I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so this week I am catching up!] Krista Leh was kind ...

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in May 2025… The Ending Fire, Saara El-Arifi (fantasy) The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (fantasy) A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (fantasy) The Last ...

Welcome to the resource page for the free 4 Shifts Protocol (formerly known as trudacot), a discussion protocol intended to help facilitate educator conversations about deeper learning, greater ...

Hey, y’all, I think I have this whole ‘AI in education’ thing figured out. Am I doing this right?

A number of folks have been eagerly encouraging schools to ‘reinvent’ themselves after the pandemic. Here is a smattering of such articles: I’m guilty of this too. I even helped create an entirely new ...

[ISTELive 2024 starts this week so I am resurrecting three blog posts from previous years. Below is Blast From the Past (BFTP) #3 from 2013!] Here’s my guiding question for the ISTE conference this ...

I had a conversation with a parent a few weeks back during which she said something like this: My husband and I are worried about how prevalent screens are in our children’s lives. We are striving to ...

I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT from OpenAI. Below are a few prompts and the responses generated by the artificial intelligence (AI) of ChatGPT. Be sure to see the last question below! Your ...

There is a prevailing conception that students must learn facts and procedural knowledge BEFORE they can then engage in so-called ‘higher-order’ thinking skills. Educators, parents, policymakers, ...

G. V. Ramanathan, emeritus professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science, asks in the Washington Post: How much math do you really need in everyday life? Ask yourself that — and also the ...

The work of Willard Daggett is HUGE here in Iowa. Dr. Daggett heads the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). His emphasis on ‘rigor, relevance, and relationships’ is so prevalent ...

Liz Garden, my co-Fellow for the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Center for Innovative Learning (CIL), and I had a chance to talk with Holly Clark about the use of ...