I have asked my workforce development colleagues to invest in the educator workforce for years. They always tell me, "we don't do teacher...

This Scary Mommy piece (~5 min read) is my first ever to go viral. Within hours of it being online, people shared the article hundreds of...

A few months ago, educators started telling me about the parent pushback they were getting on their social emotional learning lessons and...

This past year, schools have been ground zero for America's culture wars. My latest piece in EdSurge (~5 min. read) talks about what that...

This ~5 min piece for Getting Smart illuminates the tension between what it takes to keep schools open in Covid times and what it takes...

This ~5 min EdSurge opinion piece is a plea to education leaders to future shock-proof our schools. It is something cities and...

In this ~1 hour-long episode of Teaching and Learning: Theory v Practice with Dr. Amy and Dr. Joi, I dig in deep with education...

A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with Amy Baron from Convergent Learning for her podcast, Upskilled, an Ed Tech Podcast. You can listen...

Last week, I sat down with Veronica Goodman, Director of Social Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), to talk about Making It...

Get a sneak peek at what happened in May on my virtual (basement) book tour. Pro tips at the end on how to launch a book in a pandemic.

Last week, I got to catch up with Josh Reppun on his podcast, What School Could Be in Hawaii. Josh has quickly become one of my favorite...

I met Karen Pittman, founder, and CEO of the Forum for Youth Investment, when she spoke at a Washington University social work school...

On this podcast with the New Hampshire ASCD affiliate, I talk with NHASCD executive director Jan Yost and my longtime friend, Kim Carter,...

In this ~30 min. EdSurge podcast, I talk to senior editor, Jeff Young, about the competencies that count in the real world. We start with...

On this guest blog for the Skillman Foundation in Detroit, I explore why education and youth development must expand horizons, looking...

After two years of laboring, Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World was born yesterday. I sat down with Josh Reppun, host...

A few days ago, I connected with Michael Horn to talk about Making It and what the many accelerated and disruptive changes around us mean...

I had such fun joining Tom Vander Ark on his "Getting Smart" podcast, which aired earlier this week. I'm a longtime fan of Tom and his...

I always planned to start a new opinion series before the release of Making It, but I didn't know where to start. And then January 6...

In this 2018 opinion piece for YouthToday, I dig into the 10 competencies that we use the most in adulthood. These are the habits and...