Branding may be a new term to your repertoire, but it’s often used to describe how to market yourself for the purpose of any important opportunity you desire to achieve. Branding simply means knowing yourself well from every perspective, in every facet, so you can confidently and competently promote yourself successfully… read more
February is CTE Month®, honoring the administrators, teachers, counselors and other professionals who help students and adults identify career goals and make the educational and training plans to reach them… read more
A recent opinion piece in the New York Times posits a potentially heretical idea: that the premise of our educational system, of promoting college attendance to all students, is misguided. The author’s assertion is that our society spends too much money on students who attend college and not enough on everyone else… read more
One of the obvious benefits of a digital world is instant access to news and current events. We are all set adrift on this sea of information , which also serves as the backdrop for those who walk into every school classroom in the morning. Connecting current events with classroom lesson plans… read more
Surprisingly, many of the young adults I meet in the 25 to 35 age group are underemployed, given their education and experience. Many are still in the jobs they accepted right out of college and often share that they work more than one job to survive. I am on a crusade to make this change! read more
May 7-11 is National Teacher Appreciation Week. Going beyond #RedforEd to show teacher appreciation and make a change… read more
Most of us don’t necessarily train to deal with adversity the way high-level athletes do. Nevertheless, if we go through the conscious process of dealing with failure and working through it, we can, in most cases, bounce back and move forward within a reasonable amount of time… read more
When we think of postsecondary institutions, we usually have our own 4-year state institutions in mind. What many don’t understand is that our country’s community colleges serve another 12.7 million students[i] at the same time…nearly 50% of all college-going students. And community colleges typically serve these students with half the annual budget per student than their 4-year counterparts… read more
New Year’s is always a time when we set new goals, clean out old thinking and start new. It’s also a time when some new reading can help to shift thinking to the future. There’s lots to choose from! To help, we have a couple of fascinating books to recommend that are sure to present some new perspectives… read more
Every day we are bombarded with examples of human behavior through media and other sources. An awareness of the degrees of variance in personal, corporate and political integrity is critical, so sharpen your skills of discernment and be prepared… read more