The new school year is upon us and we are giddy with excitement and hope for the best school year yet! For some, the first day of school is a few weeks away. For educators like the amazing people I met at my keynote today in Oklahoma, the first day of school is just a few hours away. Regardless of … Read More
How to Master Personalized Learning
Personalized learning doesn’t have to be scary. Personalized learning is a phrase that’s going around education and spreading like wild fire. At first thought, it sounds amazing. Being able to provide every student with what they need, when they need it based on their interests and abilities, would be AWESOME! However, when we try to figure out how to make … Read More
There’s Still Time To Make A Change!
There’s still time to make changes in your classroom! Whether you’re heading back to school, coming off a holiday break, or maybe you’re smack dab in the middle of a school year, I know it’s easy to feel “locked in” and unable to make any changes. This is fairly common. As the stress of the year increases, it feels like … Read More
8 Tips for the Part-Time Teacherpreneur
Being a teacherpreneur can be exciting, scary, and nerve-racking all at the same time. Building something from scratch can take some time. As a teacher, your passion is in the classroom, which means you’ll most likely start off as what we call a sidepreneur, or someone who is an entrepreneur “on the side”, meaning on the side of their full-time … Read More
4 Rules for Communicating With Your Staff
How do you communicate with your staff? If you spend any significant amount of time with educators, you know that we value relationships. Building strong relationships with students is critical for creating a learning environment that is positive, effective, and impactful. In real estate, location is everything, right? Location, location, location! In education, relationships are everything. Relationships, relationships, relationships! And … Read More