What is STEAM2? Differentiation for the Whole Child
“She made me do the green packet. No teacher should make a student do the green packet if she wants to do the yellow one. I don’t care if it means working harder.” So said a sixth grader in a…
If Learning Styles are “Out,” What’s “In” for Differentiated Instruction?
Recently, Bryan Goodwyn wrote an article on zombie education ideas that need to go six feet under for good. And, he rightly included teaching to visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learning styles, or modalities, to improve student academic performance in that…
Holistic School Leadership–Illinois Oct 5
I just learned that there are still a few tickets left for my workshop Holistic Leadership: Everyone Leading From Their Strengths on October 5, just outside of Chicago. Why attend? You receive a copy of my Gold-Medal-winning book on the…
Typing from Afar
Name a movie or TV show and somewhere on the internet you can find someone’s blog, “The MBTI Types of the Characters of...” Name a well-known personality and chances are, you can find opinions on his or her type as…
Holistic Leadership, Thriving Schools—to Serve the Whole Child
“Waaaaiiiiit…this is practical,” exclaim the coaches I’ve trained in using Holistic Leadership Coaching. And, “Waaaiiitt…I use this process again and again as my goals or roles or staff change, can’t I?” say my coaches. While the book Holistic Leadership, Thriving…
Helping Women Step In—And Up—to School Leadership
It all started in Australia in 2018. My publisher flew me over to keynote at a Women in Education conference to substitute for two beloved Australians who were quarantined in the Philippines with some tropical disease. There, in Brisbane, I…
Why a Women in Education Leadership Event?
Have you noticed there’s a Women in Education: Leading Perspectives Institute in July? In San Antonio? Are you thinking, "Why an event just for women? Isn’t ‘cross-pollination’ among genders a better way to improve the lives of children?” If you’re…
My Top Five 2018 Reads
Okay, if Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Trilogy can have five volumes, my top five can have seven this year. So many great titles to choose from that I’ve categorized them for any of you who for whatever reasons avoid some genres.…
Type Angels and Saboteur Demons
Personality type is a wonderful tool for personal development, but it doesn’t explain everything about people, powerful as it is. As type expert Sandra Hirsh told me early on in our writing partnership, “If the only tool you have is…
Workshop Facilitation: From Good to Great
If I’ve learned one thing in 25 years of workshop facilitation, it’s the importance of experiential exercises. You almost have to wonder whether John Dewey, an American philosopher whose ideas still shape education, had been to a boring, lecture-only type…