August 20, 2015
Tony Mendez Awarded Presidential Challenge Coin From Barack Obama
By Tony & Jonna Mendez
Author and Subject of Oscar Best Picture "Argo", retired CIA Officer
“Tony Mendez received this Presidential challenge coin from Barack Obama when visiting the White House. While he was not there alone - he visited with about 20 other people...
August 19, 2015
The Power of a Positive Educator
When I think about the teachers who made a difference in my life I realize they were all positive. Mrs. Liota smiled every day and made me feel loved. Coach Caiazza believed in...
August 18, 2015
5 Traits Of Creative Leaders (and How to Become One)
BECOMING A LEADER TAKES COURAGE AS WELL AS CREATIVITY. AND CREATIVITY TAKES PRACTICE
Being a leader is difficult. That’s why most of us end up taking direction from others...
August 17, 2015
Kory's Story | The Teacher Salary Project
The pinnacle of a teacher's career is to change students' lives by empowering them with knowledge and life skills. What if a teacher who pours into their students' lives...
August 16, 2015
How to Go to Bed Tonight Happier (and Feeling Richer)
Seeing Steve Jobs's life slip away was breathtaking, but the lessons offered can be life changing. It struck me as strange that I’d never seen him happier more often than in...
August 15, 2015
Fired-Up for the New School Year
You wonder where your summer went? Me, too! If you’re a parent, you probably devoted endless hours shuttling your kids to different activities. I know my wife feels like the...
August 13, 2015
Plan ahead -- way ahead -- for creative kids parties
Thanks to Pinterest and its endless inspiration, planning a fun kids birthday party is easier than it used to be. However, this access to thousands of ideas and DIY tutorials...
August 13, 2015
Executive Coaching High Achievers: Do People Ever Really Change?
A year before his death, Steve Jobs told me, with intentional irony, that one of the only things that ever got him to consider a behavior change was facing his own mortality....
August 12, 2015
The Grapes of Resistance
The trail held treasures for those willing to stop and look. Yet, the most delicious fruit was within reach - but untouched. Most were willing to comfortably pick low-hanging...
August 06, 2015
Hackers are the internet's immune system.
There is a spotlight on cybersecurity like there hasn’t been in quite a while. Report after report streams into the public eye about the vulnerability of embedded health...
August 03, 2015
Why I Let Him Beat Me
I was 16, an honor student, and hung around the nerdy girls. He was 17, charming, and one of the cutest boys I’d ever met. I was smitten.
He knew how to say just the...
August 03, 2015
Head Held High
I've always prided myself in the fact that when I blog I try to share a real and honest portrayal of education and who I am. I've been passionate about sharing the good as well...
