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A short piece in Medium, Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time, written by Markham Heid illustrates the importance of “brain breaks” as a way to consolidate and deepen learning. He quotes Loren Frank, a neuroscience professor: The research on learning is extremely clear,” says Loren Frank, a professor at the Center for Integrative Neuroscience at…
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I am attending the Art of Coaching Annual Conference in Monterey, CA this week. Day 1 included a welcome and keynote from Elena Aguilar and two workshops: (1) authentic leadership and building trust; and (2) principles for coaching principals. In her evening keynote, Elena Aguilar spoke about the four elements we need to embrace if…
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There is an excellent series of six online articles in Harvard Business Review entitled, Poor and Unhappy. In the first article, Time for Happiness written by Ashley Whillans, the author explores the relationship between being content with the time you have to one’s degree of happiness. She writes: Time poverty exists across all economic strata,…
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Today, we lost a “wisdom thinker” of our time. Mary Oliver, nature’s poet, died today at the age of 83 from lymphoma. Having read many of her poems, I can truly say that her poetic brilliance touched my heart, caused me to wonder, stretched my thinking, and made me appreciate all that Earth has to…
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Robert Greenleaf wrote his classic essay on leadership, The Servant As Leader, in 1970. His essay served as a springboard for a new way of thinking about leadership. Unfortunately, in our world today, we see so few leaders who embrace the concept of servant leadership. Greenleaf suggests that the only authentic use of power within…


