Students are not plants!

I created this video in the same way I created Instructional Coach, via Garage Band, iMovie, and with my own photos and videos. This time I did not rap, and for this we are truly grateful. This video tells the story of my son’s Geranium adequately. What I did not put into the text was […]

The beginning of the end of the beginning.

Microsoft PowerPoint was first released in 1987 (Wikipedia, 2019a). The original slide deck software, PowerPoint revolutionized presentations everywhere, freeing us from the trials and tribulations of drawing, or even worse, photocopying, onto transparencies. As a testament to their significance in communication, the form and features of myriad slide deck programs remain similar to this day. […]

On becoming a scheduler.

Once upon a time, Cheryl Bissonette (RLC’s Assistant Head of School) had a vision for what she called an end-of-semester ‘personalized week.’ Her exact words may very well have been: “What if we set up exam week so that students have a mix of required items, such as presentations and exams, and options such as […]

Have you read Drive yet?

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink (buy it) was released nearly ten years ago in 2009. I first learned about it from educators on Twitter and it was one of my summer reads in 2015. If you want to know where I took what I learned from it back when […]