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Books I finished reading (or rereading) in June 2025... Implementing Project Based Learning in Early Childhood, Sara Lev, Amanda Clark, & Erin Starkey (education) The First Book of Swords, Fred ...
[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Tim Boyle, principal of Science Leadership Academy Middle School ...
[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Amie McElroy, elementary school director at STEM School in ...
[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Recently I had the opportunity to appear on the Education Matters podcast with Jason Buccheri. Jason was an ...
[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Adam Phyall and Carl Hooker were kind (brave? dumb?) enough to invite me onto their Future Ready Schools ...
[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Krista Leh was kind enough to invite me on her SEL in EDU podcast back in February. Krista is a ...
Here is an excerpt from today’s New York Times article, How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 students Into the A.I. Future: Her class at Southwest Miami Senior High School had already read about John ...
I have read or revisited a number of education books in recent years as I’ve been visiting innovative, deeper learning schools all around the world. I could recommend many, but I keep returning to How ...
I officially wrapped up all of my school visits for my Deeper Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools (DLEMS) book project last week. I have seen some incredible schools the past two years and am ...
[ISTELive 2024 starts this week so I am resurrecting three blog posts from previous years. Below is Blast From the Past (BFTP) #3 from 2013!] Here's my guiding question for the ISTE conference this ...
[I am highlighting various initiatives of the ISTE Community Leaders…] In addition to The Edge podcast, ongoing meetups, and various conference-related events, the ISTE Community Leaders also ...
Breaking news! A nationally-representative poll of more than 1,000 teenagers finds that… students are still bored. Here are some key findings: 64% of teenagers think that school is boring 70% of ...