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Last year I had the pleasure of attending my very first Scholastic Reading Summit in San Antonio, Texas. And I loved it! This year I had the honor of being asked to present at two of them. The one in San Jose, CA and the upcoming one in San Antonio, TX. These Reading Summits are…
Every one of us has walls built up in our lives. Some walls we build to keep others out. Some walls we build to make us feel protected…safe. There are times we build walls only to surround certain parts of our lives. And other times we build walls completely around us. I have walls too….
Wow, what an ending to a school year. But as my brother and mentor, Ben Gilpin always tells me, share your story and share it honestly. So here it is… I just completed my second year as a Principal. It was amazing. By far the best year of my career. There were so many great…
Who knew that less than a year ago this day would arrive. Just 11 months ago, we (Todd and Adam) connected at NAESP in Long Beach, California. Over breakfast and a blog post one morning, the #KidsDeserveIt dream was born. Now, in just over a week, our first book “Kids Deserve It!” will be released!…
A few years ago I worked under a principal who had us do a “Switch Day” one day. What is a Switch Day? Well we were given a teacher in another grade level and we had switch classes for about an hour or so to get a glimpse of what it was like. So this…
Well it’s official, my first book “Kids Deserve It!” will be released in a month or less!!! I am so stinking excited to have co-authored this book with my buddy Adam Welcome. In celebration of the book releasing soon, Adam and I are selling #KidsDeserveIt t-shirt! We’ve got SIX brand new colors and a new…
Last Friday I had the extreme pleasure of visiting the Ron Clark Academy for the second time. I can still remember every moment of my first trip to RCA three years ago. I was a 5th grader teacher, wide eyed, finally getting to meet my teacher hero. It was an incredible experience that I will…
This post was co-written between myself and Brent Clarkson. Sometimes even the smallest moments can make the biggest impact. During the first week of school in 2014, I (Brent) passed one of my students between classes and simply said, “Hey, Kyle**.” He had been in my class for a few days so I didn’t have…
I’ve written blog posts before about people I recommend following. And I haven’t written one like that in a while so I figured I throw a few more people at you, who aren’t “widely” known, but are AMAZING educators and great resources. I have always believed that you are only as good as the people…
Back in September we were having a lot of discipline issues. And through all of those discipline issues we noticed almost all of our daily focus was on the students who were making poor decisions. We had begun to completely ignore those who were making great decisions. Now, I’m not a believer in a reward…
I’m sorry. Two words. They seem so easy to say. As educators we teach children every day how and when to apologize. But as adults, those two words become more and more difficult. As a classroom teacher there were many times I had to apologize to my students. When I taught a lesson wrong, when…
There was an image I saw once of an iceberg. It had the tagline of “90% of what is happening goes on, unseen, beneath the surface”. I have found that to be true time and time again. http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/iceberg.asp Everyone is fighting a battle. Some of the battles are bloody and do quite a bit of…
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