We were looking for the right phrase to describe this great video of Leadership Prep Ocean Hill’s Rachel King. Then someone suggested the phrase ‘grab bag’–we like that because this clip is like something you’d get at a birthday party– a simple and useful smattering of favors- bright cheery things that are useful and fun. Here…
Since I’m a parent people often ask me how writing Teach Like a Champion has affected my parenting. The answer is: immensely. I’m incredibly grateful to have had the chance to watch master teachers and motivators and inspirers at work for hours and hours and hours so I could try to copy and adapt at…
This is definitely my first blog post about bathrooms. Perhaps it is yours as well, but actually I think they are worthy of some discussion. At least school bathrooms are. And for two reasons: 1) Former NYC parks commissioner Henry Stern once observed that bathrooms become the sites of society’s least palatable behavior. They awaken something…