Too Good At The Wrong Thing

I started talking about this a little bit in my February Learning Inventory, but I really felt like I needed to revisit it here. I’ve said before that I think things tend to come at us in waves. Well, this idea of “Don’t get too good at the wrong thing” is…

Learning and Doing

I just finished reading a book titled, No Excuses Leadership: Nine Bold Choices Exceptional Leaders Make by Damen Lopez. It’s a quick read with some solid, practical advice for school leaders. As I was reading, he made a point in Chapter 7 that stayed with me. He talked about the need…

Don’t Just Consume. Create Something.

  This is something that I have been thinking a lot about lately, and it is an idea that has helped me grow more than I could have imagined over the last three years or so. To begin with, let me just say that I have never considered myself to…