My wife and I just returned home from an amazing week in gorgeous Tucson, Arizona. Unlike many places visited, it was easy to come up with many more than ten planning lessons from this beautiful desert oasis. While we adore Tucson, it, like most large cities, has some issues to overcome. These are included in…
Some might be wondering where the heck Page, Arizona is located and secondly, how could a town founded in 1957 offer up any planning advice. Well, Page sits close to the Arizona-Utah border where the Glen Canyon Dam was constructed to create enormous Lake Powell. The city has a lot of insights to offer for…
If you follow other CI teacher's blogs you know that there is some great information out there about how to teach a novel. The very skilled are said to be able to teach a novel from day one. Sadly, I don't possess that particular talent. My approach is rather methodical but it has proven effective…
After visiting numerous pueblos, cliff dwellings, and ancient ruins in the Southwestern United States, it is clear to this retired urban planner that the Native Americans were the first great community planners in North America. The sites visited thus far include: Acoma Pueblo/Sky City, New Mexico (residents are still living here after 800+ years!) Atsinna…
I planned a non-traditional wedding ceremony in Savannah, GA and learned how to keep it personal, meaningful, and under budget.
Providing students with clear directions and easy-to-navigate content is especially important during distance learning.
If you feel like you don't have time each week for planning piano lessons, you're not alone. These tools, tips, and resources can help.
Personal finance is an exercise in mistake management more than the pursuit of perfection. Indeed, the best financial plans are like a patchwork of art with more character and visual appeal, not unlike the 500-year-old Japanese practice of kintsugi.
The above map is a revelation.
We had the privilege of visiting lovely Oak Park, Illinois over the Veterans Day weekend. As a planner, I was awestruck by this community and by the architectural masterpieces of it's famous former resident, Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout the Oak Park, I felt I was walking amidst the Promised Land for architects and urban planners.…
I gave myself until July to start thinking about planning our next school year. It’s July. I'm not really quite sure how that happened.
One of the top questions I receive is how to plan daily lessons in a Montessori homeschool preschool environment. In the preschool years, we generally do one lesson per day. HOWEVER, that's a Montessori 3-6 classroom practice that exists in part because there are 20+ kids to give individual lessons to each day, so there's…
Planning a wedding (in Paris) was easier than I thought. Here's what went right and what I'd change if I could.
How Differentiate Without Planning 30 Individual Lessons!, Teacher Idea #875 in the Digest of Ideas at TeacherIdea - Where Teachers Share Great
A personal story from a financial planner’s own family illustrates the importance of being prepared … and what happens when your parents aren’t.
This article houses my complete School Counseling Lessons with yearly outline and examples along the way! Believe me.... you don't want to miss out!
Over the past few months, we’ve shared some excellent UDL success stories from our readers (linked at the bottom of this post, in case you missed them). Today we want to put UDL success in the context of a more specific framework, with the help of a great book on UDL lesson planning. In Your […]
Discover 10 essential financial planning 101 tips for beginners that will set you on the right path with your money matters.
