Toward the end of Damon Centola’s book Change: How To Make Big Things Happen, he shares the following anecdote about former president Barack Obama. Then-president Obama, facing a particularly difficult policy decision, wanted to make sure all voices were heard, […]
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No, students shouldn’t leave their baggage at the door
Recently, I was speaking with a teacher about what we can do to help some of our higher-risk students succeed. We’d had struggles in the classroom with cell phones and outbursts. What was clear was that our students had difficulty […]
This New Year, Consider Values, Not Resolutions
As we head into Covid’s Junior Year, the idea of a New Year’s Resolution probably seems as absurd as ever. After all, if there’s one thing we’ve learned the past two years, it’s that we know nothing. Nothing of what […]