“If you keeping looking backwards your are going to trip and fall or walk into a wall!” – Michael O’Shaughnessy (variation based on Gucci Mane and Steve Harvey) Forward Momentum: Avoiding the Trip, the Fall, and the Wall We’ve all been there, mentally stuck in rewind. Perhaps it’s a past decision we can’t shake, a
“If you want something you’ve never had you have to be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Steve Maraboli The Currency of Courage: Investing in the Unknown Have you ever felt that familiar pull toward something new, something that promises growth, but then a tiny voice whispers about the comfort of the familiar?
Have you ever found yourself hunched over a spreadsheet, staring at a sea of student data, desperately needing to pull out specific individuals? It’s a common scenario in education, isn’t it? Whether you’re trying to identify students for an intervention, a special program, or just to send out a targeted communication, the manual scroll-and-select method
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein Beyond the Comfort of Routine: Why “If It Ain’t Broke” Holds Us Back Have you ever found yourself in the familiar comfort of routine, perhaps even murmuring, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”? It’s a tempting mantra, one that promises
“Put your own oxygen mask on first.” – Flight Attendants everywhere! The Unseen Drain on Our Reserves If you’ve spent more than a day in a K-12 classroom, a school office, or navigating the labyrinthine halls of educational administration, you know the feeling. It’s that unique blend of exhilaration and utter exhaustion, often within the
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” — Often attributed to Marcus Aurelius (and close to the spirit of the Cynic philosopher Monimus) We live in a world where information is constant, but clarity is rare. You’ve likely heard the quote above cited as
If you would have told 16-year-old me—the one hunched over a keyboard typing 10 PRINT “HELLO” and 20 GOTO 10 in BASIC—that I’d eventually be presenting at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference (OETC), I probably would’ve asked if we had flying cars yet. (Actually, since OETC didn’t even exist back then, I probably would have
“And the young warrior asked his grandfather, “Which wolf wins?” His grandfather smiled and simply said, “The one you feed.” — Cherokee Story Have you ever felt an internal battle raging in your mind? That constant, exhausting tension between what you should and shouldn’t do; between right and wrong, good and evil? We’ve all been
