Recently, a friend shared this story of an influential 19-year old entrepreneur in the UK: Getting around rules to start a business in my teens. In the article, we learn the story of Ben Towers. Aged 11, I was challenged by a family friend to build her a website. This was then the start of […]

One of the things I’ve come to believe over the past year is that agency is at the heart of powerful learning. It is the defining element of what we describe as learner-centered. Agency distinguishes learner-centered environments from school-centered. Out of this belief has developed a natural curiosity about agency and formal leadership. If we […]

The past month has been a time filled with lots of opportunities to learn and reflect on the work we are doing in Salisbury Township School District. I’ve not only been kindling my curiosity through reading, but have attended Education Reimagined’s Pioneer Lab Training, the AASA Legislative Advocacy Conference, the AASA National Superintendent Certification Program, […]

As we think about transformation of the education system, it’s important that we scan the current landscape but also “patrol the border between now and next” to best understand the changes that will ultimately disrupt our world as we know it, including the way we educate and learn. While I’ve previously written (and even put […]

Education is filled with its fair share of jargon: personalized learning, digital transformation, digital leadership, etc. As practitioners in the field, we will often seek out definitions when we need to quickly make sense of complex terminology. You’ve probably heard about a term like personalized learning, “We need a definition of that.” One of my […]

A year ago, I shared a post describing a year of learning my colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, and I engaged in through a series of podcasts at TLTalkRadio. It was such a valuable and transformative learning experience as we were working with stakeholders at the time to create pockets of innovation and a vision for systemic […]