Education
My Favorite Book This Year
I know, I know. We are less than four months into 2018. But I have already enjoyed several books that have marked me. One of them—I’d like to talk about today. Daniel Pink just released his latest book called, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. I’ve enjoyed each of Dan Pink’s best-selling books, but…
Continue ReadingOne Secret to Bringing Out the Best in Students
I recently met with my friend, Zach Thomas, to talk about his story. Not long ago, he released a book called, Leader Farming. He compares good leaders to farmers who constantly cultivate the people under their care as potential leaders. He reminded me that much of what he does he learned at West Point. You…
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Students Passion—Not Teach for the Test
Last month, I got to speak to the Cobb Education Consortium. It was filled with educators and administrators (from K-12 and higher education) who were chosen from Cobb County to be a part of a leader development process over a year’s time. That day, I met Monica Alicea, a leader with a PhD, who has…
Continue ReadingA Game Plan to Prepare Yourself and Your Child to Head Off to College
Over the next six months, some of your kids will be on a path from childhood to adulthood. They’ll be graduating from high school and entering either college or a career. It is often difficult for both the student and the parent. Here are some “travel metaphors” to guide your conversations and some new helpful…
Continue ReadingYale’s Most Popular Class Ever and What We Can Learn from It
A few years ago, psychology professor, Laurie Santos, proposed a new elective class at Yale University. She believed it would be a helpful and relevant course for students. No one had any idea how popular it would become. Are you ready to hear the subject? It’s a class on happiness. She tries to teach students…
Continue ReadingOur Narrative: One Variable to Reduce Student Stress
In the final week of January—our launch into a new year—Americans again felt the anguish of a school shooting. A 15-year-old boy shot several of his peers, killing two and wounding more than a dozen others at a rural Kentucky high school. That attack, the third at or near a U.S. school in just three…
Continue ReadingFive Action Steps to Prevent Teens from Becoming Violent
By now, we’ve all heard about and grieved over the school shooting last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that took 17 lives. It was horrific. Once again, the pattern was similar to many past school shootings: The perpetrator was a young male. The gun was an AR-15 rifle. His parents were unable to…
Continue ReadingHow Is Digital Text Affecting Student Comprehension?
Today, we hear from Andrew McPeak. Andrew is a next gen researcher, speaker, and author for Growing Leaders. A recent article from the National Education Association explored the question of whether or not digital reading is equal to reading in print. Their findings were quite telling. “While digital reading ‘is part and parcel of living and learning in…
Continue ReadingAre Free College Classes Good News or Bad News?
Have you heard the news? A growing number of communities across the U.S. are now offering free college tuition to students. In reaction to rising higher education costs, as well as education budget cuts, 200 campus locations are providing some form of tuition-free community college education, hoping that the return on investment will boost their…
Continue ReadingFive Strategies to Prevent Gen Z from Being a Distracted Generation
Ah, we’re entering Oscar season again, where filmmakers and performers are awarded by the Academy for their work. It reminds me of what happened last year. Do you remember the fiasco that happened a year ago? It was at the 2017 Oscar Awards that one of the biggest mistakes in its history was made. The…
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