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Re-Statement of Purpose: Why I Blog


Today marks exactly 4 1/2 years since I wrote my first blog post here at Apace of Change.  In it, I laid out my initial intentions for this blog: …I want to engage with other educators – not just teachers, but administrators, psychologists, LDTCs, and others in the education field – as to uses for [...]

Habits of Mind: Empathy


This post is part of a series on sixteen “Habits of Mind” put forth by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick as being “necessary for success in school, work, and life” (Costa & Kallick, 2010, p. 212). Listening with understanding and empathy: Understand others! Devoting mental energy to another person’s thoughts and ideas; holding in [...]

Shifting My Sharing


Despite the periodic blog posts heralding the death of RSS, I remain a huge fan of the syndication format (not familiar with RSS?  Check the wiki).  I have been an avid user of Google Reader for nearly five years now, and I use it daily to aggregate and read, at last count, nearly 200 blogs, [...]

This Is A Call: Distributed Leadership


Happy New Year! As my doctoral program rolls right along, I am currently in the throes of the literature review section of my dissertation.  After some going back and forth between potential topics, I have decided to focus my dissertation on the theory of distributed leadership. I’m still in the very early stages of the [...]

Assistive Technology: What Every Educator Needs to Know


Full disclosure: The author of this reference guide sent me an unsolicited complimentary copy in 2010.  There was never any discussion of me mentioning it on my blog, nor did I receive any compensation for the following post. Assistive technology (AT) can be a daunting topic for some educators to wrap their collective heads around. [...]