Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

On Monday I spent my first day at a district training in my new school district. It was the administrative “retreat” and as always, there was a plethora of information being tossed my way regarding district initiatives, policies, and procedures. Since it was all new to me, I left at 3pm with that feeling of […]

My GTD in Education post continues to be one of the most popular on the blog so I’ve “promoted” it to the menu bar up top.
Also, if you’ve arrived here looking for the other resources I had posted on del.icio.us and posting pictures on your blog or wiki, they’ve been moved over to my wiki […]

This is going to seem kind of offbeat, but it’s been on my mind recently. I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a while now but I didn’t know if you would still accept me.
I was a slacker in high school. Well - that may be a little unfair. Perhaps “underachiever” […]

Regular Universe readers know that I’m always looking for opportunities to increase my personal productivity. As such, I’m a big fan of Merlin Mann’s 43Folders blog. One of the best series of posts on 43F is the Inbox Zero series from a year or so ago. Most of us deal with tons of email on […]

I’m going to date myself now, but the fall of 1990 marked the start of my sophomore year of high school and the opening of a new high school in my district which I was fortunate to attend. The school, built on a reclaimed chunk of the Everglades, was ironically named Marjory Stoneman Douglas High […]

Guy Kawasaki has a great year-old post I just stumbled onto [Ten Things to Learn this School Year]. Among my favorite morsels of advice:
How to survive a meeting that’s poorly run. Unfortunately, it could be a while before you run meetings. Until then, you’ll be a hapless victim of them, so adopt these three practices […]

OK, so I’m an Apple fanatic. Not a fan boy, mind you, but I do have an affinity for technology that works well and is designed well. I stumbled on this really incredible visual history of Apple products in a couple of different places online and wanted to share it here for my fellow Apple […]

I’ve been tagged by Mike over at EdLeaderWeb who started his own “to blog or not to blog” meme as part of a presentation he’s doing on blogging for some folks in his district. Mike and I used to work in the same district back in South Florida and, like me, he left the Sunshine […]

[Cross-posted on LeaderTalk.]
If I had to choose a theme for this summer, it would be “Moving Up and Moving On.” It seems that many of us, myself included, are either moving up the ladder or moving on to new opportunities. My May post on LT focused on getting yourself settled into your new digs, but […]

Ah, summer. Many of us are enjoying some much-needed time off to regroup before we head back to work. Many of us - myself included - are tackling some of the things we just don’t have time for during the school year. Whether it’s that home improvement project you’ve been putting off, spending time with […]