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Mid-Year Check-In: How Friction Can Fuel Your Success

It's about this time of year that I start to get reflective (full disclosure: I'm pretty reflective year-round...just especially...

Friction: The Leadership Tool You Didn't Know You Needed

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Friction: The Leadership Tool You Didn't Know You Needed

When you think of friction, you might picture something that slows us down—think of dragging furniture across carpet or hitting every red...

Thriving Together: The Power of Communication in Driving Process Forward

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Thriving Together: The Power of Communication in Driving Process Forward

I say that my work is about empowering excellence and innovation in Jewish education, and that’s true. It’s the driving force behind...

Thriving by Design: The Importance of Process and Communication in Successful Change

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Thriving by Design: The Importance of Process and Communication in Successful Change

At first glance, the different projects I take on might seem varied, even unrelated. My current project load includes the following:...

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Holding Onto Summer

I’m having a really hard time with the transition from summer to fall. Don’t get me wrong. Fall is my favorite season, and I am so...

Creating Cultures of Growth and Coaching

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Creating Cultures of Growth and Coaching

When you think about a coach, what do you picture? Coming off a season of summer baseball, my first thought goes to the parent volunteers...

Using the Summer to Set the Tone for the Year

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Using the Summer to Set the Tone for the Year

Summer is a weird time for those of us who follow an academic calendar. For much of the school year, we keep a running list of the things...

There’s No Time Like Summer for a Little AI

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There’s No Time Like Summer for a Little AI

According to EdWeek, the reason most educators haven’t started using artificial intelligence (even if they know that it could be a really...

Towards Co-Intelligence (Or How You Can Keep from being Obsolete)

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Towards Co-Intelligence (Or How You Can Keep from being Obsolete)

When I start working with a school or an organization in the area of artificial intelligence, it’s usually because they say that they...

Quarterbacks, Teachers, and College – Finding the Hidden Potential Everywhere

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Quarterbacks, Teachers, and College – Finding the Hidden Potential Everywhere

In both a piece for The New Yorker and his book Outliers, author Malcom Gladwell defined what he calls “the quarterback problem.” He...

What is the Future of Education? And Does it Even Matter?

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What is the Future of Education? And Does it Even Matter?

I was invited to an event, which (sadly) I cannot attend, called, “What Might Education Look Like in 2040?” I love events like this....

There is No New Thing Under the Sun – Including with AI

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There is No New Thing Under the Sun – Including with AI

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under...

Putting the AI into Your EducAtIonal Philosophy

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Putting the AI into Your EducAtIonal Philosophy

I want to be very clear – you need an educational philosophy. Both you, as an educator and/or leader of an educational organization, and...

Using AI to Redefine what Education Could (and Should) Be

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Using AI to Redefine what Education Could (and Should) Be

I was on the committee for technology integration at my school from 2007-2010 when “bring your own device” was being explored, and we...

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Being Intentional about Intentionality

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about mindfulness and intentionality with time. While it’s pretty common (and a badge of honor) these...

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The Power of the (Intentional) Present

I spent the first two weeks of April in a whirlwind of all of the things – taking my daughter to Dallas for Taylor Swift, taking all four...

Taylor Swift, Passover, and the Power of Moments

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Taylor Swift, Passover, and the Power of Moments

There’s a quote from the 2001 movie Riding in Cars with Boys that I will always remember – “One day can change your life. One day can...

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