Nicholas Rapp is quitting his job to drive around the world. His trip will start and end in New York with lots of adventure in between. The article details how he planned for his trip and the many details he had to consider, such as health care in the case of an emergency. Rapp will [...]

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I recently attended a two-day event entitled “Managing Change,” which is the second in a three-part series collectively known as the “Balanced Leadership Academy.”  While I learned much about the topic of change, the most significant learning for me occurred relative to the idea of “magnitude of change.”  Generally speaking, there are two types of perceptions of change:  that which carries first-order [...]

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It starts with good intentions. We want our students to learn. We want them to be better writers and readers and communicators. We want to be able to open them up to a world that has so much language to offer, a world of dialogue to which they can add their own unique voices. That’s [...]

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Yesterday I attended the South Dakota Association for Gifted Children Conference (SD-AGC) held in Pierre. A couple of things about this conference caused me to reflect. The last conference was held in 2000. In the late 1990’s the SD-AGC boasted over 300 members and actively supported administrators, parents, teachers and students. As a past president [...]

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Paradox. We can’t avoid it—in the classroom or in life. If you’ve read any Parker Palmer, you know that he talks about the necessity of standing in the “tragic gap” of paradox, holding seeming contradictions with the patience to “live into the questions” rather than simply jump to a glib resolution of the tension. Too [...]

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As many of you have already heard, Verizon and Google have made an alliance! This is good news for Verizon Thinkfinity also!  This alliance will allow all lovers of the Thinkfinity site to find even greater value. The first step is to register in MyThinkfinity which is a simple link at the top right corner [...]

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I’m working on a project in Lander WY dealing with Formative Assessment, or as they say over the pond, “Assessment For Learning.” One of the things that struck me like a baseball in the temple was that it really does make a difference IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING whether you are operating under a set [...]

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This video is a 16 minute segment from his featured presentation at the Indian Education and Dropout Prevention Summit, held in Rapid City from September 27 – 29.

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