Today, I would like to share a brief, lovely, and real story with a reminder that seeing and experiencing certain things in life changes young people's minds and has lifelong positive impacts on them and their contributions to society! There is this highly successful professor called Selcuk Sirin at New York University. He is originally from a village in northeast Turkey. Considering the limited resources and experiences in this small village, what he has accomplished in his

Today, I would like to introduce a great diversity self-assessment tool called Diversity Awareness Profile (DAP) to educational leaders. I used this tool for my own diversity self-assessment and I found it helpful for my own self-reflection and improvement efforts. I definitely recommend it to other educational leaders. Based on your score, the diversity profile matches you with one of the levels in Diversity Awareness Spectrum and offer guidance. These levels are as follows:

Happiness is finding happiness in the happiness of others. As Banks (2015) explains social justice, he emphasizes the importance of being reflective and moral in creating a democratic society where citizens are active contributors to a more human and just world. Banks also emphasizes the importance of teaching kids critiquing injustice in the world. Banks indicates that with the emphasis on high-stakes testing, educators and administrators had a narrow focus on basic academi

According to the World Economic Forum, "There is a growing disconnect between education systems and labor markets. Many of today’s children will work in new job types that do not yet exist.” One primary reason for this is the fact that the world is changing very rapidly during the fourth industrial revolution with exponential advancements in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, genetic engineering, quantum computing, virtu

During my interactions with local, national, and international K-12 educational leaders, I regularly see that almost all school leaders are working on being technology ready for the 2020 - 2021 school year. Accordingly, today I would like to share a great opportunity with my fellow educational leaders to attend and learn to be technology ready for the next school year. This event is called K-12 Technology Leaders Virtual Summit: Preparing for Next School Year. The event will

During this time of the pandemic, we have developed a hobby of fishing with my family since my son loves fishing, and it is a great outdoor activity with social distancing. A few days ago, our experience of fishing was quite funny. Very different than his usual character, my son was complaining about little things, and my wife was laughing at us. At some point, I had to ask him how we could have fun together when he gets upset about little things. You can see a picture of my