I am by habit a bibliophile. I read at least 25 pages of a book per day which usually turns in to 40-60 books per year. I've written a few books myself, and plan to write more. But this list is not about me, it's really about us as an education community. What are we [...]

My first season as a head football coach, our team had gone undefeated leading up to the final game of the season. We had a heck of a team with two great running backs, a stout defense, and a quarterback who completely understood our offense. Somehow the scene was set up out of a teen-movie. [...]

And just like that...it was over. I'd pitched the 20% time project to my students with only a few days of planning, but it turned out to be the project that redefined my view of what teaching and learning could look like in today's modern classroom. If you had walked into my classroom during the [...]

I've had the pleasure of working with a lot of new teachers the past three years, and I've seen many of the same mistakes I made during my first year teaching repeated over and over. Now, this isn't to say that I thought teaching was extremely difficult during my first year (I actually loved it [...]

This is a guest post from Allison Stephens, our HS Assistant Principal at Upper Perkiomen SD. It's so great to see all of our building level administrators on Twitter engaging, but this is an honest post on what it's like navigating a twitter chat for the first time. Enjoy! So I have been thinking about [...]

This is the introduction to my new book, Learning by Choice: 10 Ways to Transform Your Classroom Into a Student-Centered Experience.  When I was 5 years old I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I still didn’t know at age 17. And guess what? I’m still having trouble figuring it [...]

In 11th grade I decided to try out for the school musical. I'd never been involved in a school drama or musical, and spent most of my time playing varsity football and basketball. I ended up being chosen to play the part of the Lion in the Wizard of Oz. Talk about embarrassing! I heard [...]

Wow, what can we say! This past summer we decided to start a learning space design challenge on ClassroomCribs.com to highlight all of the amazing "cribs" that you have designed for students. Instead of just "aesthetics" we focused this challenge on brain-friendly learning spaces that promoted deep learning and engagement through design. And we were [...]

Imagine you've been teaching for 15 years. In those 15 years you have grown as a professional, learned new technologies, shifted with the standards, had new initiative after new initiative started in your school, and seen the way you have been evaluated move from observations to data back to observations and data. In those 15 [...]