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How To Pick Impact Over Approval
During last Sunday’s #b2kcoach #Periscope broadcast, I paraphrased a sentiment from Michael Port (@michaelport) that I heard during a Good Life Project interview. During the interview, Michael Port...
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It’s Time to Flip Behavior Cards and Charts to STOP!
At B2K, we have an amazing team, whose combined years of experience as teachers, parents, and specialists is hard to quantify. We have experience working with children of all ages and abilities,...
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Should’ve, Would’ve, Could’ve…Then Do!
My mom and I are famous for starting stories with, “I should have.” So much so, that it became our habit to respond to one another by saying, “Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve!” We said this phrase so...
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2 Highly Effective Ways to Deliver Feedback Without Playing the Shame and...
The other day, Ashley Lyons (@AshleyNLyons) and I took a stand that “publicly tracking children’s behavior from a deficit orientation is ineffective, unethical, and indeed, harmful.“ We also took a...
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LOL! Your #Gobbledygook is Impactful!
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about the words we use, and how much of our communication is filled with jargon. By jargon, I don’t just mean when we use big words or technical words....
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Who Wants A Magic Wand To Get Kids To Regulate?
Guess what? There is no magic required when it comes to helping kids learn to self-regulate… That said, we know it may feel like you need to be a sorcerer as you think about helping children...
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The ABCs Of Striving For Compassion Not Compliance
What is compassion and how do you see it fitting into your work, your life, and your efforts to sustain change? Dr. Richard Boyatzis (@RBoyatzis) and Dr. Annie McKee (@anniemckee) define compassion...
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How To Reboot The Home And School Connection
Ever feel like the connection between home, school, and the community is constantly buffering? These “connections” can be challenging…particularly given time constraints, language barriers, and...
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Do You Have The Courage To Change “The System”?
Whenever I return home from training and coaching, I try and find time to reflect upon the stories shared by early interventionists, early childhood providers, teachers, and families. This week, as...
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How Are We The Same And Different? Why Finding Answers To Both Is Important!
Today we come back to our “High Five for Friendships” conversation to discuss an idea that is sometimes the trickiest to wrap our minds around… Reinforce Friendships BETWEEN Children On the...
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Pushing Back Against High-Stakes Testing One Assessment At A Time
In collaboration with Dr. R. Christopher Swanson from Johns Hopkins University, I made a video series on authentic assessment practice in early childhood. The videos were created for Maryland Learning...
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Podcast 4: Five Courageous Steps to Conversations that Change Education
In this Pre-K Teach & Play podcast episode, I offer five alternatives to an approach to early childhood assessment, which tends to favor fear, punishment, and standardized testing. The alternatives...
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8 Simple Strategies to Increase Emotional Vocabulary
Emotional vocabulary, like any other types of vocabulary words, can be taught. Educators and parents have a number of evidence-based strategies they can use—right at their fingertips. This blog...
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Podcast 5: What’s Lurking In The Classroom That’s Keeping You From Being More...
I love visiting pre-K classrooms and watching amazing brain architects hard at work, but was fed up with all the clutter in classrooms, as well as toys and materials so broken and boring they hadn’t...
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Podcast 6: A Map to the Stars
Serving groups of children with diverse abilities just got a bit more doable. Reach for the Stars (RFTS), Planning for the Future has been revised and it is better than ever. Authors, Diane and...
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Podcast 7: Teaching Self-Regulation Old School Style
We all wish it were easier right? Helping children during the middle of a meltdown! What we wouldn’t give for a magic wand or on-demand wizard who could help prevent outbursts and help children...
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Five Things Every Summer Vacation Should Include
Have you ever wondered…why you need a vacation from your vacation? In today’s episode my goal is to help unlock a secret to how you can feel renewed, with or without and vacation…and no, it doesn’t...
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Leadership Renewal Collection: Solutions For Sustaining Your Efficacy
In podcast episode #8, I shared rationale for needing to do more than rest if you want to sustain your efficacy as a leader. I also provided 5 solutions and over 100 ways to renew! Here are the...
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Podcast #9: How to save time, energy, and money using this proven...
No one wants to think about delivering PD to students, staff, or colleagues, who are rolling their eyes, shaking their heads, and sighing heavily…. No one wants to offer PD with the knowledge that it...
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Podcast #10: Discovering What Comes Before Counting
Does the following scenario sound familiar? You’re playing with a child who has been coming to preschool for the last two years, and when you ask, “How many are there?”…the child always says…2, 3, 5,...
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