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Marketing, Manipulations and True Classroom Leadership
Earlier this fall I finished reading Simon Sinek’s Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Besides being inspired and challenged in my own leadership,…
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Writing on Purpose: How Ought We to Instruct Young Writers?
To teach writing is to teach an art form. It takes lots and lots of practice to write well. The way we think about writing can sometimes limit…
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The Search for Happiness, Part 2: The Way of Wisdom
In my previous blog, I examined how modern research, particularly through the avenue of positive psychology, confirms some of Aristotle’s insights about human beings and the well-lived life.…
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The Flow of Thought, Part 5: The Play of Words
“Words, words, words.” Such was the enigmatic reply of Hamlet to Polonius’ question, “What do you read, my lord?” And as always, Hamlet’s feigned madness displays the ironical…
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Habit Formation: You, Your Plastic Mind, and Your Internet
Shallow. Our brains are shallow. Or at least they have become shallow. This is the point Nicholas Carr drives home in his book The Shallows, where he examined…
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In Search of Happiness, Part 1: The Road of Virtue
In 1952, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, an Ohio-born pastor who went on to minister for fifty-two years in New York City, published a book that would go on…
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