My blog occupies a funny middle ground on the Internet. It’s not big enough to make me famous, infamous, or even Internet-famous, but it apparently garners enough traffic that I get emailed regularly asking if I would post an ad link to this company or allow a guest post from…
Re-Statement of Purpose: Why I Blog
Today marks exactly 4 1/2 years since I wrote my first blog post here at Apace of Change. In it, I laid out my initial intentions for this blog: …I want to engage with other educators – not just teachers, but administrators, psychologists, LDTCs, and others in the education field…
Habits of Mind: Empathy
This post is part of a series on sixteen “Habits of Mind” put forth by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick as being “necessary for success in school, work, and life” (Costa & Kallick, 2010, p. 212). Listening with understanding and empathy: Understand others! Devoting mental energy to another person’s…
Shifting My Sharing
Despite the periodic blog posts heralding the death of RSS, I remain a huge fan of the syndication format (not familiar with RSS? Check the wiki). I have been an avid user of Google Reader for nearly five years now, and I use it daily to aggregate and read, at…
This Is A Call: Distributed Leadership
Happy New Year! As my doctoral program rolls right along, I am currently in the throes of the literature review section of my dissertation. After some going back and forth between potential topics, I have decided to focus my dissertation on the theory of distributed leadership. I’m still in the…