Books I finished reading (or rereading) in June 2025... Implementing Project Based Learning in Early Childhood, Sara Lev, Amanda Clark, & Erin Starkey (education) The First Book of Swords, Fred ...

[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Tim Boyle, principal of Science Leadership Academy Middle School ...

[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Amie McElroy, elementary school director at STEM School in ...

[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Recently I had the opportunity to appear on the Education Matters podcast with Jason Buccheri. Jason was an ...

[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Adam Phyall and Carl Hooker were kind (brave? dumb?) enough to invite me onto their Future Ready Schools ...

[I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up!] Krista Leh was kind enough to invite me on her SEL in EDU podcast back in February. Krista is a ...

Julian Vasquez Heilig has a powerful post over at Cloaking Inequity. Here are a few teaser paragraphs: Many of today’s anti-public education activists are not motivated by a desire to improve learning ...

Spring 2025 Commencement was a good one. I was selected to be a Faculty Marshal again, which was super fun. And I got to say a final farewell to three amazing doctoral students and an awesome ...

Chris Lehmann on educational colonialism If we're not irrelevant, what are we? 10 building blocks for the future of schools If you want to graduate, pass the test or grovel to… Congratulations, Drs.

Here is an excerpt from today’s New York Times article, How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 students Into the A.I. Future: Her class at Southwest Miami Senior High School had already read about John ...

I have read or revisited a number of education books in recent years as I’ve been visiting innovative, deeper learning schools all around the world. I could recommend many, but I keep returning to How ...

I officially wrapped up all of my school visits for my Deeper Learning in Elementary and Middle Schools (DLEMS) book project last week. I have seen some incredible schools the past two years and am ...