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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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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Holding Onto Summer
I’m having a really hard time with the transition from summer to fall. Don’t get me wrong. Fall is my favorite season, and I am so...
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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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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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There’s No Time Like Summer for a Little AI
According to EdWeek, the reason most educators haven’t started using artificial intelligence (even if they know that it could be a really...
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Towards Co-Intelligence (Or How You Can Keep from being Obsolete)
When I start working with a school or an organization in the area of artificial intelligence, it’s usually because they say that they...
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Quarterbacks, Teachers, and College – Finding the Hidden Potential Everywhere
In both a piece for The New Yorker and his book Outliers, author Malcom Gladwell defined what he calls “the quarterback problem.” He...
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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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There is No New Thing Under the Sun – Including with AI
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under...
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Putting the AI into Your EducAtIonal Philosophy
I want to be very clear – you need an educational philosophy. Both you, as an educator and/or leader of an educational organization, and...
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Using AI to Redefine what Education Could (and Should) Be
I was on the committee for technology integration at my school from 2007-2010 when “bring your own device” was being explored, and we...
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Being Intentional about Intentionality
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about mindfulness and intentionality with time. While it’s pretty common (and a badge of honor) these...
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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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Is ChatGPT “Intelligent”?
With the word “intelligence” literally in its name, the question has to be asked – just how “intelligent” is AI? And what is...
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Living into Our Values
In my work with nonprofit organizations, I often hear the term “values” thrown around as part of a mission statement, or I’ll see it on a...
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It’s All About the Process: Introducing Sarah Rubinson Consulting and Contracting
No other experience has changed my approach to life more than becoming a parent. I know lots of people say something similar, and they...
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