Does your district have a high chronic absence rate? Well, it turns out that that rate may be inflated due to problems with accounting accuracy.
How to serve ice cream to your kids and other negotiation strategies
Every day we are faced with the potential for conflict. Lose-lose battles are unnecessary, if the parties have access to simple negotiation strategies.
Resilience in three steps: endure, adapt & thrive
No one escapes the cruel vagaries of life. When confronted by overwhelming challenge, seek resilience: endure, adapt and thrive.
New York’s ESSA accountability system nightmare
New York’s implementation of the ESSA accountability system has produced a bureaucratic quagmire worthy of Orwell, Dickens or Kafka.
Could ranked-choice voting help improve our democracy?
Maine’s 2018 congressional election provides tantalizing evidence that ranked choice voting could help improve our democracy.
Can groups make better decisions than smart individuals?
Research at MIT has identified three factors that correlate to a group’s collective intelligence.
Be the hero of your own story
Will you emerge from an unexpected trial with regret or satisfaction? To be the hero of your own story, anticipate these inevitable tests. Readiness is all.
No, the world is not going to hell in a handbasket
The kindness of Claudia and Federico, the proprietors of the B&B Posada Karut Josh in El Calafate, Argentina, has compelled me to abandon my growing cynicism about the state of the world.
94 year old Marcel Remy will inspire you
94 year old mountain climber Marcel Remy will inspire you as he scales the Le Miroir d’Argentine, a 1500′ high, mile-long limestone face in the Swiss Alps.
Day hiking in Torres del Paine National Park
We recently spent a week day hiking Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, Patagonia.