How to tell if you’ve outgrown your current provider. When it comes to email marketing, the time-tested age-old saying rings true: Your emails are only as good as the service provider sending them. *OK, this isn’t really a time-tested age-old saying, but it should be. Listen, it’s no surprise...
Schools give every encouragement to producers, the kids whose idea is to get “right answers” by any and all means. In a system that runs on “right answers,” they can hardly help it. And these schools are often very discouraging places for thinkers. (Holt, How...
What hampers their thinking, what drives them into these narrow and defensive strategies, is a feeling that they must please the grownups at all costs. The really able thinkers in our class turn out to be, without exception, children who don’t feel so strongly the...
[We used the word producer to describe the student who was only interested in getting right answers, and who made more or less uncritical use of rules and formulae to get them; we called thinker the student who tried to think about the meaning, the...
Back in August I proposed the idea of a Social Impact elective course, a student-driven learning experience that leaned heavily into the Contribution item in Section B of the 4 Shifts Protocol. Since then I’ve heard from a couple of schools that are doing this… Junipero...
The valiant and resolute band of travelers I thought I was leading toward a much-hoped-for destination turned out instead to be more like convicts in a chain gang, forced under threat of punishment to move along a rough path leading nobody knew where and down...
Have a little fun this holiday season with millions of free stock images and GIFs to add to your emails. Adding fun new images and GIFs is a simple and easy way to bring the holidays into your email marketing. And the best part is that...
Have a little fun this holiday season with millions of free stock images and GIFs to add to your emails. Adding fun new images and GIFs is a simple and easy way to bring the holidays into your email marketing. And the best part is that...
You know by now that email marketing is an incredibly powerful tool for staying connected and engaging with your audience, but the success of your email efforts hinges on one crucial detail: whether or not your subscribers are opening your emails. And this is why your...
