Guest Thinkers

If you’d like to know what a good statewide 21st century school leadership development program looks like, have we got a podcast for you! This morning we had Episode 6 […]

Hmmm, let’s see… A learning institute in Manchester, New Hampshire in July. Well, Manchester routinely appears on lists of best places to live. It’s in New England, which will be […]

Thanks to instructions from the kind folks at Mashable, this blog is now available in a Kindle edition. I think you now have at least four different ways to connect […]

I just finished reading The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Dr. Pietra Rivoli, Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. It was quite an interesting book. Here are […]

After much deliberation, I’ve decided to do another online summer book club. I’m supposed to be taking the summer off but last year’s discussion of Influencer: The Power to Change […]

Two girls post a cartoon video on YouTube that depict “The Top 6 ways to Kill Piper!” Piper is an elementary school classmate of theirs at Elk Plain School in Spanaway, Washington. […]

After a recent presentation here in Iowa that included some discussion of Twitter, a superintendent came up to me and said, “Okay, I’m in. But how will I find people […]

Continuing the theme of my last post, how great would it be if every school, district, or university Twitter feed was in one place? The aggregated posts would give us a sense of […]

Chuck Heinlein, Director of the Leadership Center for 21st Century Schools at the West Virginia Department of Education, will be our guest tomorrow on the 4 Guys Talking podcast. Chuck […]

I’m trying to get a handle on who’s reading Dangerously Irrelevant (it’s not as easy as you might think). So I thought the best way would be to just ask! […]

Here are my top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the TED presentations that I think are most likely to interest, […]

Here are my top 10 2008 K12 Online Conference podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the K12 Online presentations that I think are most likely to interest, […]

This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… LeaderTalk At LeaderTalk, Barbara Barreda proposed that we “join our teachers in the ritual of closing […]

Here’s a recent Twitter conversation that I had, followed by some additional thoughts… Okay, Russ, I’ll bite. How should it be? Well, of course, in an ideal world educational leadership […]

Technology & Learning has a great graphic in the May issue of its magazine that highlights the features that secondary students would like to see in electronic textbooks [click on […]

Thanks to Wes Fryer, I found this new video from Dr. Stephen Heppell on 21st century schools. Happy viewing! 

I often hear educators say… We could be teaching differently if it weren’t for ‘the tests.’ Or… We could do a better job of meeting our students’ needs if it […]

Seth Godin’slatest talk at TED is now available. In his presentation, he talks about leadership, change, group action, and other ideas from his newest book, Tribes. Here is perhaps my […]

I was delighted to see the announcement from the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) that it is hosting a summit in July on technology leadership issues. AASA is the […]

A couple of weeks ago I launched an edublogger/eduTwitterer cookbook, BlogTweetCook.org. At the time, I said I didn’t know if it was a great idea or a dumb one. Well, […]

Here’s how we’re doing at collectively creating a list of model 21st century schools that are doing a nice job of infusing 21st century skills, digital technologies, problem- or inquiry-based […]

Those of you who read me regularly may recall my April 24 post that highlighted some parent complaints about the new elementary school schedule that was proposed by my school district’s […]

I’m getting excited for NECC 2009. Just a few more weeks and I’ll be griping about the hot, muggy weather in my hometown of Washington, D.C. I can’t wait! Those […]

Last night I ran across a series of PowerPoint tips from Wendy Russell that I thought were worth sharing… 1. Start creating your presentations in widescreen format I hadn’t really […]

If I didn’t subscribe to Assorted Stuff, I’d miss brilliant, hysterical stuff like this: A crappy copy should work just fine Be sure to watch the MPAA’s video and read […]

Michael Port says… n n The time has come. We cannot wait anymore. For years, we have hidden behind our own small thoughts or let ourselves be held back by […]

I’m getting more requests to come speak to groups. Here are 8 items that are indispensable to me as a presenter (click on each image for a larger version)… 1. Presentation remote […]

Here are two presentations by Dr. Richard Miller, Chair of the English Department at Rutgers University, that are well worth any university instructor’s time to watch. The Future Is Now: […]

Michael Port says… We will be ridiculed for declaring ourselves to be big thinkers. To declare anything is to take a chance, to put ourselves on the line, to risk […]

This morning we had Episode 5 of 4 Guys Talking, the new ‘talk radio’ podcast series from CASTLE. We spent almost the entire time talking about university educational leadership preparation programs. n Our […]