I often think of a question posed by Robert H. Schuller: “What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” How liberating it would be...

At your next rehearsal, try using a nonverbal signal to represent something you want students to do, or not to do. Then, for the first few times you use...

I think sometimes (for me, more often than not!) the best way to get students to where we want them to be is to envision them there.  And then use what is...

Here is a bit of food for thought:  President Dwight D. Eisenhower defined leadership as “the art of getting someone else to do something you want done...

As we start this new school year, it may serve us all well to remember that sometimes it is less about our students believing they can do what’s ahead,...

Amazing, isn’t it? Have you ever really thought about what you do every day? What you teach, the lives you change, the destinies you help shape, all from...

The true test of our teaching – the real measure of our time with our students – can be summed up in the words of Ann Landers when she said, "It is not what you do...

Ralph Waldo Emerson so poignantly stated that, "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Peter Loel Boonshaft, Director...

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." Let’s vow not to be interrupted, or to be the one interrupting! It is as...