In the video, Friedman’s Theory of Differentiated Leadership Made Simple, Dr. Jonathan Camp discusses the book, A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedman. This concept of differentiated leadership was new to me, but I instantly felt connected to what was being discussed. In the video, effective leadership…

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, and Sean Covey (2016) states one limiting factor to reaching your goal is the day-to-day whirlwind of work, or your ‘day job’. This whirlwind refers to the tasks that must…

In the book Influencer by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny, the authors point out six sources of influence that must be followed in order to make a change in a person’s behavior: personal motivation, personal ability, social motivation, social ability, structural motivation and structural ability…

In the TED talk, Three Myths of Behavior Change – What You Think You Know That You Don’t, Jenni Cross points out that our “greatest adversary” is common sense (2013). When she first says this, I felt myself become taken back a bit. Why did…

When I think about all the times ‘change’ has been promoted in the education environment I’ve been in, it’s always been geared towards our minds. Administration usually has a great idea they want to implement into the school or into our classrooms, but the push…