“I have an assignment for you,” read the message from my one of my colleagues. “Get a free golf lesson, then write about it. Interested?” Hell, yes, I was interested. Getting to improve my golf game ...

What would you say is the hardest part of teaching? For me, it is lesson planning. It takes me on average six hours a week to plan instruction for the nine science units I teach each year. It’s not ...

Research consistently shows that teacher effectiveness and satisfaction with our work increases when we are able to engage in deep and meaningful collaboration. Earlier this month I wrote about one ...

This post is part of a series, “The One Thing,” where I ask today’s successful leaders to identify the single most important lesson they’ve learned on a given topic. No matter your first job, entering ...

Think of your lesson as a story and your lesson plan as its script. And remember that a good plan considers the people involved in the lesson, not just the activities Lesson plans are useful not just ...

At a recent dinner party, the host asked an unexpectedly poignant question: “What is sparking joy for you?” There were about a dozen of us at the table. The answers were a mixed bag, but I’d heard ...

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Opportunity seems to be shouting from the rooftops lately. For the next two weeks I’ll be bouncing around the country, in a different city, a different keynote each day. But this weekend, I took a ...

If I were teaching a new player to play no-limit hold’em, and my goal were to get this player up to a professional level of play, how would I do it? What would my lessons look like? Let’s say I had ...