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When Students Use AI and Teachers Don’t: A Leadership Problem, Not a Generational One
Everyone’s talking about how AI is changing education, but they’re mostly asking the wrong question. It’s not “Will AI replace teachers?”...
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You Gave Teachers AI Tools. Why Aren’t They Using Them?
You did it. You created an AI task force. You ran a professional learning session. You set up ChatGPT accounts and maybe even shared a...
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Climbing Mountains…For What?
As a native Coloradan, I’ve always loved the mountains. And I love hiking in the mountains. But I’ve come to realize that loving the...
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Resetting for Excellence: The Choice to Change
Change is often seen as something forced upon us—a reaction to crisis, failure, or necessity. But what if change wasn’t just about...
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Pursuit over Perfectionism: Excellence in Jewish Day Schools
Excellence is a tricky word. It sounds aspirational, but it can also feel intimidating. Too often, we associate it with perfection – a...
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From Consumers to Stakeholders: Strengthening the Future of Jewish Day Schools
Too often, we talk about Jewish day schools in purely transactional terms—tuition is paid, services are rendered, and parents assess...
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AI in Education and Beyond: Why School Leaders Are the Real MVPs of the AI Revolution
Let’s address the robot in the room: Artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction. It’s here, it’s everywhere, and it’s shaking...
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The Power of the "Magic Third": Unlocking Transformational Change in Jewish Day Schools
In Jewish day schools and organizations, we are accustomed to thinking in terms of the whole: whole organization improvement, whole-child...
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Mid-Year Check-In: How Friction Can Fuel Your Success
It's about this time of year that I start to get reflective (full disclosure: I'm pretty reflective year-round...just especially...
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Friction: The Leadership Tool You Didn't Know You Needed
When you think of friction, you might picture something that slows us down—think of dragging furniture across carpet or hitting every red...
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Harnessing AI in Education: How School Leaders Can Drive Innovation
In recent months, it has become increasingly clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves across various industries, and...
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Thriving Together: The Power of Communication in Driving Process Forward
I say that my work is about empowering excellence and innovation in Jewish education, and that’s true. It’s the driving force behind...
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Thriving by Design: The Importance of Process and Communication in Successful Change
At first glance, the different projects I take on might seem varied, even unrelated. My current project load includes the following:...
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Creating Cultures of Growth and Coaching
When you think about a coach, what do you picture? Coming off a season of summer baseball, my first thought goes to the parent volunteers...
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Lead the Way: Focusing on Lead Indicators to Achieve Excellence This School Year
As someone who has spent most of my professional career working with a school-year/academic calendar, there is just something about...
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Using the Summer to Set the Tone for the Year
Summer is a weird time for those of us who follow an academic calendar. For much of the school year, we keep a running list of the things...
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What is the Future of Education? And Does it Even Matter?
I was invited to an event, which (sadly) I cannot attend, called, “What Might Education Look Like in 2040?” I love events like this....
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Ethical Integration of AI: Asking all the Questions
I like to ask a lot of questions. One of my core values is curiosity, and I lean into that heavily, believing that embodying flexibility...
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The Power of the (Intentional) Present
I spent the first two weeks of April in a whirlwind of all of the things – taking my daughter to Dallas for Taylor Swift, taking all four...
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Taylor Swift, Passover, and the Power of Moments
There’s a quote from the 2001 movie Riding in Cars with Boys that I will always remember – “One day can change your life. One day can...
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