There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This post is inspired by the anger, jealousy, weariness and frustration from educators I have seen and heard lately as [...]

Have you heard of the Teaching Channel? Neither had I until a talented video producer gave me a call and asked if I would be willing to serve as a pedagogical expert in a short professional development video. My task: Coach a first-year social studies teacher through the process of integrating social media into her [...]

Finally! The cover to our book: The Connected Educator: Learning and leading in a Digital Age which comes out early Oct. Lani and I hope you will consider reading  it and getting a copy for your faculty as well. Who should read this book? To all learners—educators, teachers, administrators, curriculum developers, parents, and students—who have [...]

David and I were  out riding the bike today- the “stretch” (a tandem bike). It was a Christmas gift a few years back. Something I had always dreamed of getting as a child. I love the machine almost as much as I love my computer. We rode hard for two hours. It’s weird, these days [...]

Subtitle: What 15 minutes of fame looks like in the 21st Century or The anatomy of a viral tweet and its implications for educators. NOTE: I plan to update or amend this post as new things happen. In what world do strawberry picking, crafting, the royal wedding and social media all have something in common? [...]

There is a transformation I believe must take place in teaching and learning practices if elementary and secondary schools are to remain relevant in an era when information and communication technologies will continue to expand exponentially. In this Education Week Teacher interview with education journalist John Norton, I describe the shift that needs to take [...]

As the CEO of a professional development company whose mantra is “Professional Development for the 21st Century Educator” I find myself continually cognitively juggling what’s best for my clients, what’s best for their students, and what’s best for our contractors and staff in an effort to find some way of making it all align with [...]

Dear Will, You know better than anyone that I am an optimist. I truly do see possibilities more than problems. Well, I woke up this morning feeling empty. I woke up grieving for children. I blame it on a dream I had. A dream about unhappy students, hundreds of them, shuffling through halls with broken [...]

Without a doubt some of my best personal learning lately has been done in the company of two Australians: Sofia Pardo  and Richard Olsen of ideasLab in Melbourne. Over the past three years I have spent countless hours online and in person with these two brilliant minds thinking about the knowledge construction that happens in [...]

Cross posted from Conversations from the Edge Series Conversations from the Edge is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues about education’s shifting learning landscape. Hosted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson. Dear Will, I have been thinking a lot about standards, Common Core, and the dynamic tension education is experiencing between content and [...]