on goal setting. He...
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What’s in a Name?
As we set (and write down) our short and long term goals, we inevitably work through the conventional thinking of writing our goals in categories, such as family, fitness, career, etc. There are a lot...
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Great Texts: Finding Love’s Signal Through All the Accountability Noise
Like most areas of public interest, education is one of those topics subject to ongoing chatter about “what’s best” and “what’s most likely to reform or transform learning for all students.”...
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What Will You Teach Tomorrow?
When time is of the essence, busy educators looking to grow as professionals are faced with difficult decisions about what to read. Do they go for the book filled with lesson ideas that will...
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Keeping the End in Mind: Thinking About Instruction
While there is a well-established practice of opening a lesson by telling students what you are going to teach them, it is important that we are thoughtful and intentional about this “what” in each...
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Small Moves, Big Change
We have long been fascinated with sports stories. We have written about Billy Beane, who changed the way baseball players are recruited; about the coach of the Vancouver Canucks, who gained an...
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