As anyone who knows me well can tell you, I don’t buy into the idea of New Year’s resolutions. I find January a completely arbitrary time to change behaviors; after all, if you feel strongly enough about a habit or behavior to want to change it, why wait til January…
2017 Reading Challenge: Completed!
It’s been way too long since my last post, but life, work, and all the obligations that come and go betwixt and between have conspired to put the kibosh on my blogging mojo. I’m taking advantage of a rare moment of clarity amidst the otherwise rushed holiday season to write…
Habits of Mind: Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
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). Remaining Open to Continuous Learning: Learn from experiences! Having humility and pride when…
Ten
This past week, tech journalists across the web celebrated the tenth birthday of the hashtag. While they are ubiquitous across social networks now, the hashtag as we have come to know it originated, as have so many other major events and movements of the last decade, on Twitter: how do…
So Far, So Good: My 2017 Reading Challenge
For the past few years, I’ve taken some space here each December and/or January to highlight the books I read or plan to read in a given year. Among the many uses I’ve found for blogging in the last decade, goal-setting (and the public accountability thereof) has been one of…