My fifth grader is headed back to un-zoom schooling to be motivated by three-dimensional mentors and curious curators.

If you're an educator and you're heading back to some form of school — whether remote, live, or combo platter — you may have only micro-seconds to offer to social media today. And at the risk of coming across like the friend who wants one of your fries as soon as you set your plate down, I'm going to ask to borrow one so I can ask you a quick survey question — but it'll be fun, I promise!

Here’s the story of the day I had to cancel pandemic homeschool. I woke up stressed and CNN-obsessed and announced over the dad-loudspeaker to my fourth grader …

Our third entry in my homeschooling series has to do with both reading and gratitude. A few days ago my daughter and I sent the following message to an author we've recently discovered.

Here's the second installment of my new series, Home Schooling: Assist and Persist. So, after we warmed up by reading some jokes from one of our joke books — dog-ear this practice for a post coming soon — I asked my kid what rules should our school have. Her look was priceless.

Dear fellow educators: Wow. Yesterday, along with millions of families around the country, we started our pandemic homeschooling. So I thought I'd share some of our ideas and experiences here.

Need something uplifting in your day? Take three minutes and watch these two amazing women talk about the work they do helping teen moms go to college and complete their degrees so they can keep moving forward in their lives. I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the 4th Annual South Texas Early College Conference (STECC) in South Padre Island, organized by the Region One Education Service Center in Texas …

Skipping and twirling, Norway, and my Dad — that's what I'd like to talk about today. Don't worry, they fit together by the end. But here's how it starts: I told my ten-year-old daughter that she had to pick a team sport to join.

I start out by saying, "I wish I'd been taught in school the way Special Educators approach their work every day. And not just in kindergarten or third grade — I wish I'd been taught that way in college, too." I'm talking about the way Special Educators take on so many different roles: acting not just as instructors, but as mentors, mind-coaches, and multi-sensory mix-masters of engagement. And so much more. I'm delivering my keynote for a meeting of the New Hampshire Association of Special Education Administrators (NHASEA).

What do pro basketball player Kevin Love and pro football player The Gronk have in common with actor John Hamm and Kristen Bell (aka Veronica Mars)? No, they're not launching a new morning talk show called "Love Gronk Hamm Bell," although I'd probably watch that. But they are all talking about something important — working to dispel the stigma around mental health care.

Cleveland does rock when it comes it comes to a number of things, especially nurturing entrepreneurship. I recently had the honor of giving the keynote at the 10-year celebration of the JumpStart Higher Ed Collaboration Council. What's that, you ask? Well, let me explain it like this. Imagine that you're in the business of teaching entrepreneurship to college students …

This past Sunday I did a keynote presentation for Scholastic at their national sales meeting here in Chicago. It was an exciting gig to do: Scholastic books were in every classroom even when I was a little kid decades ago (its roots go back to 1920), and Scholastic as an organization continues to be a central player in guiding our nation's schools toward increasing literacy of all kinds through publishing, book clubs, writing awards, you name it.

Judging by the sheer atmospheric density of the charcoal grill smoke here in Chicago, it's almost August. And that means I'm gearing up for my busiest time of year: Back-to-School season! This year i'm kicking things off with a tongue-twisting tour of tumbleweed-free towns in Texas …

Last week I had the honor of performing at one of the largest events on my calendar, doing my education keynote at the SDE (Staff Development for Educators) National Conference for 5,500+ teachers in Las Vegas. It's a nationwide gathering for education professionals to refine skills, stay current, and brush up on the latest developments.