…or, ‘And Nothing of Value was Lost’. Several months ago, I decided to do something I hadn’t done in over ten years prior: take a conscious, long-term break from regular (i.e., monthly) blogging. It didn’t start that way, of course (nothing ever does, does it?). I’ve been blogging in this…
Category: Ed Leadership
Broadening Our Audience: Published Again!
After our short article “Teaching Social Media at Lawrence High School” was published in NJASA‘s newsletter On Target last spring (itself a follow-up to our January 2017 presentation at Techspo ’17 in Atlantic City, NJ), I spoke with my colleagues Dr. Andrew Zuckerman and Ms. Natalie Richey about fleshing it out further…
Lighting Fires is Easy…
…but keeping them burning? That’s a whole ‘nother matter. My friend & colleague Jessica Cincotta blogged last week about the professional reading groups in which she and I have participated this year. Read her post for the details, but the “quick n’ dirty” is that Jessica and I actually participated in…
ICYMI: Teaching Social Media at LHS
After our presentation at Techspo ’17, the New Jersey Association of School Administrators was kind enough to ask my colleague Dr. Andrew Zuckerman and I to contribute a piece to their monthly newsletter for school superintendents on the Intro to Social Media course that has run at Lawrence (NJ) High School since…
#SLDunkTank Redux
A little more on Escaping the School Leader’s Dunk Tank this month: So ‘self-help’ really isn’t my preferred reading genre, but in addition to Dunk Tank, I highly recommend 10% Happier, by Dan Harris (yes, that Dan Harris). Much of what Harris ultimately uncovers (spoiler alert) is that our own…