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Collaborating in Education

In a previous blog, I made a comment about the culture in schools that constricts teachers to &...

Posted on January 22, 2019

PECS - (Picture Exchange Communication System)

In 1975 the US Congress passed Public Law 94-142 in which all public schools that received fede...

Posted on January 4, 2019

Whose Responsibility is it to teach Reading and Writing?

Albert Einstein once said, "If you always do what you always did, you...

Posted on November 26, 2018

The Power of Pronouns

Let me first start by saying “thank you” to our parents, staff, and student...

Posted on September 17, 2018

Students as Teachers

I recently read a blog titled “The good news is 70% of leaders survive their weak...

Posted on May 7, 2018

Why Teach?

Eighteen years ago I started my career in education as a freshman geography teacher at ...

Posted on April 5, 2018

It Doesn’t Have to be a New Idea

The book The Upstarts details the rise of Uber and Airbnb. It tells the story of a grou...

Posted on March 7, 2018

February 15, 2018

With just six lego bricks a person can make more than 915 million different shapes or s...

Posted on February 15, 2018

What's Your One Sentence?

I read an article this week titled “What is your One Sentence?” by Naphtali...

Posted on January 22, 2018

The Power of Social Media

I am a fairly regimented person, and I’ll give you an example of this. When...

Posted on January 9, 2018

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