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I kicked off a new principal licensure cohort this week. It’s always fun to meet a fresh group of graduate students for the ...

I read (or reread) 141 books last year, which I believe is a record for me, at least since my childhood years. Does some of ...

Fall 2025 Commencement was fun. I continued in my Faculty Marshal role. This time I was in charge of the doctoral students.

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 ...

As we head out of the All-Star Game break, here is a look at the standings in my two fantasy baseball leagues. As you can see, my Twinkies are struggling… in both leagues. I am an eternal optimist ...

1. Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. Note the huge spike in January 2022 due to the Omicron variant. Also note that the National ...

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

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The Death of Subjective Values Notes from Code Studio elementary coding training Leadership Day 2010 - The final list! Books I read in December 2022 Books I read in January 2024 ...

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 ...

About ten years ago when I was in Iowa, a middle school principal decided that her students weren’t trying hard enough on the state tests. So she set up a fun end-of-year field trip to the amusement ...