5 Steps to Making Sure School Remains a Priority During COVID-19 Closures… Even If Your Kids Seem to Think It’s Just More Spring Break

Five Ways for You and Your School to Thrive in the 2021-22 School Year

The 2021-22 school year is here, and after a summer of hoping and believing that this year would bring us back to normal, many of us are discovering that we may not be so lucky. In many school districts, the debate on masks is once again at the forefront, social distancing is still required, and…

We Did the Math on What a Teaching Degree Will Earn You Over the Life of Your Career. Here’s What We Found…

Your guide to nailing down exactly what you’ll spend earning a teaching degree, and the actual dollar value of that education over the course of your career. Okay, okay… we know that no one goes into teaching to get rich. You do it because you love it, because there’s a warm and fuzzy pay-off…

Teaching is Not a Job. It’s a Calling…

“What keeps you going? What encourages you? Why haven’t you quit?” I read those lines a few days ago in a book entitled, Leading with a Limp by Dan Allender and instantly underlined them. Not because I’m ready to turn in my keys, but because I know a lot of educators are. Especially teachers. Others…

10 Podcasts To Prepare for Anything That Might Come Our Way in the 2020-21 School Year

Years ago, when I wanted to be a writer, I read Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and was struck by one of his foundational truths: if you want to be able to write good stories, you need to be reading good stories - all the time. I think the same can…

Valuable Lessons from Atari on How to Level-Up on Education Post-COVID-19

“If I was going to school right now to be a teacher,” a colleague said during the COVID-19 lockdown, “I’d be thinking about doing something else.” “Why?” I asked. “Because this isn’t teaching,” he said with no trace of a smile or humor anywhere on his face, “This is hell.” I’d never heard this teacher…

Bedside Manners and Battle Cries: Ways to End the Year Strong and Create Stories Worth Remembering

“Every organization in the world is either going to emerge from this stronger as an organization, or weaker because of what they didn’t do.” - Patrick Lencioni I’m not sure how you feel, but since local control has been handed over to communities and schools, a sort of clarity has emerged and we are…