Got a note recently from Yvonne Arpino, who’s an Art teacher in Australia. Her note was incredibly gracious and motivating for me and my team, both because it made us happy to know our work was useful, but also because of her humility and passion for learning. She’s an 18-year veteran trying to get better every…
To raise your hand is a critical act that deserves some reflection, even if at first it seems obvious. In a micro sense, every time students raise their hands, a milepost passes—an important one. To raise your hand is to mark the passage of an event worthy of action. You say, both to others and to…
David Epstein’s The Sports Gene has to be one of the two or three best books I’ve read in the last year. It may be one of the best researched and most intellectually challenging books I’ve ever read- mostly in terms of how it forced me to challenge (and change) my assumptions about nature versus nurture….
After day one of our Behavior and Culture workshop yesterday, a participant used our end-of-day survey to ask a question about Anonymous Individual Corrections. He wanted to know if they had to be preceded by a What To Do direction or whether he could use them to correct for behaviors that were installed and instilled expectations….
Erica, Colleen, and I are halfway through a two-day workshop for Uncommon teachers from Boston, Rochester and Troy–two days talking about the best job in the world with great people and hopefully help get them better at it. Hard to beat. The other ‘best thing’ about the work we do is getting to be part of…