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Teaching in a ChatGPT World

What if ChatGPT can prompt educators to make it impossible to cheat AND to improve … Read More

How to Stop Avoiding Deep Thinking

Imagine yourself an Emily Dickinson, a thousand poems flowing from your pen over only half … Read More

Why Your Kid Hates School

When you close your eyes and think of your child as a toddler, you remember … Read More

Why Your Mind Needs a Tech Break

Do you ever feel pulled in a thousand directions? Unfocused? Like you just can’t think … Read More

How Remote Work Threatens Innovation and How to Fix It

On my first visit to a remnant prairie, I came across an exquisite spider web, … Read More

The Creative Strengths Spotter in Middle School: Prepared for Sock-cess

Guest post by Greg McDonough. Greg is the innovation space coordinator at Lake Forest Country … Read More

Consider the Outliers to Increase Team Effectiveness

As humans, we tend to gravitate toward those who are most like us, to those … Read More

5 Steps to a Successful Hybrid Work Model

How are you feeling about returning to the office or the classroom? Apprehensive, stressed, or … Read More

How to Get Your Team Excited About In-Person Work

After nearly a year and a half of virtual work, leaders are finding out that … Read More

Think Hybrid: Why Fully Remote Work Is Not Sustainable

Fully remote work was possible in our world’s recent short-term emergency, but is it sustainable … Read More

How to Have Better Group Conversations

Summer cookouts, concerts, and gatherings at the beach are back. Graduation celebrations, weddings, and funerals … Read More

When a Unanimous Yes is the Inertia of No

It was a perfect start-of-summer day: warm, sunny, with just enough breeze. I was walking … Read More

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