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Do you love baseball? We lost a manager in our educator fantasy baseball league and need a new one…  Details are below. Please get in touch ASAP if you are interested.  Rounding for Home is a friendly competitive, weekly head-to-head, fantasy baseball league heading into its fourth...

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in January 2025… In Search of Deeper Learning, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine (education) The Final Strife, Saara El-Arifi (fantasy) Five Broken Blades, Mai Corland (fantasy) Four Ruined Realms, Mai Corland (fantasy) The Burning, Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman (thriller) The Lost Coast, Jonathan Kellerman and...

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 sit down at the NAESP / NASSP UNITED conference last July and talk with Erik Francis. If you’re not familiar with...

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 artificial intelligence (AI) in elementary and middle schools. Holly is a bestselling author...

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 Bryan Byerlee about school redesign. Bryan is the principal of Garden City Elementary School in Cranston, Rhode Island. He...

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in December 2024… The Industries of the Future, Alec Ross (economics) On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder (government) The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (science fiction) The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon (fantasy) We Solve Murders, Richard Osman (mystery) Saints of...

One of the schools that I visited for my Deeper Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools (DLEMS) book project was Down to Earth Forest School in West Linn, Oregon. Down to Earth Forest School is a phenomenal outdoor learning experience for the children that it...

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I have read or revisited a number of education books in recent years as I’ve been visiting innovative, deeper learning schools all around the world. I could recommend many, but I keep returning to How Children Fail by John Holt. Below are 52 quotes from...

I officially wrapped up all of my school visits for my Deeper Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools (DLEMS) book project last week. I have seen some incredible schools the past two years and am excited to finish writing up what I have learned. I...

Below is a snippet from A.J. Juliani’s blog post, The relevancy problem: What can we do to make learning meaningful? I encourage you to read the entire post, which is an excerpt from his upcoming book, Meaningful and Relevant: Engaging Learners In An Era of...